I went to therapy yesterday after work, I didn't feel like attending my usual Monday session and he dropped the news that he doesn't think I am any sort of Bipolar. He thinks I have a bad case of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, PTSD, and Treatment Resistant Depression since the only thing that has worked for my depression is Seroquel. He says I don't cycle like someone with Bipolar. He says while you shop you haven't wracked yourself into debt, I do talk fast but everyone on my father's side of the family does talk fast.
I honestly don't know how I feel, I know it's a subjective diagnosis and my doctor has my diagnosis as Mood Disorder NOS, he thinks that since I had such a bad reaction to antidepressants that it was probably Bipolar but he's never officially diagnosised me with it either. The only person that has diagnosised me as Bipolar 2 was my first therapist and she was sure of her diagnosis.
I don't have a Pdoc and the one PsychNP I saw basically shoved Latuda in my hand and left the room, she didn't even ask questions and the other PsychNP I saw before her asked if I was moody and shoved Lamictal at me and told me to stop taking the Effexor, she didn't tell me to taper or anything. Then the next day I had a panic attack and saw her again and she shoved Zyprexa at me.
My PA friend doesn't see the signs of Bipolar either, he's really steamed that nobody told me to tapper the Effexor and refused to take me off a medication that made me gain 20 pounds in 2 weeks, he thinks the Zyprexa is the reason I now have Metabolic Syndrome and how she acted towards me is not how anyone should diagnosis Bipolar. He wishes I would have reported the first NP to her supervising physician.
I honestly don't know how I feel about this, anyone have advice?
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Depression
Symptoms of PTSD
Trintellix 10mg once daily
Buspar 10mg three times daily
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