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Originally Posted by lawrenman
I'm guessing they figure my mood was a secondary condition.
That's why I questioned my bipolar illness to begin with. If I'm primarily a mood problem then why have 3 different doctors not put me on a mood stabilizer?
I hate to consider conspiracy but it seems doctors don't want to classify people as schizo anything but put them on antipsychotics anyway.
I'll admit everytime I've been hospitalized I've felt like the fruitest of them all. At least of the patients they had that week or two.
My guess is that the modern technique is to fight bipolar with AAP's. I've only been diagnosed three years ago. Either that OR they feel in my case the psychosis is the main issue and the mood portion is not.
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Yeah Pdocs wanna make sure before they toss labels and rightfully so !
BP and Schizo is tough to diagnose unless its a cut and dry slam diagnosis.
I have seen person after person be in a mixed episode here on PC and there true diagnosis be a blur because they are just flat all over the place. If you have tried a bunch of Ap's and AAP's and your not getting any help.... I would ask for a mood stabilizer... You need to level off.. I mean really what do you have to lose?
Lithium... yeah you need blood testing at first until your at good levels, yep some side effects but so does every other psych med. I took it for a couple years.
I just hate seeing so many people just flipped onto a AP so fast..
I hope you find something that allows you to feel better
