Re: How do I know if I am diagnosed correctly? Depression/ADD or Bipolar??

[Anonymous]

Sam,

I wish I could say something helpful to you, but I feel I would need to be close to you physically, or at least in contact, on a daily basis over a longer period before I could really have a properly based opinion about how to change your situation.

I am writing anyway because I need to say something to DrTim.

But Sam, I wish you the very best of Luck in the future!

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DrTim,

what you say in the second last text block is so close to precisely how I experience these things. It’s simply just so great to see one other person who has the same thoughts, and even some experience to back it up!

One thing though: You’re right of course, when you say: “You need to keep yourself informed and ask yourself if what you are doing is helping you”, but there is a “but” and it is this: Not all people have the intellect necessary to do this. I suspect you must know this, and I can definitely say that I have plenty of experience to back my statement up because I’ve suffered from a tendency to try and get all and everybody around me to do just that: Keeping themselves informed and asking themselves if what they’re doing is helping themselves or not”.

But I want to emphasize that everything you wrote was great to read, and it gives me a renewed feeling that I’m right about these things (which you say in your text).

I really, really hope it can be helpful to others.

I’m not saying nobody should be on medication or even that just few should be so. But I find it important that as many options as possible are addressed, because we do tend to focus on what we hear or read from others. After all we do live in a world of consensus, and at the same time it’s just as certain that no two persons are exactly the same (just take a look in the various threats about different medications and see how different the individual experiences are. It’s rather amazing, really).

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