[Corrupted Angel]

Heya all,

Well, so yesterday I came back from my first visit with my psychotherapist. It took a while to for everything to sink in but all in all I went from a Bipolar II to a Bipolar I, she (for now) took away the BPD, but then added OCD but to be fair all of what she diagnosed me with makes perfect sense to me, especially with the events that has happened in my life. My complete Diagnosis goes as this: BP1, PTSD, OCD, GAD, ADHD, and social anxiety. It's rough! OH! And she asked me if I thought if in was still manic and I said I don't think so, and she said yes you are still manic. Well I didn't believe her until that night! I've been up since 2am, yet now I'm sinking slowly, not sure how to handle this...I just had to vent. ~Angel~

[Victoria'smom]

It's all just names for what you've already been dealing with. It makes meds an interesting balance but everything's pretty much the same. Which Dx are you having difficulty with?

[Crazy Hitch]

I was very manic when I was upgraded from bp2 to bp1 and I actually felt proud of it like I had won the Nobel peace prize Aye yay yay yay yay.

When I was diagnosed with bpd too two months ago, I felt a sense of relief. I knew some of my behaviors just couldn't only be bp related. And the more I read, the more I understood, like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle fitting in.

One of my first signs of a mood change is interrupted sleep.

My only advice to you would be to educate yourself as much as possible about your diagnoses so that you learn more about yourself and gain a deeper level of understanding of your behaviors.

Be well.

[madness2meditation]

Too many words and labels ... too little insight and understanding ... and more importantly, no 'real' solutions other than unabashed chemical tinkering with a highly subtle mechanism that is the MIND. As someone here pointed out, still very much the 'dark ages' of mental health treatment.

@Hooligan - I took the Sanity Test on this site and it suggested a possibility of 9 further disorders !!! LOL
I was like 'No thanks'.

[hellboy]

Originally Posted by Corrupted Angel

Heya all,

Well, so yesterday I came back from my first visit with my psychotherapist. It took a while to for everything to sink in but all in all I went from a Bipolar II to a Bipolar I, she (for now) took away the BPD, but then added OCD but to be fair all of what she diagnosed me with makes perfect sense to me, especially with the events that has happened in my life. My complete Diagnosis goes as this: BP1, PTSD, OCD, GAD, ADHD, and social anxiety. It's rough! OH! And she asked me if I thought if in was still manic and I said I don't think so, and she said yes you are still manic. Well I didn't believe her until that night! I've been up since 2am, yet now I'm sinking slowly, not sure how to handle this...I just had to vent. ~Angel~

Welcome to the BP1 club. All that said, losing the BPD is good for your prognosis.

[Sinking Feeling]

Originally Posted by Miguel'smom

It's all just names for what you've already been dealing with. It makes meds an interesting balance but everything's pretty much the same. Which Dx are you having difficulty with?

agreed. I'm bipolar1 but have not had a full blown manic episode in over 16 years. Doesn't matter, it only takes one your BP1 forever, they only upgrade BP it seems. A lot of BP2's get upgraded to BP1, doesn't mean that much really.

What is interesting is the strong connections BP has with other mental illnesses including OCD, BPD, other personality disorders, and schizoaffective. Also interesting, about half of all the BP2 diagnosed go to BP1 but of course there is no way of knowing of the illness got more severe or it was misdiagnosed from the start.

[Corrupted Angel]

(This is so weird! I swear I thought I had replied back to y'all), Yeah it's true, it's just names to what I've been dealing with.. My DX I've been dealing with is , BP1, PTSD, OCD and generalized anxiety, social anixety and ADHD... So I dunno it all seems like a problem but... I gotta say the worst for me is my BP1, Anxiety, PTSD and OCD...Thank ya for your response!

Originally Posted by Miguel'smom

It's all just names for what you've already been dealing with. It makes meds an interesting balance but everything's pretty much the same. Which Dx are you having difficulty with?

[Corrupted Angel]

Lol, Yeah, sometimes finding out what's wrong feels wonderful because knowing there's a name to it & treatment options as well... I still have a lot of work to do, I pretty much have very little idea how to know when a episode is coming on!
Yeah I'm trying to educate myself as much as I cann along with going to psychotherapy! Thank ya for your reply!

Originally Posted by Hooligan

I was very manic when I was upgraded from bp2 to bp1 and I actually felt proud of it like I had won the Nobel peace prize Aye yay yay yay yay.

When I was diagnosed with bpd too two months ago, I felt a sense of relief. I knew some of my behaviors just couldn't only be bp related. And the more I read, the more I understood, like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle fitting in.

One of my first signs of a mood change is interrupted sleep.

My only advice to you would be to educate yourself as much as possible about your diagnoses so that you learn more about yourself and gain a deeper level of understanding of your behaviors.

Be well.

[Corrupted Angel]

Yup, they don't call it medical practice for nothing! Lol
Thank ya for your input!

Originally Posted by madness2meditation

Too many words and labels ... too little insight and understanding ... and more importantly, no 'real' solutions other than unabashed chemical tinkering with a highly subtle mechanism that is the MIND. As someone here pointed out, still very much the 'dark ages' of mental health treatment.

@Hooligan - I took the Sanity Test on this site and it suggested a possibility of 9 further disorders !!! LOL
I was like 'No thanks'.

[Corrupted Angel]

Why thank ya! I've always wanted to be in a club! Lol
And yes, losing BPD is a good thing! Thank ya for your response!

Originally Posted by hellboy

Welcome to the BP1 club. All that said, losing the BPD is good for your prognosis.

[lifetimemeds]

The uneducated public think BP means wild mood swings between depression and mania. But for most of us, that is not true. Many of us do not cycle. We have just a few episodes of mania in decades and the remaining time is in deep depression. I don't remember having many stretches of time with neither depression or mania. It is the deep dark valley most of the time for me.

[Curious651]

Glad you are in a good place with all this.

[wiretwister]

Originally Posted by lifetimemeds

The uneducated public think BP means wild mood swings between depression and mania. But for most of us, that is not true. Many of us do not cycle. We have just a few episodes of mania in decades and the remaining time is in deep depression. I don't remember having many stretches of time with neither depression or mania. It is the deep dark valley most of the time for me.

Deep dark and lonely

[loophole]

Honestly basically all of those can be combined into one. Bipolar disorder. My doc won't add extra dxs to my list and I agree with him. The whole deal is to find the right meds. The other things can be covered in therapy. Only real good medicine for anxiety in my opinion is benzos and the side effects and withdraw is totally not worth it. So glad I'm off those feel much better. My total dx would be gad sad ocd. PTSD. Dissociative disorder. No thanks I'll just say bpd . Don't need the extra baggage in my head