View Single Post
 
Old Mar 26, 2014, 07:59 AM
Nammu's Avatar
Nammu Nammu is offline
Crone
 
Member Since: May 2010
Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system.
Posts: 76,760
I suspect the professionals in your life are waiting to see how you respond to being clean and off meds for a while before giving you any kind of a new diagnosis if any. You are extremely lucky to have such good doctors who aren't content to just keep on with the drugs & label.

I have the BPII diagnosis but now that I've been off anti depressants for years and I have never again had a manic episode but the doctors here do not want to deal with changing it. They just decided to just downgrade it to BPII even though I started out with a PTSD/major depression diagnosis and did not get manic until after they put me on the antidepressants. After starting the antidepressants my life became hell with multiple hospitalizations and the label BPI. A couple of years ago I was given trazadone for sleep, they didn't tell me it was an antidepressant even though I had told them I could not take any antidepressants. I ended back up in the hospital, where they tried to put me on mutiple psych drugs. It was only the intervention of my T that got me out without getting put back onto that crazy drug merry go round.

I'd say your doctors are real professionals and not to worry too much about a label. You are who you always have been, just free of drugs and meds.
__________________
Nammu
…Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …...
Desiderata Max Ehrmann



Hugs from:
manicplanet
Thanks for this!
manicplanet