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Originally Posted by Hexagram
That sounds sketchy. The highly-trained, licensed professional trusted to diagnose and treat your illness has 'become confused' and has left you, the patient, to choose between two significantly different diagnoses. Any chance of soliciting a second professional opinion?
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He is meant to be very good, he is extremely intelligent and I think he is just following protocol for a BPD patient, and also sticking strongly to focusing on patient compliance and reducing suicide risk, however me being vegged out on risperidone is hardly going to help me in the long run.
He says he does not know which one yet.
What has made me lose faith in him is he told me last session "you have a psychosis" I DONT HAVE ONE. I dont believe anyone is out to get me I dont see or hear things etc.
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Originally Posted by r010159
Get another pdoc.
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Yep I have been told this enough to go do it but I dont think any doctor wants a BPD patient. I do have someone in mind though who I will get a second opinion from.
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Originally Posted by Gray Rider
psychosis from what drugs? did psychosis show up before or after elevated mood or manic symptoms? were you paranoid or delusional?
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An anabolic steroid, the psychosis showed up after MDD, it came on from me reading past chat logs and developping a false recollection of past events in my life. I couldnt concerntrate was stuck in bed thinking I was dying, calling ambulances and such and they would not admit me until my sister bought me to hospital and said I said I was dying and some other stupid crap. So I got schedualed for suicidality after 2 months of full blown MDD.
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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom
There's also scizoaffective disorder.
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Which shows up in childhood I think?
I really dont think I am schizoaffective, I was highly social and outgoing all my life through to my 20s.
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Originally Posted by Supanova
Go for the second opinion but remember it does take more than one session to be diagnosed correctly. Are you in therapy too? We can get up to 12 medicare covered psychology sessions a year. It could really help you out.
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I had 20 sessions with an associate professor of psychology it was at around the 18th session I became psychotic. He ended up needing some group therapy because of me and a better understanding of BPD.
All those sessions were spent with me learning about psychology and him reassuring all I had the matter with me was anxiety.