Thread: Can a psychiatrist diagnose bipolar disorder in an hour?
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Old Nov 02, 2015, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by BastetsMuse View Post
If there's a bunch of symptoms that the psychiatrist is looking at the scream "bipolar," sure he can diagnose it in an hour -- or less. That's what happened to me. It was accurate.... and that was over twenty years ago now.

I guess you were lucky. Because my symptoms didn't scream "bipolar" so he was not able to "correctly" diagnose me in an hour--or less. This was in 2012. He dx me with adjustment disorder gave me AD med (Celexa). After I became manic from the AD....I had a lot of mania fun---shopping, partying and staying up all night, getting behind in bills, starting projects and never finishing them, grandiose thinking etc. I ended up in another docs office after a friend sat me down and point out things they noticed that was not like me. So I went to another doc, walked in manic and they told me to stop taking the Celexa. I was given a mood stabilizer and went from there but it wasn't in an hour.

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