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My emotions turn on and off like a light switch and can be extremely hot and extremely cold depending on how someone treats me is this part of my Bipolar or is this a trust issue that is me?
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Welcome Sole searching,you have a cool name, I think most of us on here are doing just that, soul searching. This is a Great Place, everyone on here is very caring and helpful.
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Maybe part of being bipolar is having trust issues? Maybe the trust issues are stemming from your past? Do you have a T? It might be a good thing to explore in therapy. Sorry for the rapid cycling between hot and cold.
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hot in cold in the sense that if someone hurts me i can pull away and it not bother me at all like it should, and then when iam happy being clingy and don't want to be away from them |
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It sounds more like a personality disorder. But I am not a doctor. If it is really severe and interfering with your life or is extremely distressing, you really need to talk to a therapist. Best Wishes and keep posting and keep us up to date, k?
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I'm not a doctor either, and I don't know if this helps or not, but you are not alone here. I do this exact thing. I can cut people off without a second thought when I am down and they say or do the wrong thing. It is definitely an attribute of atypical depression ("having a more intense reaction or increased sensitivity to rejection, resulting in problems with social and work relationships" from webmd.com), and from the reading I am doing I'm learning that it's also part of bipolar II. Then I find when I am back up again I am super clingy and want to talk to them all the time. I think it has to be related partly to the bipolar, but I have also wondered if it could be a personality thing. I've talked to my therapist about this a lot. She thinks it has to do with how I was treated as a child and/or just a coping mechanism to keep people from getting too close. Of course, when we talked about it I didn't have the bipolar diagnosis, just depressive, so it's still a work in progress for me.
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Thank you everyone for your responses Secret Spirit I think your on to something there I notice it more when iam depressed and i don't notice it at all when iam manic. The other thing i have notice when iam depressed is i start calling everyone in my phone book just to talk to someone is this normal?
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As far as it being normal, not necessarily. Some people withdraw when depressed. Some do. Some don't.
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Berries makes an excellent point here; some do withdraw when depressed and some don't. It must just depend on the person and their experiences. I withdraw. I cannot even imagine calling anyone when I am depressed. Although I personally think it is a brave thing to do- sole searching, good on you for reaching out for support when you need it most.
On a lighter note, some of the best advice I've ever gotten was from a pdoc who told me to forget comparing myself to 'normal' because I am never going to measure up. He was a funny guy. And for me, an excellent point. Now that I've embraced how different I am I worry much less about what people think of me and for me that spells F-R-E-E-D-O-M! ![]()
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