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Old Jan 08, 2017, 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by elevatedsoul View Post
scared of being schizophrenic

if i was schizophrenic why haven't they figured it out yet... geez...
why doesn't the meds seem to help...
heres a suggestion that may help.. print of your posts and give them to your treatment providers. this way they can answer all these questions like what your mental disorders are from the last diagnostic evaluation you had, and how and where your problems got those diagnoses fit for you rather than diagnosing you with all these other things you are researching and trying to figure out if you have them.

to answer your question based on my own location sometimes a person has a mental disorder but it takes a long time to get the right medication, the right dosages, or combination of medications that will work....

example I know someone with schizophrenia, it took their treatment providers almost 10 years to get the right medications. one of the problems they were having is because that person was doing research online about so many things that the treatment providers were trying to match the meds with things the person did not have (the person had self diagnosed their self with anxiety and depression disorders and was telling their treatment provider their problems were the depression anxiety symptoms they were reading about so of course if someone goes in to their doctor and says something like Im so sad I cant get out of bed in the morning rather than telling about their hallucinations they will get the wrong meds. )

see what I mean it may be that all this research you are doing on all kinds of stuff is causing your own actual problems to get pushed to the side and this mish mash of symptoms that may be this or may be that keeps getting the treatment providers attention...

but if you print of your posts, and give them to your treatment provider they can actually read your well thought out and organized posts in the same frame of mind that its happening to you. kind of like keeping a journal helps a therapist to understand what someones whole problems are better sometimes.
Thanks for this!
elevatedsoul