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Berries · Jan 04, 2009, 03:45 PM

Actually, I am not doing all that well. Part of it is doubting I’m ill.
In theory, I agree with both of you, DXs are really meant for pdocs & Ts to communicate with ea. other and insurance companies. And that everyone presents differently, even within the same disorder.
But at the moment, I really need to figure out if I actually had & have a severe, chronic, debilitating mental illness. It’s a long and complicated story, but basically it involves my suicide if I don’t have a S,C,D mental disorder. Part of it is exactly what DX I have.
I need to know. I have to know. And hopefully, the answer will reassure me and help me get to a better place, so I can stay alive and move ahead with my life.
Thank you, Kate & Madisgram. You did help!! You are right, I’ll pose it in a way that makes him feel “in charge”. And I will bring in my journal with a page devoted to my concern and why. It also has lists of symptoms in it that I could show him if he asks. Maybe, I could just ask if we talk about my concern first and then discuss the med change he wants to talk about? That’s fair, right? He works for me, right?
I wish like hell, I’d never told him what other pdocs have said, because he is my only option—nobody else in this town I moved to takes Medicare/Medicaid!!!
Thanks Gals!