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I think the ER can give you a short script until you get an appointment with someone else......

Thanks I might have to do that

I'm scared they'll try to take me to the psych ward tho

Thats my fear every time i goto the er

@junkDNA: I've gotten emergency refills before at the Minute Clinic at CVS before. It could be an option of last resort for you. They gave me a 90 day supply one time if I remember right.

Well I didn't get a Dx for like five years and even then they don't know for sure, some pdocs are really cautious about diagnosis because it can shape your life......

I was dxd with depression with psychosis from 13 to about 16 til i got schizoaffective. And then paranoid schiz at 21.

I would put that before the ER, so let's call it an option of second to last resort

Yes it can take a while to get it right.....

I took my meds

If i couldve done it differently, since im on ssdi and not ssi, i wouldve spent a portion of my disability backpay in the stock market and put a down payment on a house.

I got 10k backpay. Blown on a bunch of crap like a computer

I wish people around here were more careful about throwing out diagnosis. They really DO effect your life forever in ways you could never have imagined.
Avoid a mental health diagnosis as long as you can! Or let your pcp prescribe things that help under more "accepted" diagnosis such as depression or mood such and such. What really matters is that you get treatment that works for you. Don't let a diagnosis mess up something else you might need/want long term.
That goes for everyone - but obviously @cog especially

Um wow thats the stupidest thing i ever heard. Yea dont get diagnosed with any but depression because youre doing yourself a disservice.

Dont count me in that.

I'm getting a thyroid, basic mentalism, and vitamin D lab done, and they will send it to my Psychiatrist. Ill try to do that saturday. Also, I have to go into my psychiatrists office to sign a paper allowing another psychiatrist to look at my case.

Also, my roommate gave me a piece of paper with all the information on the labs (she's a nurse), and she also gave me a page about a study about schizophrenia and the brain that would be a 6 month study. I'd need to live I the clinic... Would they compensate by paying my rent portion? If they would then I might seriously do it.

First they do mri's and cognitive test, then they taper me off meds for a month and do further tests, and then they do whatever I want med wise to get me back up to speed. I can handle a month med free, it's just the Geodon withdrawal would be terrible.

Thats not what i said, and its not stupid. I know exactly what im talking about.
Diagnosis can prevent you from qualifying from certain medical treatments, insurances, grants, educational opportunities, military positions, jobs, promotions, housing opportunities...the list goes on. People should be informed of this, and they never are.

There are 1 in 4 or 5 people in the USA that deal with a mental illness and millions are actually diagnosed. To say “dont get diagnosed because you could mess your life up with a diagnosis” is really harmful advice to people.

I cried when the doc didn’t give me a diagnosis. I told her so. Having a label would actually make me feel better at this point. But. C’est la vie.

Also, a person on researchgate started to follow me who is studying the Jungian shadow in literature and the romantic rebellion. I link him to my chapter on the shadow that's on my blog, also recommending him to my study on the romantic rebellion. He goes to the university of Vienna.

Having a pre-existing condition might become a burden again if trump has his way. We've taken Obama care for granted in that it protects us with pre existeing conditions. The military doesn't want to give a person with an awful mental illness a gun either. Gretta makes some tough points.

She really doesnt. I knew all that already and i wouldnt trade my life in for a nice job or the like. This whole obamacare/trump thing is a moot point at this point in the year. Only thing we can try to do now is make sure something else doesnt crap on our healthcare and not vote trump in again.

I was just thinking about that too. I probably wouldnt ever have to work if i didnt want to. And not because im on disability.

Ok, look.

Me. Myself. I knew that stuff already. But I honestly believe people shouldnt be scared away from getting diagnoses that could help them. Not sure about your guys pdocs but diagnoses with my pdocs require certain medications. Not with all pdocs but some. And even then not all the time.

I just dont think people should be persuaded against certain diagnoses. That just leads to stigma that is already there and the climate of this nation is getting worse.

I can see both sides. Diagnosis can shape your future and might lead down wrong paths with treatment I can see that. But not getting a diagnosis can **** with you because the uncertainty.

I just feel lost like I’m literally crying right now I just wish I had something to tell me ‘this is what this is this is why you are the way you are’ the uncertainty kills me. I feel invalidated because I feel like to a point I wasn’t taken seriously.

I should be happy right now because I have a job offer and I have the right to medical care and I live in a happy home but I’m upset right now instead.

If the report she sends to my regular doctor is anything different than what she told me I’m honestly gonna be pissed. I feel like a rag doll just being shoved around and thrown away.

Sorry for my outburst but it really irks me when people say that. Its just feeding into the stigma and letting the stigma flow rampantly. We cant diagnose people on this forum so how come its ok to tell people dont get a certain diagnosis? Hypothetically.