[jbuttz]

Title says it all. I have one in an hour and a half. I can't lie, I am pretty nervous and want to bail but I did this for myself. I wanted this all along so I need to ride it through. I'm nervous but also happy. Hopefully I can have some closure after this. I've never been, does anyone know what I can expect?

[kecanoe]

I found assessment pretty interesting. I did a bunch of written stuff including the kind where you fill in little bubbles. Then I did a face to face where I did the Rorchach test (I'd heard of it but never done it) one where you looked at pictures and told a story, one where I drew some pictures. The main thing to remember is to just be yourself, after all it is you that you want to learn about.

I think the testers know that most people are nervous. How could you not be?

[Mygrandjourney]

Let us know how it went for you. It may take a couple sessions to complete the whole thing and then a couple more weeks to get the results.

[jbuttz]

Originally Posted by Mygrandjourney

Let us know how it went for you. It may take a couple sessions to complete the whole thing and then a couple more weeks to get the results.

It went pretty good! I went there with depression, anxiety, irritability, paranoia and thoughts of being possibly bi polar 2. He told me to just slow it down. The factors in my life are trying to find an antidepressant that works, and fix the destruction that anxiety causes me. I've been on 2 different antidepressants that don't seem to work for both depression or anxiety. He wants to help with my anxiety because he believes that's the biggest impact so far. If all else fails then maybe the diagnosis of bp2 will come but until then, just try fixing one thing at a time.

[kecanoe]

Originally Posted by jbuttz

It went pretty good! I went there with depression, anxiety, irritability, paranoia and thoughts of being possibly bi polar 2. He told me to just slow it down. The factors in my life are trying to find an antidepressant that works, and fix the destruction that anxiety causes me. I've been on 2 different antidepressants that don't seem to work for both depression or anxiety. He wants to help with my anxiety because he believes that's the biggest impact so far. If all else fails then maybe the diagnosis of bp2 will come but until then, just try fixing one thing at a time.

That seems like a good outcome to me. Are you satisfied/ok with addressing the anxiety and then reevaluating?

[ChavInAHat]

Originally Posted by jbuttz

It went pretty good! I went there with depression, anxiety, irritability, paranoia and thoughts of being possibly bi polar 2. He told me to just slow it down. The factors in my life are trying to find an antidepressant that works, and fix the destruction that anxiety causes me. I've been on 2 different antidepressants that don't seem to work for both depression or anxiety. He wants to help with my anxiety because he believes that's the biggest impact so far. If all else fails then maybe the diagnosis of bp2 will come but until then, just try fixing one thing at a time.

Glad you thought it went pretty good.

Are you happy with the outcome?

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[jbuttz]

I'm satisfied with it. I know from one meeting that he can't properly say that I have bipolar 2. I want to work on the obvious like the anxiety and depression during that time if I'm not responding to antidepressants and there are more noticeable symptoms then I'm comfortable with moving toward the bp2 diagnosis.