The Forums › Forums › Most X-treme! › Most Hostile/Ignorant Thing I've Heard › It's a Two-Fer. And they're both pretty bad (sources are the reason) › Re: It's a Two-Fer. And they're both pretty bad (sources are the reason)
Oh yes, when a doctor acts more like a hound dog locked on a scent rather than a careful and studied detective, well then, you’ve got youreself a problem.
I’ve had a psychiatrist throw out a previous diagnosis before; he threw out Bipolar Disorder and diagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder (both wrong, ultimately, but in any case…). He also threw out my previous medication and started me on a new one, without any titration off of the first one or onto the second.
Result? I was a hectic, crazed, weepy, greasy-haired mess within 36 hours. Bad, bad stuff.
Doctors don’t always get it right. They are subject to stubbornness and ego, and even the best of them are subject to the fears I discussed previously.
My question now, having gone through all this – the misdiagnoses, the drugs that did more harm than good, the years spent in ignorance of my real problem(s), is what can be done to make sure this doesn’t keep happening?
How do we educate and alert (though not in a scary way, but more just, make aware) everyone, and the right everyones? I think this website, and their movies especially, are doing part of that work, but what more can be done so we don’t have stories like this?
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