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Originally Posted by Soupe du jour
I'm glad you got the other psychiatrist opinion. It can be dangerous when a mental health professional makes rash diagnoses.
All of my psychiatrists and therapists always concluded pretty quickly that I have bipolar type 1. However, I remember a particular Ph.D. psychologist (therapist), upon first meeting me telling me "I am going to make my own diagnosis of you!", after I told her I have bipolar type 1. After all I had been through, such a statement really got on my nerves. At the end of that first (and only) session she declared that I do in fact have bipolar type 1. Again, what went through my mind was great annoyance. If she had told me something different, I would have wanted to give her the finger.
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Oh wow, that would get on my nerves too! And yeah, every other doctor, even psychologists I encountered, concluded I have bipolar, so it was a little disorienting. But when I took into consideration that she saw me for such a short period of time and only ever asked me questions about the depression, it made sense that she would think it was depression. It was... at that particular time. And I was in such a deep depression at that point that it was hard for me to articulate a lot of things.