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Old Dec 07, 2006, 04:57 PM
Anonymous29319
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If this was me I would be giving it to both my family physician and my therapy professional.

1. I know that they would both read what I wrote and address those issues that were there that dealt with their area of expertise

2. my family physican cant rule out possible medical problems like anemia, cancer, ulcers, tumors and so on if he does not know what my symptoms are. I made this mistake back in 2002 when I thought all my symptoms were depression,PTSD, DID and eating disorder problems. Finally after months of being tired and a majority of the symptoms that you have discribed my therapist made an appointment for me with my family physician and told me that if she called up there and I was not in the waiting room a half hour before my appointment she was going to come to my home, pick me up and drive me to the appointment. I went and after all the testing was done it turned out that I had MALT Lymphoma (cancer). Now I dont keep anything from my family physican - if Im tired he knows about it, if I am sleeping too much too little and what ever other symptoms regardless of where I believe they are coming from he knows about it.

3. my therapy professional and my physicain are both part of my treatment team. A treatment team is any professional that a client is seeing be it mental or medical. And none of them can help me if tyhey don't know the complete situation of what ALL my symptoms and problems are. If I want the best treatment that they can offer it is up to me to be completely 100% honest with ALL of them.

Hang in there.