Dear Lindsey:

Still working on it but not feeling focused enough to continue today. I intend to continue tomorrow.

As far as my 2011 diagnosis, I didn’t ask the psychiatrist why he diagnosed me with bi-polar at the time. I  knew by that point (because it happened before) that doctors gave me contradictory evaluations and diagnoses. It is very common that an individual receives wrong diagnoses repeatedly before receiving the correct one.

Plus a person may fit a certain diagnosis at one time in life but not in another. Most mental diagnoses are not life sentences and healing is possible.

Also, no individual is born to fit bi-polar. The vast majority of mental diagnoses start with anxiety in childhood,  and symptoms develop over time from that anxiety.

When seeing a psychiatrist for a diagnosis, the psychiatrist lists the patient’s symptoms and looks for a diagnosis (a collection or combination, or better say, a grouping of symptoms) that fits the  particular patient’s collection of symptoms.

When a person attends quality psychotherapy, it is possible to heal a person. It is not possible to heal a diagnosis. What needs to heal within a person is some of that anxiety that caused all those hundreds of groupings of symptoms aka diagnoses.

Feel free to post today, as I am not focused to continue my study of your March- May 2019 posts at this time.

anita