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Originally Posted by dark_heart_x
Hi, welcome to PC!
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Thank you!
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Originally Posted by dark_heart_x
I agree with Innerzone that it just depends on your cycle where you're at with coping. Sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse. It's important to use coping skills all the time, but that's often easier said than done. You already know a lot of these skills from your work with BPD.
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What coping skills do you rely on? And do you manage to do avoid the "bad stuff" when you're hypo? Like drugs, not eating and avoiding sleep. I'm afraid I need to change some of my unhealthy coping skills.
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Originally Posted by dark_heart_x
You say you've been on meds before. Are you currently seeing a pdoc? If you're not interested in meds maybe a therapist will help. Talk therapy can be very helpful, I find. Someone who knows about the combination of BP and BPD would probably be good.
Also maybe track your moods? Sometimes that can be helpful, to learn your own personal patterns.
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I am not seeing a psychiatrist regularly at the moment (I'm not sure what the equivalent of a pdoc is in Norway), but I have talked to my psychologist about meds. We agreed a while ago, with the help of my psychiatrist, that I should stop taking my meds so that I could get more out of the BPD therapy, but now my mental health has deteriorated a lot and I think it would be better for me to take the meds again. I have lost a lot of control over my thoughts and emotions, I can't really think straight because it all depends on whether I'm "up", "down" or somewhere in-between. However, I also want them to figure out what sort of bipolar issues I have (and to actually recognize them, which I feel they're hesitant about - might be my paranoia). While I was on the meds I almost didn't have any symptoms of hypomania, so that would complicate the diagnostic part.