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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know what she thinks  you'd be able to find out what with you not being a psychologist, not being her daughter's psychologist, you not having access to any of the test results being run on her daughter, and you not being a professional psychiatric disorder researcher.  Your posting on a message board to get opinions from CPA's and stay at home moms with English degrees is not going to be helpful.

Why not do what you can to encourage her to be patient and listen to the actual doctors treating her daughter and then do what they suggest? That would actually be helpful to her. [/quote]

Shame on you, PP. One of the best ways patients and parents actually learn about mental illness is from peers who have been through it before.

Just this weekend, I asked other DCUMers about breast cancer and no one admonished  me in the way you have.  It is perfectly normal to seek others who are coping with similar health issues. You are behaving in a discriminatory way against people with mental illness, and given that mental illness carries a huge stigma that creates silence and isolation, your shaming is just contributing to the problem.

Families coping with mental illness are not sheep to be herded by some authoritarian doctor or medical system. We know a lot about out family members and their issues and are capable of learning a lot about medical diagnosis and treatment and have a right to participate collaboratively in shared-decision making with medical providers.

Misdiagnosis is very common with mental illness, and is usually questioned by family members. My ex-husband was mis-diagnosed as depressed, then mis-diagnosed as having a sexual addiction and then, several years later finally diagnosed correctly as a person with bipolar depression experiencing hyper sexuality in mania. Because of his initial misdiagnosis he was actually given a kind of medication which made him worse - a medication that never would have been given if had had an initial, proper diagnosis.  Did you know that people with bipolar go an average of 7 years between symptom onset to final, accurate diagnosis?

I have two other family members who also suffered misdiagnosis.  Both of them only came to the right diagnosis by a lot of observation and research by family members and collaboration with their doctors.

Shame on you PP!  Your perspective is SO wrong. [/quote]

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