My therapist kept pushing to find a psychiatrist who specializes in bipolar, I was honestly getting quite annoyed at this point and then I told her You’re a therapist not a psychiatrist then she told me her mother is a psychiatrist and she thinks I’m clearly bipolar I felt stupid at this point and then she began to rant about who has a full-blown erection throughout their whole psychosis.
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If you don’t like your therapist I would find a new one.
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I like her, she honest with me for the most part and doesn’t sugar coat things.
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Okay. Do you have a psychiatrist?
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Yes, but in the process of switching to a new one.
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Around here most psychiatrists deal with all severe mental health issues. They are trained to deal with anything. I don’t think it’s necessary to have one who specializes in 1 illness.
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Who cares if her mother is a psychiatrist?! She isnt!!
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There train here to deal with those type of severe illnesses too, it’s just my current psychiatrist wants to diagnose me based off my social standing.
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I don’t understand. Your pdoc wants to diagnose you on social standing? That doesn’t sound scientific. Are you sure that is true?
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She told me since I have no friends or girlfriend that she was leading towards schizophrenia but she also said if I get friends and get a girlfriend I would most likely get it a bipolar diagnosis.
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I think what my therapist was implying what she told the stuff I told her to her mother.
Maybe she’s trying to push you to socialize. Who knows!?
Anyway, if you don’t like your psychiatrist it’s good that you’re switching.
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She also forgot my family history with mental illness.
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I had a pdoc who wanted me to dive through a membrane in a swimming pool to reconstruct my birth.
There are some crazy pdocs out there 
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I’m laughing my ass off
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I have a partner and son. The schizophrenia diagnosis still stands.
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This sounds really unprofessional. A therapist shouldn’t push you to get on meds, they should at most suggest it and talk through your feelings on it.
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My therapist wasn’t pushing me to get on meds, she was pushing me to get a second opinion.
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I have had tons of people, therapists, and psychiatrists tell me that its Bipolar not schizophrenia. I had a lot of childhood trauma that could have led to worsened symptoms when I was younger, and it could be hormone related so it all more-so points to Bipolar. Also, not to jinx myself, but I dont experience hallucinations at all or that frequently.
I think if I went off them eventually I would downspiral…possibly. Bipolar can be just as bad if not worse than schizophrenia, its just a different illness. Its my recent diagnosis as well. Bipolar is why I cant take anti-depressants I was told and why Im so sensitive to medications. My mood can go to depression pretty quickly, or to super elevated energy where Im not sleeping…that aspect is more of what affects me than delusions or hallucinations…
I do feel like either the Bipolar or skizoaffective has impacted my learning and education. You just have to fight against it. Keep taking your medication, treating it and keep going on despite what people say.
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My dad was a boxer… y’all think I could take on Mike Tyson? 
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