Are you bothered by your Dx?

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Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse ...I'd still like to believe I'm in some sort of long-term existential crisis, but I know better now and I don't question the dx anymore. ...

Absolutely fabulous statement This is always my argument with myself..."It's just an existential crisis..."

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Originally Posted by ~Christina BD ? BP ( Bipolar ) or do you mean BPD (borderline personality disorder) ? I’m guessing BP Those of us with BP can have every emotion under the sun, I can be over the moon happy and excited and giddy I found a new nail polish color I don’t have , is that BP ? No it’s just my being happy. I was absolutely furious over something a person said to me a few weeks ago . Was that BP? No I had every right to be furious. So my advice is don’t waste a lot of time analyzing a mood but just a quick 2 second self check if your thinking whatever is BP.

Yes, bipolar disorder. And thank you! I need to hear that. I drive myself into anxiety states trying to discern "it" from "me."

Thank you!

I hope I'll feel better in the future. It's just too recent now.

My dx is something that I must acknowledge. Something I need to take in account when making plants. Planning enough rest, taking care of myself. Yes, I have encountered rolledeyes from doctors and feeling stigme. But other than that, I need my meds, I need visits to therapist, it's taking care of myself. I'm relieved by diagnosis as it takes away fault from me being wrong to me suffering from illness and me needing proper care.

yup, people don't follow me as serious and mark me as a loon. not proud to be bipolar but it explains things. if I could have this condition with little people knowing I'd feel better, but can't. not in denial but bothered by people's reactions. yeah guess I shouldn't care what people think but having all of this engraved on me makes me worry. it's hard to snap my fingers and say 'yeah I don't care about what people think, woohoo!' not that easy at all, that's how people talk to me sometimes. I know I have bipolar but I'm bothered by it to an extent. I don't view other bipolar folks or myself as 'crazy' but other people seem to.

Not really. I've had plenty of time to get used to it and honestly even when I was very first diagnosed I was mostly just relieved to know what was wrong with me; something certainly was.

I do hate some of the consequences, like not being able to work and being sedated and having gained weight by taking meds. But the bipolar itself just is what it is.

I've been thinking about this question since it got posted. I wanna say hell no it don't bother me,.....but I wouldn't want people to know. I volunteered for years but I don't tell people I'm bipolar. I've seen people change if they have knowledge of the diganois, they back off thinking of how the media, films and books portrayed a bipolar. Where I had had a unque viewpoint and take on a situation suddenly become oh she's got a "crazy outlook" whereas I was taken seriously I suddenly become superfluous. So while I don't think of my diganois day to day or think of myself as mi day to day I'm aware I don't share this openly. Yeah it bothers me.

My feelings have gone back and forth throughout the years. It gave me comfort to get diagnosed in order to receive the right treatment.

The only time I really get triggered when I see it on paper, like when I have to submit insurance claims. Although I know my diagnosis is very real, it makes it all too real actually seeing the label under my name. Maybe it makes me feel like just a diagnosis and not a person when I see it in writing, if that makes sense. But overall, I do accept it and have been dealing with this for so long.

i feel like relieved for my bipolar to know and relate to the symptoms but demonized and looked down on because on my personality stuff. that said, i enjoy who i am, i just hate that my medical records are all like "saucy is hard to handle etc".