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Old Aug 12, 2014, 11:58 PM
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Originally Posted by vans1974 View Post
I like what one psychologist said, "Who cares what the diagnosis is, just treat the present symptoms, because typically people tend to act out their diagnosis."
Thanks for saying this. This is kind of the way my general practitioner MD is, too. When I asked her for a diagnosis of whether I was bipolar or not, she said she isn't a psychiatrist and she doesn't like to label people with a diagnosis [I suspect that she meant this specifically for mental health conditions]. She prescribed meds for my symptoms, and these meds are commonly prescribed for bipolar. I live in too small of a community for a pdoc (psychiatrist), and I am fortunate to have her because even MDs here are scarce here and few accept new patients. So I don't have a formal bipolar diagnosis either. But her latest prescription has been helping reduce my symptoms and that is what I need the most.