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Old Jul 10, 2013, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by ~Christina View Post
This is what I know .. I deal with psychosis daily with or without an "episode present" .. why you ask ? Because I refuse to take an AP daily. I will use one PRN if I start to question whether my hallucinations visual and auditory are real.

My Pdoc and T and I have discussed and discussed whether its this or that. The decision was made jointly that I am just fine and dandy with a Bipolar I diagnosis., I mean, does it really matter ? and the answer for me is ... No it really doesnt.

I don't give a damn about who does what studies and whatever there criteria shows , They are just too busy arguing who is more right than the other.

Anyway , just my opinion as always.
For the record and for what it's worth -my personal, not-a-doctor opinion- there can be all kinds of co-morbid/additional stuff going on, which complicates things considerably, and which does not negate any bipolar diagnosis, just more/other crap to deal with. It's not like we're pure new-born babies who happen to have bipolar. We're complicated. I have my own issues, unrelated, but everything ends up affecting everything else to some extent or other, imo.