[peace.love.starving]

What's ur name?
How many of you have been hospitalized?
How long did you stay?
When were you diagnosed?
What are your diagnoses?
How old r u?
Where r u from?
What are your meds?
I'm Rylie, I'm 15. I'm from kansas. I got diagnosed 2 months ago. I am diagnosed Bipolar 1, ADHD inattentive type, EDNOS, Dissociative Disorder NOS, social anxiety disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. I have been hospitalized twice. The first time it was for 8 days then the second time for 7 months. I just got out. I take 800 mg seroquel, 75 mg Zoloft, and 20 mg abilify.

I wanna hear about you guys (:

[BuggsBunny]

Rylie, as you hang around the forum, you will learn about the people. What you are asking is some very private information that many people may not want to tell someone new. Don't feel bad if you do not get many answers. You will learn about the people here bit by bit.
~Buggs

[peace.love.starving]

Oh ok I understand. Thanks for the tip.

[~Christina]

Welcome to PC !
I hope you find this forum as helpful as I do.

((( Hugs )))

[RapidFlyer]

I'll play to a certain extent:

Name Rapid Flyer
I have been hospitalized too many times to count
Sometimes a month to 5 weeks other times 3 to 5 days
The Appalachian Mountains
I don't watch TV
I take my meds as prescribed
I go to my Dr. most of the time when I am supposed to
I love PC

[bennetta]

Hi Riley and welcome to PC ! Im Bennetta and I joined PC last month. I know your gonna love it here because there are some caring and supportive people here. Im truly grateful I found this site . I m fifty yrs old and am from the North but moved to the South about 20 yrs ago. I ve been hospitalized twice and had my first episode at 16.

Hi Riley,

I'm Anika, I have been hospitalized too. I was first dx at 17 and then went through a ten year period of denial and was dx again at 27. I'm 33 now and I'm from Canada. I'm dx with bipolar 1 Psychosis NOS, Anorexia, and PTSD. Right now I'm taking Lithium, and tegretol, although my meds are usually in a constant state of change.

I hope to get to know you too, welcome to PC. I'm sure you will like it here.

[wing]

Hi Riley. I was diagnosed at 21 and was hospitalized 3x, the last two because I went off my meds. !st time 3 weeks, 2nd 1 wk, 3rd a month.

I have BP1 & social anxiety. I take Lamotrigine 200mg, Abilify 30mg and Xanax as needed.

I hope you find PC helpful and make lots of friends here!

[nacht]

Hi Riley, nice to meet you. I was diagnosed with BP1 when I was 24, and recently with social anxiety disorder as well. Yes, I've been hospitalized before. Right now I'm taking Lamictal, Abilify and Vistaril and hoping I can stay on them for a while.

I hope you enjoy your time here, there are a lot of excellent folks on these forums.

[Beebizzy]

Hi Riley, welcome to PC

I'm Beebizzy, 38, from Europe.

Diagnosed BP when I was 19. Hospitalised 4 times; first time for 2 weeks, second time for a month, third time for 3 months and last time for 3 weeks.

Currently taking Lamictal, Effexor, Trazodone and Seroquel.

BB

[venusss]

I am just wondering why do you want to know these. IMho, diagnoses, meds and hospitalizations tell little about people. There is much much much more to us.

[moremi]

Originally Posted by peace.love.starving

What's ur name?
How many of you have been hospitalized?
How long did you stay?
When were you diagnosed?
What are your diagnoses?
How old r u?
Where r u from?
What are your meds?
I'm Rylie, I'm 15. I'm from kansas. I got diagnosed 2 months ago. I am diagnosed Bipolar 1, ADHD inattentive type, EDNOS, Dissociative Disorder NOS, social anxiety disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder. I have been hospitalized twice. The first time it was for 8 days then the second time for 7 months. I just got out. I take 800 mg seroquel, 75 mg Zoloft, and 20 mg abilify.

I wanna hear about you guys (:

Hi Rylie, welcome.
My name is crystal im 33 from indiana. I was diagnosed bp1 3yrs ago also anxiety, agorophobia, bpd, ocd, add. Ive been hospitalized 3 times. I take zoloft 50mg, seroquel 300mg and tegretol 800mg. Hope you find the support you need here. Everyone is really nice.

[peace.love.starving]

Originally Posted by VenusHalley

I am just wondering why do you want to know these. IMho, diagnoses, meds and hospitalizations tell little about people. There is much much much more to us.

I understand there is. I just like to know the medical sides of things cause I wanna be a psychiatrist when I grow up

[cocoabeans]

What's ur name? Cocoabeans
been hospitalized? Never
When were you diagnosed? Around 19 or 20
What are your diagnoses? Bipolar
How old r u? 27
What are your meds? Lamictal, wellbutrin xl, seroquel

[Confusedinomicon]

As a doctor you should be more concerned with the individual as a whole. Their past history should not color the way you look at a person. (Which could happen if you place too much of a focus on their histories and make judgements about them based on that)

[peace.love.starving]

Originally Posted by Confusedinomicon

As a doctor you should be more concerned with the individual as a whole. Their past history should not color the way you look at a person. (Which could happen if you place too much of a focus on their histories and make judgements about them based on that)

Yeah I suppose I should. Thanks for the tip

[justaSeeker]

Originally Posted by Confusedinomicon

As a doctor you should be more concerned with the individual as a whole. Their past history should not color the way you look at a person. (Which could happen if you place too much of a focus on their histories and make judgements about them based on that)

In her training, I'm quite sure she will learn quite a bit about Past History; how to read and interpret such info, at least I would certainly hope so.

It's up to the patient how much one chooses to disclose. It's not to make a "judgement" against anyone. You could always just plainly state that you want to get their diagnosis first, before sharing that information with them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychiatric_history