the nurse during my injection today had me go over my symptoms of what I thought was mania and I told her and she said its not enough symptoms to match mania.
my partner said I’m acting more like the person she fell in love with. which kind of offended me cause I thought she was still in love with me as I was but she said that’s not what she meant. she said she wants to prove to her parents that i’m a good person when i’m properly medicated and back to my old self.
I am not sure a nurse could give that kind of indication concretely…i would heed my psychiatrists diagnosis foremost
hey,
Had a mate who was a psych nurse. He was pretty switched on and spent more time with patients than the doctors.
It’s like anything. A good psych nurse knows some stuff just as a good shrink knows how to read people and symptoms.
Yeah listen to your shrink…but a nurse is a part of your treatment team and they often know some things!
Rogueone.
i see my doctor on the 11th of July its the soonest I could get an appointment. unless I go through my therapist. she sometimes can get me in to see him sooner. but he’s still on vacation. he left the state for a wedding
hey,
perspective is important and others may have a different view.
We all change through the course of our illness. In an overworked health system our needs are often on the backburner…I see my shrink for ten minutes every six weeks. It’s important to be focused when you see your psydoc over here! And he is very, very good!
Rogueone.
I have no complaints about my pdoc. he is a very good doctor. usually he makes time to see me if i’m having trouble. but he can’t help being out of town so I just wait until the 11th. if I am truly having a hard time I can see the clinical nurse but she is harder to get an appointment with.
This can be true . We can also be perceived to have changed when coming under the scrutiny of a new pdoc;whether we have or not.
Estimations of how we are should be objective but invariably subjective professional biases are thrown into the mix to a large degree.
Don’t wish for mania, if the nurse says no then maybe you’re hypomanic. Either way I’m glad to hear that you’re feeling good
I once thought I had mania but it turned out to be a drug reaction.