A) Notice patterns (within your personality) emerging as you spend time on this forum as respects personal blogs, opinions and responses?
B) Keep a printed/computer log of all your blogs, etc? If so, why? If not, why?
C) Find blogging as difficult or less difficult, as being face-to-face with a person - meaning, are you as easily triggered by what you read or by the responses of others as you would be in real life conversations and/or situations? (Note: I am not suggesting our conversations on-line are
not real, just not sure how else to word this question).
D) Have you been made aware of symptoms while blogging with those who suffer the same ilness(es) as you, that you otherwise did not think/feel you suffered from?
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The reasons I ask these questions is because I am becoming acutely aware of how helpful this site already has been for me thus far (it's the only site I blog on), and the potential one has to
really discover just how deeply manifest certain symtoms are over others, and whether or not one actually experiences certain symptoms at all.
For instance, I just realized, partly through on-line blogging, that depression is not as major an illness for me as I once thought. Depression has always been the primary diagnosis in my case - BPD w/ HN tendencies came later. Drugs have never had much affect on me for the treatment of depression (depressing in itself, I might add...). What I have noticed recently, is that depression comes
only when I am struggling with BPD-type issues, or from the aftermath of a classic BPD meltdown.
This is important stuff!! I know now I ought to adjust my type of therapy, etc. and begin to focus more on the BPD issues rather than trying to control my depression. I had been doing the reverse all this time. Just imagine how much time, effort and pain this revelation will save me!
If you, too, could recognize some of this stuff, imagine just how much it could affect
your recovery as well!
Thanking you in advance for your replies!
Altered State
