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Originally Posted by UnderTheRose
Maybe rather than BPD being a mood disorder, due to some similarities with BiP, in a few years they will be deciding that rapidly cycling, affective mood disorders are actually PERSONALITY disorders and then THAT can be discussed instead.
Do psych meds help BPD'ers? Sure sometimes they do, usually all in the same way, by making us tired, flat and non-responsive. I read through the big thing at NIMH and, every medication that they used were the sort that just wipe you out. Yeah it's hard to be emotionally reactive when drugged down. Does that imply that they are both mood disorders?
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That's certainly a possibility because it doesn't matter what popular opinion is now, they can change it.
As for the meds, earlier in this thread I referred to a med test for each group, bipolar and bpd. Both groups were given the primary meds given to people with bipolar, depression, anxiety. Mostly SSRIs. In both groups they did so-so with no real clear lead or advantage in either group. Here's where I find it gets interesting. They gave both groups anti-psychotic meds and BOTH groups shown significant improvement over the reg meds. So it seems that anti-psychotics worked best for both in these tests. Tests were not exactly scientific, not much is in psychology, tests were limited to a low number of patients, 20 or 30 in each group. Test did not take in consideration for any possible misdiagnosis. In the first test, the normal meds did only slightly better then the placebo. With anti-psychotic meds the improvement was significant over the placebo. This is the only test I know given this way.
Oh before I forget what this test did show was it didn't make any significant difference one way or another what you gave BPD, given the same meds as bipolar would resulted in exactly the same results people with bipolar had, nothing to get excited about. But what was the big surprise was how effective anti-psychotics were for both. Unfortunately for me I can't take anti-psychotics.