Posted by kar on August 26, 2003, at 23:16:29
In reply to Re: A poll for everyone... out of curiosity., posted by MINNIEP on August 26, 2003, at 22:45:41
Initially, before i had a dx, I was searching for what could possibly be wrong. I had some wacky symptoms that were throwing everyone off. My mom (I was 16 at the time) had me from neurologist to endocrinologist to nutritionist to chiropractors...It was ceaselessly frustrated and scared to think that they'd never find out what what wrong. So in that sense, i feel that dx is very important. as a reassurance...as a justification. Wow! This crap I'm living with has a NAME??
After that it would have to be symptoms and dx. i'm w/ Sabina on that. There are certain things that my doc knows about treatment and research and typical behaviors of people who are bipolar. He can use that knowledge to treat me effectively. He's never seen me manicky. I havent' been manicky since I was 17. So he needs both bits of info about me and about the disease, to treat the "whole" me.
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