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Old Feb 23, 2014, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Genesis2100 View Post
I was just asking for opinions, as I know nothing I say on here can magically give me a diagnosis. And yes I'm going to be honest on the eval, but I just don't see how coloring in circles on a test is going to help me any.
So there are all flavors of something called psychosis but there are arbitrary rules that make one disease vs the next in the dsm...given that you are having delusions you probably qualify for one of them and the questionnaire should be able to ID which one....even if it's not something defined they can give you psychosis NOS or now even mental illness NOS. The reality is there is no medical science marking the distinction between mental illnesses two people can get the same gene and one may end up bipolar and the other sz. Also the diagnoses aren't static and as you change and perhaps move to another doctor you're likely to get another opinion and another diagnosis. The main thing to realize is that delusions are a form of psychosis and what works for that best are antipsychotics...that's the main point of a diagnosis is knowing which drugs to treat you with and since you're already on abilify I'm not sure what filling in a bunch of circles is going to do either....it's not something I did because I was pretty obviously crazy so it wasn't needed.
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