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freeda

posted 06/24/2008, comments (4)

Got my eval from U of M

It is long!! I suppose that's good, considering I was there 4 hours or so. I also received a several page personality profile last week. Says a lot of things I disagree with, got a couple of factual things wrong. But the essence of it is about what I thought it would be. For those who are interested in the... Read more Chevron

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posted 06/09/2008, comments (8)

Evaluation at University of Michigan.

Well, it was draining. First you go do a computer program, and it asks you things like "out of the last 14 days, how many days did you have a problem going to sleep?" But it was pretty fast. Next was the intake nurse. She's a RN that has special training. After that, she goes and discusses you with the... Read more Chevron

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posted 04/05/2008, comments (2)

Un/Rediagnosis

After my first visit with my new doctor he changed my diagnosis to mood disorder unspecified. He said it wasn't that important what we call it anyway, how we go about treating it will be the same no matter what name we give it. That's all fine, it's just that's that's there's no "mood disorder unspecified... Read more Chevron

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posted 04/05/2008, comments (0)

My Boy Just Got Diagosed with Bipolar - What Now?

Angela writes:“December '07 my son tried to commit suicide twice. Hard to believe, huh? Well, it happened.” The poor boy is seven.Angela posted this in early March. She reports that she had to hospitalize her son. There, the doctors diagnosed him with depression and anxiety, but one of the meds they put him on raised a red flag... Read more Chevron

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