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Originally Posted by StayinAlive
Sounds like we both need to get more serious about helping the docs help us. Last time I brought a list of recent symptoms and just read it to him. That helped a lot.
It stinks that the organ we utilize to think and communicate with others about our problems is, largely, the problem.
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I need to start doing this too. I might ask for an overall reassessment with my pdoc because I leave so much out. I feel so pressured because of the 15 minutes I have. "How are you?" "Fine. Give me my drugs" or "Not ok. I may need more drugs." But it doesn't really get to the crux of anything. So far I'm being medicated as though I have some form of bipolar and yet my doctors are like, "Nah, just elements. Here's your antipsychotic. . . . Oh? Things have gotten worse? Now here's a mood stabilizer." Okay. . . .
I forget to tell my pdoc major things, though. My therapist pointed out that my symptoms/behaviors will magically disappear when it's time to see him, or I'll forget to tell him. Well, sometimes I forget and sometimes I'm afraid to. It's definitely time to keep lists and be honest with both of them.