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Originally Posted by BatsBelfry
Are your your disease? Are you your Bipolar? My therapist has suggested that I have become my disease. That it has consumed me since my diagnosis 2 plus years ago. I'm not sure how to take this. Does anyone else feel this way or have been told this? I do think about it a lot. As you can see from my signature I have a few diagnosis but I feel like anxiety and bipolar are the main two that rule my life. How does one become their disease though? Or maybe a better question is how does someone stop?
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I am guilty of this (maybe not so much with the bipolar, but with my other diagnoses)
too often you will hear me say: well, I don't do this now because of this, or I feel this way because I have this, or what ever- and I admit that usually it's one of the first things I tell people, I have this, this, this and this
I think some stuff for me is handled better than others.
my chronic pain, for instance, it's not handled good (and nor is my bipolar), however: my anxiety is a little better. I mean I don't do outragious things, but I'm always trying new experiences to help with my anxiety