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Old Mar 10, 2025, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Blue_Bird View Post
I think polypharmacy is too common. Also a lot of times diagnosing isn’t done thoroughly enough. I have been in mental health care since I was 14 years old and not once even despite knowing how I grew up did anyone ever mention the possibility of PTSD and I brought it up to my psychiatrist last week, now at 30 years old almost 31, and he was like yeah that makes a lot of sense and also explains why we have more difficulty than usual controlling my other symptoms with meds and he diagnosed it. And my therapist started EMDR with me several months ago and immediately asked about trauma when we started working together. I swear some doctors just slap the first diagnosis that comes to mind and don’t investigate further. Like sometimes there’s additional stuff going on that could be contributing to difficulties. Meds can’t solve everything. Therapy is important too
So agree. My first diagnosis was ptsd and depression. Even after being flagrantly manic they stuck to the depression diagnosis and kept putting me on AD. I couldn’t work on the ptsd with all the side effects from the drugs. I took myself off all drugs and just worked with a T to deal with the ptsd. That helped a lot until I had a severe episode and had to go back on meds. But with me controlling how many.
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