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Originally Posted by eclogite
TOTALLY understand where you're coming from. You're right - therapy and meds should work on the symptoms, not the label. As far as I'm concerned (because I'm so wise and all - haha), diagnoses should only be used for reporting to insurance companies.
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Except the bipolar diagnosis can preclude use of certain meds that could help straight depression but set off mania in someone with bipolar disorder, so the diagnosis can be significant to medication treatment. That said, the OP's meds sound very in line with bipolar med treatment. It might be a case where the pdoc is still in the phase of ruling out a bipolar diagnosis. That can take awhile.