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It is very tragic of course. As for the diagnosis, unfortunately, their is an average of 8 years between first being seen by a mental health practitioner and being diagnosed with bipolar. It's most likely to be diagnosed as depression and schizophrenia and that will lead to the wrong meds. It's hard to say that that it is the pdoc's fault though.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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