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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 168662" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Witz...I know where you are coming from and I understand that. Thankfully I can head that one off at the pass because of the bipolar. I just put up my hand and say "Bipolar"...lol. If I get a confused look I tell them the AD's send me manic and they get a knowing look...lmao. I tend to go in armed to the teeth with information though about what I have tried, what side effects I have had, what I cant take, what interacts with what I am on...etc. If a doctor cant respect that I know that I am a complicated case because I have overlapping problems...well they arent the doctor for me.</p><p></p><p>I do think that chronic pain does exacerbate depression. I know that when my pain levels are really out of control my depression is worse. And I also know that when my depression is worse, my pain is worse. One isnt causing the other but they do feed off each other. It also is completely unrealistic to expect a person who has been hit by a chronic illness not to have some depression over it. I mean good lord...who would be jumping for joy over it? I think it is normal to need some sort of help...be it medication or therapy to help deal with the changes that have happened to your life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 168662, member: 1514"] Witz...I know where you are coming from and I understand that. Thankfully I can head that one off at the pass because of the bipolar. I just put up my hand and say "Bipolar"...lol. If I get a confused look I tell them the AD's send me manic and they get a knowing look...lmao. I tend to go in armed to the teeth with information though about what I have tried, what side effects I have had, what I cant take, what interacts with what I am on...etc. If a doctor cant respect that I know that I am a complicated case because I have overlapping problems...well they arent the doctor for me. I do think that chronic pain does exacerbate depression. I know that when my pain levels are really out of control my depression is worse. And I also know that when my depression is worse, my pain is worse. One isnt causing the other but they do feed off each other. It also is completely unrealistic to expect a person who has been hit by a chronic illness not to have some depression over it. I mean good lord...who would be jumping for joy over it? I think it is normal to need some sort of help...be it medication or therapy to help deal with the changes that have happened to your life. [/QUOTE]
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