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Originally Posted by angelicgoldfish05
In all truth, I think that symptoms often overlap with different diagnoses, but for insurance purposes, the doc has to diagnose something.
In your case, it sounds like you think it may be more depression only as you say you haven't experienced a hypomanic episode. And then you're med you are on now is making you feel more depressed? That sounds awful and I'm sorry to hear that your doc is too busy to help you with getting on a correct med that will help and an accurate diagnosis.
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I agree with the overlapping symptoms observation. For me it is difficult to grasp because depression comes with irritability, anger, hopelessness, sadness, tears, etc. How do they figure it is "manic depressive" and I am having a "hypomanic" episode when I am going through a small period of irritability, versus calling it a symptom of depression?
I am going to see my doctor about removing Depakote from my regimen. I tried Lamictal for a couple months and that's when I recall feeling the best in terms of depression, so I'll give it a try again. Eventually I may just have to find a new pDoc, even though I love my current one.
