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Sep 13, 2013, 09:30 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by MoxieDoxie
Thank for this thread! I was just given this diagnosis this past Monday and left to figure it out on my own. This has been helpful. I do struggle daily with moods, emotions, paranoid thinking and always knew something was wrong with me. That I was broken. I feel, inside, that it is biological, something misfiring in my brain. Not something I can control or a personality issue. I also always wished my moods would just be stable/even keeled. So tiring the roller coaster of moods/emotions daily, hourly. I am amazed I carved out a normal looking life and I do contribute it to a VERY calm husband that knows how to stable me instead being wounded and making the situation worse.
Sorry if I am ranting.
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Neither BPD nor Bipolar are entirely biological, by a long shot. Both are considered to have multiple origins: genetics, environment, in-born temperament, brain 'chemicals', size and functionality of different parts of the brain, etc. None of us, either BPD or BP can realistically throw up our hands (though not saying you're doing this) and say it's out of our control. In both cases, there is treatment, and in both cases, it requires a lot of time and hard work.
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