Posted by JonW on May 27, 2002, at 7:53:36
In reply to if I'd known then what I know now...., posted by katekite on May 25, 2002, at 10:14:57
> Don't take drugs without a well proven diagnosis unless you're suicidal or risking harming others. Don't agree to a diagnosis because you want a diagnosis, agree to a diagnosis because it fits completely what you are. Try not to let wanting to please anyone or depression or anything else interfere with rationally assessing a diagnosis to see if it fits you.
Hi kate,
I agree and couldn't have said it better myself! I know that when I do research on the internet the symptoms I report to my doctor are sometimes colored by that. I go out of my way to try to be objective as possible, and remind my doctors that I've been looking up things on my own again. I think we all want to be diagnosed so badly because it means we're that much closer to a cure ("so that's why I'm still not better..."), or at the very least it makes us feel like we belong.
Jon
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