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Originally Posted by vans1974
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."
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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.