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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
Hi Atypical! 
Glad you're out of IP. Hope it wasn't too bad of a stay. I was surprised to hear that they've changed your diagnosis again. Seems they can't make up their minds! How do you feel about it? I know you've struggled identifying mood symptoms in the past. Do they think you're manic a lot to explain the psychosis?
Anyway, it's nice to see you. I haven't been on PC for a while.
Take care 
*Willow* |
My diagnosis has been changing between schizophrenia, schizoaffective, and bipolar type 1 for years just because I am a very atypical case. However, I've been studying bipolar and how mania presents and yes, I do believe that diagnosis is an accurate one. Schizophrenia/schizoaffective never made sense for a few reasons, that I am honestly too tired to go into at this point.
And yes, they do believe that just the fact that I've been manic so ****ing often that it does explain why I've been having so many issues with psychosis. It's a long story, but the gist of it is that undiagnosed mania literally explains everything that's gone wrong in my life and why it's just... destroyed, at this point. I'm not being dramatic. My life is in ruins. Sighs.
It wasn't the best stay ever. My "psychiatrist" in charge of my case tried to say I have some physical condition making my symptoms worse when that condition was ruled out months ago. He would have known that had he actually read my chart. What an idiot.
But, I have a tip to people who may end up IP:
When you want to say "**** you", replace that with, "okay, great!" and they let you out a lot faster.
