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This disorder is such in 2015 that only a little bit is known about it. Hell, scientists don't even know how many of our medications even work. A lot of it is simply 'pin the tail on the donkey'. I had an azzhole egotistical psych that bombed me just to see what stuck. It wasn't an 'educated' guess, it was throwing darts at a target painted on the side of a barn. It did't work. I lost 9mos in a severe fog: couldn't drive for that period of time, lost 40lbs, anxiety through the roof and I spent my days circling my dining room table with my fingers in my hair cursing. I was terribly scared. My wife was scared. My friends were scared. At one point I asked him if I were dying.
But he wouldn't listen...he knew it all. At that point I fired him. I found a female psych that didn't have the ego associated with a penis. She brought me down to functionality again, then we started back up -slowly- to see what worked. 4yrs later I'm still on the same successful med combo, and with my therapists help, have been stable..
The entire process of bipolar treatment is all a guessing game. Its impossible to figure out how a particular psych will treat you until you're invested in them for awhile. There are no reliable report cards anywhere to reference their style. The diploma they proudly display on the wall tells you nothing about them except their taste in frames.
'Professionals' misdiagnosed me for 30yrs after I started reaching out for help in 1982. Psychs are representative of the general population too: there are lazy ones, indifferent ones, ones just looking for a paycheck, dirty ones that take Big Pharma money to push meds, ones that believe in tough love, kind ones and ones that believe the individual is a valuable resource in their own treatment, and should be listened to.
Its distasteful. At the time you need a 'professional' to help you during a dysfunctional and terrifying period of your life, you still have to have your wits about you and have your guard up to protect yourself from them doing something stupid...and sometimes very harmful.
Last edited by Chickenkicker; Jul 30, 2015 at 03:22 PM.
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