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#1
Oct 28, 2016, 06:33 PM
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Do you think BP is a selfish illness?
This was brought up in support group on Thursday and I'm over thinking it now Saturday morning |
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#2
Oct 28, 2016, 06:35 PM
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Do you mean bipolar or borderline pd?
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#3
Oct 28, 2016, 06:39 PM
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Bipolar...
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#4
Oct 28, 2016, 06:41 PM
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Not at all. I can see how points could be made to hypothesize such a claim, but it wouldn't lead to a theory. That is what I think. What do you think? How we see ourselves is very important.
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#5
Oct 28, 2016, 06:42 PM
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I think when sypotoms get severe people can't help it and that might be seen as selfish possibly. Also some of the self care needed to manage a mood disorder may be seen as selfish like not working or plenty of downtime.
However I don't see the mental health challenge itself as inherently selfish. |
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#6
Oct 28, 2016, 06:45 PM
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I don't think so but then when I was depressed and suicidal I guess I was selfish. I haven't been this way in at least 4 years but even bad depression makes me think I'm selfish as I'm like a broken record going over the same things again and again. Guess it's like the black and white thinking I get?
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 Anonymous45023, Anonymous59125, Sad Mermaid
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#7
Oct 28, 2016, 06:47 PM
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Sure. When your brain malfunctions your attention is drawn to your own symptoms, treatment, side effects, recovery and relapse. Both mania and depression can lead to self-fixation. If the disease prevents you from fulfilling your own or others' expectations, you could become self-obsessed. Selfishness could be an uncharitable descriptor for any of these behaviors.
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#8
Oct 28, 2016, 06:48 PM
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I think it can make us that way at times when we're in the middle of an episode, but most of us aren't inherently selfish people. We simply struggle with a disease that makes us self-involved, not selfish (there is a difference). It's hard to focus on someone else's needs when our own are right in front of our faces.
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| Sad Mermaid
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#9
Oct 28, 2016, 06:50 PM
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I heard people saying that being suicidal is selfish. (Which it isn't) But not of bipolar itself as being selfish.
Managing a mental illness requires some introspection, which in today's extroverted society may be seen as selfish. |
| Sad Mermaid
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#10
Oct 28, 2016, 07:26 PM
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I thought you means Blood Pressure... sorry in a really odd place right now mentally. I think it's more selfish to have a mental illness and do nothing about it. Or worse tell someone who has a mental illness that they are just trying to get attention, heard this one from my own parents when i went and got myself diagnosed.
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| Anonymous59125, BipolaRNurse
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#11
Oct 28, 2016, 07:42 PM
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I think the disorder has made me empathize with suffering (of all kinds) in others, which is not selfish. I really like the points made above about the distinction between selfish and self-involved.
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Dx: Bipolar I w/Psychotic Features Rx: Seroquel ER 550 mg, Depakote ER 1000 mg, Melatonin 6 mg, Atarax 50 mg. |
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#12
Oct 29, 2016, 12:05 AM
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I'm BP and BPD and I can see how it SEEMS selfish. But actually suffering from it? No. I didn't chose this MI.
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| Sad Mermaid
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#13
Oct 29, 2016, 06:30 AM
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I feel 'selfish' in the sense, at least in my relationship to my wife, because I'm such a wreck in many ways and she is SO together. I end up feeling that only my issues are important... anything she is going through is trivial. It sucks that I start thinking this way... but at least I've become aware of it.
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| Sad Mermaid
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#14
Oct 29, 2016, 07:38 AM
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I think people with Bipolar' myself included' become rather 'self-absorbed.' We tend to fixate on our mood states, our med trials, our triggers, in order to manage our illness. Sometimes it gets very boring when I get on here and scan the threads, it's all so ME, ME, ME. But it is just part of the illness. It can't be prevented until I mature spiritually and progress my awareness onto a higher plane. Which would mean I would no longer find it necessary or beneficial to be on this site. As of now, I get a lot of help from you all and hope I have something to offer you all.
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| Sad Mermaid, venusss
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#15
Oct 29, 2016, 07:45 AM
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This is an old thread. You probably should not post your reply to it, as the original poster is unlikely to see it.|
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