Roll Call 36

Yeah... the hospitals kept pushing that illness on me and I don't feel like I am. I don't recall doing anything or saying anything that would make them think "oh it's BPD". I've looked up the symptoms and it just doesn't fit.

So does dr Phil really think bipolar is less sick than sz....I mean mania with psychosis is supposed to be pretty intense....I don't know that more transient or at least more variable equates with less sick...

I'm not sure I could just rank them given the broad range of individuals....I mean what about elyn saks or Kay Jameson vs everyone else....

I'm not sure if it's just him or more confirmation of my theory that psychologists really don't get psychosis at all.

Yeah... the residential centers are no good. I have yet to hear anything "good" about residential centers they send your children to.

This. This is true. My psychologist just didn't listen to anything that I had to say that may be deemed 'psychotic'. She just didn't want to know. It ended up that all I could talk about was how I was feeling and not anything that was making me feel that way.

Actually thinking about it it reminds me of my parents asking if my doctor used the S word or not....like it was fine that I was hearing voices as long as it's not sz....

idk but dr phil i think what ert or atypical said - i forgot who - "minimized" his symptoms. the guy is clearly psychotic and clearly troubled. yes he has anger issues and is violent and has some drinking and i think drug issues but IF the guy is psychotic apart from all the substance abuse issues then i think it was more than "just bipolar" or whatever dr phil was puttig it as. dr phil stated it as "i dont think youre as sick as you think you are". to the guy. yea i forgot to mention the guy has substance abuse issues. which could be where his violence comes from. on the commercials and the beginning they made a big issues about how he was making weapons in his parents home.

My Current T did listen at first but then she was all have your meds been optimized?

He could just have drug induced psychosis too...some people go back to normal when they get clean.....

Part of me wishes I had seen the show but a bigger part worries that I would have thrown something at the screen at some key moment....

thats why i said "IF" he is psychotic apart from the drugs and drinkin. but yea. dr phil sent him to Origins. a dual diagnosis treatment facility in south padre island tx. where he practically sends everyone. the guy kept askig if he could smoke there.

but yea im very positive youll be able to see it on youtube within a week or two. someones bound to put it up

Omg I just called to see if my scripts were ready. The woman couldn't pronounce half of them. How do they work in that field...wtf.

I want caffeine so bad...

Dr. Phil.com

there's a preview of the episode on his website. so there's that.

lol she must be new. Hopefully you wont get a caffeine headache.

my macbook is electrocuting me!

Yeah, even the guy who had a show on lifetime promoting them has stopped and issued a public statement saying heal (an organization trying to get the abusive ones shut down) has educated him and he wont be sending any more teens to them.

Well I withdrew in the hospital. We only were allowed real coffee at breakfast.

She was nice. The generic for depakote is hard to pronounce. I got some diet root beer, it's my favorite soda.

I love root beer. Not sure if I'm happy or not that it's not caffeinated. I want to try diet root beer. What brand do you normally get?

Urg!

....my therapist and pdoc cannot agree on one dx.

I just get a & w. It's really good, at least imo.

Well hopefully they will soon.

I think the pdocs are better at dxing my T's haven't addressed it at all. Most important is what you relate to though....

Some brands do have caffeine though....like barqs....

Funny that I have to ask the pharmacist for psuedoephendrine pills. Good thing I didn't also buy drain cleaner and lysol.

You've mention you have DID... as far as I know of there's no medication for DID but for intensive therapy. Could it be that your Pdoc wants to push meds or something?

hmm, I didn't know barqs contained caffeine. We normally just get A&W or MUG

I only know because I'm avoiding caffiene....have been since I got sick...I found a great brand of cherry coke with no caffeine called sprechers it's made in Wisconsin....other than that and root beer I'm stuck with sprite...