Anxiety and OCD, which my pdoc considers to be "mixed episodes" with my bipolar. I especially struggle with worry about what other people think about me. I try so hard all of the time to be professional, to appear together, to act normal. And I worry that people notice when I'm anxious or they notice when I'm thinking negatively about things. I consider this an OCD thing. UGH. I'd like to be able to move past all that. I think my new therapist will be able to help me with this stuff. I can't see her again for a few weeks, though.
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...Out of night and alarm
Out of terrible dreams
Reach me your hand!
This is the meaning that we suffered in sleep:
The white peace of the waking.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Song of the Nations"~
Diagnoses: Bipolar 2, OCD, Chronic Worrywart 
Meds: Lithium (reducing), Trileptal, Latuda, Risperdal, Klonopin and Xanax PRN
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