Posted by SLS on December 4, 2004, at 7:53:36
In reply to To the point where I don't mention suicidiality, posted by linkadge on December 3, 2004, at 11:09:17
> It's come to the point where I don't even mention suicidiality when I go to the doctors office.
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> They can't do anything, they also don't want to hear that after all this time they havn't made progress. They also just think I'm faking it, so I don't even bother to mention it anymore.
Hi Linkadge.If I were you, I would verbalize these concerns to your doctor. I have had to do this from time to time with my doctors in the past. Being ill with depression for so long, I have learned how to minimize its outward expression. I don't appear to be that ill. The other thing that might contribute to the underappreciation of the severity of your illness is the enormous amount of research and learning you have accomplished and the insight you display. A doctor might question how someone so severely affected by depression has the energy, motivation, and cognitive resources to accomplish so much. A doctor might even speculate that you are obsessively preoccupied with the neurobiology of mental illness and that you might be hypochondriacal. You should most surely express that you are worried that he might be thinking these things, and that you want to be clear as to what you are actually experiencing.
Your doctor will not treat you properly unless you talk to him.
- Scott
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