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Originally Posted by Odee
I think with mental illness being more like a spectrum, and the fact that bipolar involves a lot of overlapping symptoms of much of them, I feel as though all of my symptoms can be categorized under Bipolar 2. I have anxiety, panic attacks, very ADHD-like symptoms but I chalk it up to the #2, because they probably all share the same source.
I'm not saying that is a definite for everyone. It's just part of how difficult it is to say where one condition ends and another begins.
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I'm BP I, but I agree with Odee about other issues falling under the umbrella of my bipolar. I have anxiety attacks, periodic agoraphobia-type symptoms & generalized anxiety, but attribute all of them to my bipolar. My pdoc never talks about my diagnoses with me...I know I'm BP I, for obvious diagnostic reasons (depression, mania, hypomania, etc.); rather, she deals directly with the symptoms I'm having at any given time. I'll catch hell for this one, but it seems some folks collect multiple diagnoses for all the wrong reasons. I'm no fan of amassing multiple labels when, as Odee posits, "I think (of) mental illness being more like a spectrum, and...bipolar involves a lot of overlapping symptoms."