I am diagnosed as bipolar. But many times I think I am misdiagnosed specially manic or hypomanic symptoms absent. What if I am realy misdiagnosed? I am on lithium then how it works for me in case wrong diagnosis.
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Take homeopathic treatment, as homeopathic prescription is based on the symptoms and not on the diagnosis. Homeopathy treatment is a natural form of medicine based on the principle of symptom similarity. Homeopathic remedies are derived from natural sources and are diluted and potentized to make them safe.In conventional medicine, diseases are treated with drugs directed at the particular disease. If a patient has multiple diseases, then they will most likely need multiple drugs, sometimes more than one drug for each disease. In homeopathic medicine, the selection of the remedy is based on the totality of the patient’s symptoms, not on a particular diagnosis. Two implications follow: 1) the same diagnosis (eg, headaches) in two patients may need to be treated with different homeopathic remedies because the totality of the symptoms differs for the patients, and 2) multiple diagnoses (headaches and an autoimmune disease) within the same patient may be treated with one remedy if a remedy can be found which matches the totality of the patient’s symptoms. Consult online for the Homeopathic treatment.
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If you have doubts about the correctness of the diagnosis you have at least 2 options i) ask for some time from the doctor (and offer to pay fair charges for the time allotted to you) and request the doctor to explain the diagnosis to you and why he makes that diagnosis in your case. Please don't argue with the doctor. Just listen to the doctor's explanation and ask for further clarification of medical terms if you have not understood. Your job is to understand the doctor's thought process and not to teach him medicine and diagnosis. Also ask him what his treatment plans are and over what period of time could you expect to see appreciable improvement. Also ask which symptoms/features of the illness will be helped by medicines and which ones will not be. Learn from the doctor what you can do to help the treatment in terms of diet, habits or discipline etc. Or the other option is ii) ask to be referred for a second opinion - a professional will readily do so. If the doctor refuses to refer you for a second opinion then do so yourself. Explain to the doctor that you do not wish to question his treatment and wisdom but you need to understand your illness better. If this doctor is the nearest psychiatrist to where you stay prefer to continue with him even after the second opinion unless he has bed-side manners which are not to your liking.
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