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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 637333" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Well, HLM, it's horrible because there is no way to verify a diagnosis. Now, even without a psychiatrist I know I get incredibly depressed without an antidepressant. I really didn't need anyone to diagnose me for me to know this...but I DID go to a psychiatrist (in fact I admitted myself to a hospital) because I was suicidal and depressed enough that I needed medication. That was and still is one thing I needed the good doctor for...I can't get medication without a doctor.</p><p></p><p>Yet it still took me at least ten years to find a medication that didn't only work 50% and basically keep me from falling completely. It took forever for one to actually work about 85%. Now I can live a good life. Before that, I really didn't. Why? Because we are being guinea pigs for these doctors. They have no idea what to give us so they throw medications at us and hope one sticks. Now ECT is becoming popular again. THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO. What is particularly scary, especially in retrospect, is diagnosing children with everything from ADHD to bipolar disorder, both of which can not be proven by a blood test and both which are treated with medication. "Oh...he is crabby and inattentive. ADHD for sure! The Connors test says so!" And a script is handed over for some stimulant. "Oh, there is raging? Bipolar!" Another script is written. For children.</p><p></p><p>My lovely son Sonic was put on bipolar medications until hubby and I said, "Enough! He is not bipolar!"</p><p></p><p>The psychiatrist didn't believe it, even when he improved off of the medications and did well in autism interventions. He probably doesn't believe it to this day. He told me, "He can't be on the autism spectrum because he can be in a room alone without you and not freak out." WTH????? A lot of autistic kids, unless they are extremely low functioning, can be alone. This psychiatristi, this medical doctor, did not understand Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). So he called it bipolar. Later, I talked to quite a few people whose kids were going to Dr. G. Dr. G. diagnosed almost all of them with bipolar. Back then it was "the flavor of the month." I think they still have a tendancy to over-daignose bipolar disorder in children AND adults. My first diagnosis was manic-depression before it was called bipolar 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Now, I may have had two hypo-manic episodes, but mainly I just got very depressed. Am I bipolar? They tried mood stabilizers on me and I quit them as they made me feel dead and didn't help my depression at all.</p><p></p><p>The world of psychiatry still has a long way to go to become an exact science. Anyhow, that has been my experience and is my opinion. If I weren't so interested in these mental health issues myself, I could have easily been put on ten medications and be a drooling idiot at this moment. Many patients trust their doctors implicitly. And in psychiatry, often they disappoint.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 637333, member: 1550"] Well, HLM, it's horrible because there is no way to verify a diagnosis. Now, even without a psychiatrist I know I get incredibly depressed without an antidepressant. I really didn't need anyone to diagnose me for me to know this...but I DID go to a psychiatrist (in fact I admitted myself to a hospital) because I was suicidal and depressed enough that I needed medication. That was and still is one thing I needed the good doctor for...I can't get medication without a doctor. Yet it still took me at least ten years to find a medication that didn't only work 50% and basically keep me from falling completely. It took forever for one to actually work about 85%. Now I can live a good life. Before that, I really didn't. Why? Because we are being guinea pigs for these doctors. They have no idea what to give us so they throw medications at us and hope one sticks. Now ECT is becoming popular again. THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO. What is particularly scary, especially in retrospect, is diagnosing children with everything from ADHD to bipolar disorder, both of which can not be proven by a blood test and both which are treated with medication. "Oh...he is crabby and inattentive. ADHD for sure! The Connors test says so!" And a script is handed over for some stimulant. "Oh, there is raging? Bipolar!" Another script is written. For children. My lovely son Sonic was put on bipolar medications until hubby and I said, "Enough! He is not bipolar!" The psychiatrist didn't believe it, even when he improved off of the medications and did well in autism interventions. He probably doesn't believe it to this day. He told me, "He can't be on the autism spectrum because he can be in a room alone without you and not freak out." WTH????? A lot of autistic kids, unless they are extremely low functioning, can be alone. This psychiatristi, this medical doctor, did not understand Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). So he called it bipolar. Later, I talked to quite a few people whose kids were going to Dr. G. Dr. G. diagnosed almost all of them with bipolar. Back then it was "the flavor of the month." I think they still have a tendancy to over-daignose bipolar disorder in children AND adults. My first diagnosis was manic-depression before it was called bipolar 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Now, I may have had two hypo-manic episodes, but mainly I just got very depressed. Am I bipolar? They tried mood stabilizers on me and I quit them as they made me feel dead and didn't help my depression at all. The world of psychiatry still has a long way to go to become an exact science. Anyhow, that has been my experience and is my opinion. If I weren't so interested in these mental health issues myself, I could have easily been put on ten medications and be a drooling idiot at this moment. Many patients trust their doctors implicitly. And in psychiatry, often they disappoint. [/QUOTE]
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