Does a diagnosis really help?

Thanks for sharing @Peter_Pan78
Has this diagnosis of bipolar changed your treatment?

Loulatthecat,

Sorry to read that you feel a bit yuck about your diagnosis.

On a positive note, a diagnosis means you can use tried and tested methods of support while you manage your day to day life 🙂 So i hope that you can maybe find this aswell " oh thank goodness, now i get get some better control or understanding"

i hope this helps- just a suggestion

Baboo

The failure, freak, abnormal words have beem floating around in our culture for a while .. its hard to get rid of them.

Please dont accept them as the same thing as a MI vulnerability which may or may not last.... also note that medical facts have changed a lot over the years ...

Good Luck

I hope it works out as @Baboo suggested.

Personally, I am in the camp where a diagnosis is not actually helpful. Let me explain that one. Thus far all of my diagnosis have been different from each other. How could they be otherwise, when you present to an ER depatment and have maybe 10-20 minutes with a clinical psychiatrist or one of their students? So for me, there is no cohesion to my diagnosis and personally I feel reticent to ever seek out such services again, regardless of how low I may get in the future.

I am taking med's for my symptoms, which are working to an extent and I practice Mindfullness techniques as much as that can assist me in my daily life. The real work is being done within me, by not accepting my life-challenges as molding who I am, just accepting they are a part of me and that I can actually live a full and rich life if I seek it out. I'm not there yet, but I'm heading off down the road to it, with a definite tiddly-pom to my step!

I view a diagnosis as a label or badge for the clinicians to make their tasks easier, not as something for us to hang our hats upon. Others will without doubt have different experiences, as it is a very subjective topic/answer that will be drawn out from each of us really.

aye aye @Pooh_bear

My skepticism re diagnoses is due to many experiences and observationsw of many people over a few decades ... I think it is good the way you described it as making the doctors' jobs easier without ... blowing it up into acceptance or denial issues......boo to the dualist thinkers ... there is a middle path ... oops I am sounding a bit mahayana now ... and am mindful I may be preaching ... lol

@Appleblossom A few decades of diagnosis! Wow! My patience would have run out long ago. For me, it's been over a few years and 7 or 8 labels thus far. I'm more focused on what the symptoms are and how I can live with that, or even move beyond them, if possible.

I try not to be partisan to any cause or thoughts, as my Nana taught me long, long ago, there is always a bigger picture. Not that she was a Buddhist, she was much more a Bohemian!