I have a friend whos been diagnosed as bi polar.

The problem is, the medicine combinations that have been tried have helped slightly but not much

Enough to keep her alive.. that's it

She has been hospitalized 4 times

Now the problem is, I'm trying to help her as I believe they have been treating her for bi polar but from all the research we have done, we don't think she has bi polar

I'm trying to help because who knows her better than me. Help I mean trying to work out what she has

One diagnosis is hospital was borderline personality. The others are bi polar

I just wanted to ask, how do you know what illness you have when you can relate to almost all illnesses?

I mean I don't think she is bi polar because she only has a few things that match that disorder (no mania ever too)

I just don't know because she has a bit of everything. And I mean that.

No illness we have looked at has more than a few symptoms she has

There's definitely huge anxiety panic attacks. Huge dark suicidal depression. Distorted image. Paranoia (not very bad but still bad)

Always thinking people are going to or plan to hurt her (when reality is they just want to see her)

Some mild halusinations. (That she knows are not real but still lives them)

Disasotiation and Leaving her body

I could rattle off a million more things but I just think she's been constantly misdiagnosed and that's just useless

She's been to a few drs and they all come back with different things..

Is there any disorder that had basically all the symptoms?

I guess what I'm asking is how do you treat someone when they have so much wrong and they don't fit into any category

Thanks