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Okay so I've been feeling really crappy for like a really long time and recently I've been opening up a lot more to this boy and he keeps telling me I should talk to a doctor. I've told him I'll book an appointment but I really don't know if I need to or should. I mainly talk to him when I'm feeling low so I feel like he's only got one perspective because I can be happy sometimes so I don't know if I really need to see a doctor. I also really don't want my family to find out and I know the initial appointment would be confidential but from there I'm not sure on the rules of confidentiality with diagnosis and medication (if anyone knows please tell me). So basically I don't know how to either tell this guy I'm not booking an appointment/ if I should. Idk if this has made any sense sorry.
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As long as you are 16 or over then you are classed as an adult in terms of medical treatment etc so everything will be confidential and your family won't be told and even if they asked about it, your doctor couldn't say anything because of patient confidentiality. I'm not sure about it if you're under 16. I do however believe that they can break confidentiality if they believe that you are a very serious risk to yourself (for example if they believed that you was going to try and commit suicide).
It's completely up to you whether you decide to go or not but I'd say it is worth a shot because it could benefit you greatly getting help from a medical profession.
Hope this helps a bit x
If you aren't sure what to say to your doctor, it might be worth writing a list of how you feel on a bad day and take that with you, or there is also an app called 'Doc Ready' (http://www.docready.org/#/home) which asks you some questions as a starting point of how you're feeling so you can start talking to your GP using what it has asked you.
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And thank you, that was another concern of mine but I'll make sure to make a list I think that will help a lot. And I'll be sure to check out that app too, thank you x
Just wanted to say hope your doctors appointment works out. And feel free to continue to post here and let us know how your doing if you wanted too
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