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Jul 14, 2013, 09:02 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by comicgeek007
A little more than passing thoughts, but not 100% believed. Who knows. I‘ll try to get over myself and take them since I have no tangible evidence, I guess.
It is a long term relationship, but I think it's my worries about being abandoned more than anything to do with him. We talked it out and came to an understanding.
Should I tell my T? Or is this just a little blip on my radar that's not worth the fuss?
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I think fears of abandonment in relationships is definitely something that can be helped with therapy. This is a relationship/relational issue and has nothing to do with bipolar. This is why it's so important to think about the causes, if it's bipolar then theoretically there's nothing that can be done about it (except maybe meds), but if it's a psychological/relational issue, then it's eminently treatable in therapy, which in some ways is a good thing.
This is *precisely* why I don't like jumping to conclusions that everyone going on in one's life is bipolar-related -I think this can lead to not getting help and not taking steps to improve things. If it's a psychological issue, it can be improved with effort, with therapy -it's not easy, but the fact is is that not everything is bipolar and not everything can be treated with a pill.
I think it's always good to talk about whatever is bothering you in therapy. Of course the thoughts about your meds is bothering you. I don't know if you have already talked to your therapist about it, but you've had trouble accepting your meds, I have trouble with this too, and exploring this with your therapist may help you to figure out why it causes anxiety/ambivalence, how to accept taking them (or not taking them), etc.
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