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Originally Posted by willowbrook
Do your possible Bipolar symptoms feel different to your Borderline/Attachment/Emotional type issues? The reason I ask is because, as I've explained to my Pdoc, I can tell the difference between my emotional issues, which feel more like part of the product of my psychological and sociological environment, and my psychotic type symptoms, which feel like they're coming from my a misfiring in my brain. There's a clear difference between the way I feel or perceive my symptoms when it comes to my diagnosis, so I was wondering if that was perhaps the same for you?
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It can depend on your thought processes, your intellectual style. I'm very analytical. I can distinguish some easily but not others. What complicates things is being in a very exploratory type of therapy. I mean-was having sex with my bf 5 times a day for a substantial length of time a result of hypomania or being a neglected baby? IDK The relationship ones would be more difficult to delineate than the other ones like racing thoughts, flow of creativity. But when exploring those things, they can be erroneously attributed to emotional issues that are coincidental. It didn't help that I have a lifetime of "major events" that could coincide with symptoms. But even if the symptoms were not there, I would have had the same life events. It doesn't have to have a cause-effect relationship, but it's easy to connect the dots anyway.
Thanks for all your input.