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Originally Posted by ElsaMars
The diagnosis connected a lot of dots for me too. I'd been diagnosed with many things over the years...they always connected the dots too, until they didn't. It's like when I first got sick...I was sure it was lupus, then MS, then early monopause, thyroid, brain tumor, hypochondriac, RA, Insanity, pregnant, permanent damage from previous attempts, damage from a bad car wreck I had as a teenager, syphallis even came up...the list goes on and on.....and they all connected the dots too. Fact is, it's all guess work still. I could have some never before seen rare genetic disorder for all we know. Or do I just over-think things? That's a strong possibility. Now I just focus on symptoms and methods to control them....it keeps it simple that way and I cannot function with complicated right now.
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I've had much the same path as you describe. I've thought a different times I had lupus, Crohn's disease, cancer...any number of things. I've had my fair share of physical problems but bipolar explained so much. Often my episodes coincided with what I know now were bad manic or mixed episodes. That makes life really hard.
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Bipolar I
Borderline Personality Disorder
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
"You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
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