[MuddyBoots]

Do you have any comorbidities with your bipolar disorder? I've always been diagnosed with PTSD although I was told today it's more likely I have BPD since I rarely re-experience the trauma and my problem is with relationships. If you do have other diagnoses, what are they and how do they mingle with your bipolar?

[Blissfullyme]

I have bipolar I, eupd, anxiety and OCD. I also have an eating disorder which is considered a comorbidity because not eating interferes with my meds

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[*Beth*]

Yes, I've been repeatedly diagnosed with CPTSD due to some childhood events. It's hard to say where one disorder ends and another begins. If anything, it seems to me that medication treats bipolar symptoms, whereas meds don't really affect the CPTSD. Although it's possible that meds do help CPTSD anxiety - but that anxiety, especially severe anxiety, could be an aspect of bipolar disorder.

[Nammu]

I was diagnosed with PTSD first, then depression which changed to bipolar. So I had both ptsd and bipolar, the ptsd made it impossible to stay stable. But therapy treated the PTSD and I’m left only with the bipolar which is treated with meds. I’ve been stable now for 4-5 years but right now am fighting depression.

[Soupe du jour]

I have no current co-morbitities, but have.

In the past, I also had a formal diagnosis of alcohol dependence/abuse, having gone to rehab. GAD (generalized anxiety) showed up on records, at times. Though I wasn't formally diagnosed with agoraphobia, I had a rather tough bout for a little over a year, several years back, barely leaving my house. I got past it. I've also experienced maladaptive daydreaming that eventually passed. The latter is not in the DSM-5, but was a serious issue. Some periods I experienced depersonalization and derealization. Again, not permanent. Recovery and coping skills helped.

I had a neurologist formally diagnose me with Simple Partial Seizures, a form of focal seizures (epilepsy). That period is a bit of a mystery. Those "symptoms" also eventually went away, but I continue to take two antiepileptics. There were never convulsions, as in other types of seizures. Other weird stuff that resembled psych issues. Part of that time I experienced months of musical hallucinations (and similar). Again, they passed after some months. Around that period I also developed migraine headaches for the first time. They transitioned to "silent migraines" which included sensory hallucinations and accompanying panic attacks. Again, eventually faded away.

[Brentus]

I was diagnosed with a slew of things, which have developed over time. BPD has been on the table some, but has yet become a formal diagnosis from what I know. Currently I have a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, PTSD, GAD, and ADHD. There is a lot of overlap in the manifestations of symptoms but in general they each exacerbate each other in some way.

[sarahsweets]

Originally Posted by WindsThatBlow

I was diagnosed with a slew of things, which have developed over time. BPD has been on the table some, but has yet become a formal diagnosis from what I know. Currently I have a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder, PTSD, GAD, and ADHD. There is a lot of overlap in the manifestations of symptoms but in general they each exacerbate each other in some way.

same here.

[Mountaindewed]

I have diagnosed general anxiety disorder, autism, and depression along with bipolar. Selective mutism has been discussed a few times but other people say its the anxiety that makes me not be able to talk. People go back and forth all the time on the eating disorder one. Then theres the gender one which is legit but needs to be on paper mainly so insurance can pay for things. Some doctors wont even work with you if you don't have the gender dysphroia diagnosis first.

[HALLIEBETH87]

Yea… sza bp type, ptsd, a couple anxiety disorders and some ocd traits

[tentoedsloth]

It's debatable--maybe often is. Which things are just aspects of bipolar? I thought I had OCD, and so did the psych, but when he finally came up with the bipolar diagnosis and gave me Lamictal, now generic lamotrigine, it knocked the OCD thoughts almost entirely out. I've since read that sometimes that's all the OCD stuff is, in bipolar people, just kind of a side effect of bipolar.

Same with the anxiety, which I have plenty of.

[Pinny]

Ive got generalised anxiety disorder and dermatillomania.