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#1
Jan 30, 2016, 07:58 PM
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I've been diagnosed as bipolar for some time now. I have all the symptoms for it. Recently I looked up the symptoms of dissociation and I feel like that all the time. One of my main triggers is the mirror.
Anyways I wanted to know if these are two separate things or if I've been misdiagnosed as bipolar.
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I'm on a mix of meds. Who knows at this pont.. 
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Jan 30, 2016, 08:04 PM
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***** Every finger in the room is pointing at me I want to spit in their faces then I get afraid of what that could bring I got a bowling ball in my stomach I got a desert in my mouth Figures that my courage would choose to sell out now Tori Amos ~ Crucify Dx: Schizoaffective Disorder |
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Jan 30, 2016, 08:09 PM
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I do think you have dissociation when you are going through the depressive cycle.
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Jan 30, 2016, 09:13 PM
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Are there different meds for it? Or should I just keep it to myself?
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Jan 30, 2016, 09:37 PM
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yes a person can have both bipolar and dissociation problems. put simply even non mental disordered people dissociate. the defining line is severity. dissociation moves from the normal levels into the disordered levels (the list of dissociative disorders we have here in america is listed with in the link at the bottom of my post other locations outside of america may have other diagnostics and dissociative disorders)
here in america depression now includes dissociative problems, bipolar is a type of depression therefore your treatment providers might have already considered the dissociative criteria of the problem cant be better explained by another mental disorder and decided your problems are better explained by bipolar disorder. short version america is moving away from the multi axial (many mental disorders ....diagnostic process) so now mental disorders include the diagnostic criteria that the problems can not be better explained by another mental disorder. what that means is many people who have more than one mental disorder label are being re labeled as one or another disorder rather than having many mental disorder labels stuck on them. my suggestion contact your treatment providers, they will explain to you why your problems are called bipolar instead of dissociation disordered. |
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Jan 30, 2016, 09:46 PM
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Benzos usually help me with the dissociation.
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