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Originally Posted by bluebicycle
Thanks for your reply, Laurie.
I think I'm just confused with myself. And again, the fact that I feel that I have misreported symptoms is what's getting to me. Like, I tried to be perfectly honest with all professionals, but I never knew 100%, for sure, that I had any of the bipolar symptoms I reported. That uncertainty just frustrates me from time to time.
Maybe you're right that going to be back and forth is a BP symptom. I don't know. I guess you're right that I should talk to my pdoc—or at least my therapist—about my concern. I'm just afraid of asking because they may call me a liar or may be brutal like my therapist was when she said that I'm off-putting to people.
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I am so sorry that your therapist said such a thoughtless thing. I understand that someone's personality can come across in writing differently than IRL. That said, you seem anything but off-putting. You seem so warm and engaging.
Oh, wow - I understand very well, your feeling of perhaps misreporting bipolar symptoms. I have exactly the same problem - I'm terribly afraid that I've done the same thing with my current pdoc. I keep going over and over my first few meetings with her, what I said, and that maybe I misreported my symptoms.
I'm thinking that if you just state your concerns to your pdoc (and/or therapist), I can't see how they'd call you a liar. I mean, you did the best you could with trying to give the correct information. It seems perfectly okay to tell them something like, "I'm feeling very concerned, because I think I might have misrepresented my symptoms" - something like that.
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truly feel for the difficulty you're going through. Please keep us posted, blue.