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Originally Posted by beauflow
About a week ago I saw my Therapist and I told my therapist that the psychiatrist said that I was not bipolar. My Therapist pulls out her report from the guy and she reads it off to me- Bipolar 2.
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I too have a story about that. My Pdoc now is the same doc I had in my 20's and he said then, that I had Major depression. I was already on a mood stabilizer though because I have a seizure disorder. I had a fear of bipolar and told him so, because my mother is bipolar, but un-medicated. Well in 09' I had a suicide attempt and THEN he did tell me I was Bipolar. I saw a therapist in his office and asked her to look at my chart from when I used to see him in my 20's and check the diagnosis... It said Bipolar II. Since then I have had mania recently and the diagnosis was changed to Bipolar I, however again he did not tell me my therapist looked up his diagnosis in my chart and she told me!
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Originally Posted by beauflow
This is what I will point out: bipolar II by definition cannot have psychotic features
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That's right! So many people are confused about this on this forum. I don't know if it's because their pdoc is not diagnosing correctly or not telling them their proper diagnosis or what?..
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Originally Posted by beauflow
Now I have had "out of reality" experiences I suppose you would say
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I did not copy all your examples, however these mostly sound like delusions to me. Delusions also are psychotic features, as well as hallucinations. A delusion is: a belief held in the face of evidence to the contrary, that is resistant to all reason.
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Originally Posted by beauflow
Now the only voices in my head are the ones i hear shouting at me that are me when I am mad- there can be "multiple me's" in a sense but they are all me
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I'm thinking this may be negative thinking related to the illness that's causing your mind to answer yourself...repeatedly. However, I'm just not sure on this one. The fact that it is YOUR voice leads me to believe (right or wrong?) that it is not a hallucination.
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Originally Posted by beauflow
I have heard that people can be both bipolar and borderline, my therapist mentioned that in my first session with her. But I just wanted to hear what you guys thought on this.
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Results from a long-term study indicate that borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar disorder do not commonly coexist, a finding which has important implications for treatment. The findings are reported in the July 2006 issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP), the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
With this being said, your Pdoc needs to figure out which you have. Most likely you are not both, but it is possible...
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Originally Posted by beauflow
[B]I am sorry if i come off to hasty or sarcastic any where- I do apologies
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I didn't find your post sarcastic at all... Don't be hard on yourself!
