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one thing which makes my diabetes difficult to manage is my lack of appetite. i wonder how something acting on dopamine would effect that, like stimulents and ADD/ADHD drugs. someone once did suggest that i look into ADHD because of things she noticed in my personality, but i guess i still don't understand the condition

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ok, i wrote that first thing in the morning and then printed it out and took it to my appointment with Dwyer. It was difficult to explain, i didn't want him to think i was judging him, it was more just personality-typing notes to myself. but i thought it relevant for him to see because he had previously told me how he's noticed i talk rather formally and i wanted for him to understand why i think this is.

oh and amphetamines are often used by people to suppress weight, it had slipped my mind. so we don't think they'd be useful.
after talking about the appetite thing he recommended seeing Bronwyn (a psychologist i used to see), because the appetite thing sounded more like a cognative behavioral thingo (and i told him i didn't really want drugs for it atm, i wrote it more as brainstorming - a journal note to myself). so i told him why i hadn't seen her or so long - because she suggested that the CBT may not get anywhere until my circumstances change, and since my circumstances still havn't changed i feel like it'd be wasting both

[roid]

i mean I may not like it, but her expectations are helpful.

[roid]

oh also, we talked about how psychiatrists use Transference (wiki definition) and explored a little how this related to me

[roid]

Transference

validation
mirroring

Self-concealment

sophistication