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ultramar · Jul 10, 2013, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ~Christina

I think it's too early in my opinion for pdocs to put more labels on him. All these "diagnosis will follow him around possibly for life, it could effect school, college, loan applications, health insurance of course , life insurance policies .. oh the list goes on .... I am really happy my Pdoc isn't all about tossing label after label after label at me . If he was that type I would fire him and find a new one.

I think most people can have episodes of Mania with out it going into Psychosis.

I agree, and I'm glad my pdoc isn't like that either. I feel like the more the diagnoses, the more every thought, emotion and action is going to be attributed to one diagnosis or another, without leaving much room for just being a kid/person/human being outside of all of these labels.

Can he get a full neuropsych exam, to try to definitively narrow things down? Why do the new pdocs not get the old records? I think seeing a series of pdocs (and I'm not saying this is anyone's fault) kind of lends itself to getting lots of diagnoses. Because some may disagree with each other, but instead of getting rid of and replacing, what ends up happening sometimes -as I've seen in some cases- is that they just stack up, one added to another, even if there ends up being contradiction and/or overlap.

Is there any way he can get one of these 3-4 hr neuropsych exams and then be able to stay with the same pdoc after that for an extended period of time (assuming you find a pdoc who agrees with the exam, as no agreeing would just muddy things further)?

I can't imagine going through what you do, and with all that you and your husband also struggle with. My 2 cents (and it's mostly my gut speaking) is that there really can be too many diagnoses. How do you medicate, for example, co-existing conditions with completely different symptoms? It seems to me that meds for one thing, may -in theory- make something else worse.