[SKCher]

I have stumbled my way through life knowing something was wrong with me emotionally, and when it started at 14 my psychiatrist labeled me as a behavior problem. That's what they did with kids in the late 60s, I mean how could a 14 year old have a mental illness?

Since then I have been diagnosed with depression, anxious depression, borderline, bipolar II, attachment disorder, and SAD. I mean how could they all be so different in their thoughts? I identify with the Borderline theory mostly because I fit every criteria, and my daughter also has it (she grew up with her father and step mother).

The past two weeks I have seen myself go through every possible emotion and back again.

I have received some different diagnoses over the years, as I'm sure many people do. I recommend focusing less on the labels and more on treating the symptoms.

[SKCher]

Thank you

[Ofeelia]

HI, I can relate to you on this. Its rather surprising how many things they can label you with. A lot of these diagnoses share similar symptoms. I would agree with previous poster that you don't have to read too much into it. I've always thought that the human mind and the human experience is so complex, and the ones that are treating us sometimes seem as they are playing a game of chance. I encourage you to let go of these labels, and just focus on the symptoms you're having. You are not abnormal. You are a normal person reacting to an abnormal situation. Stay hopeful

[SKCher]

Thank you so much for that, both of you. I think the problem is I was trained as a nurse in the late 70s, and as such we always knew the diagnosis of illness X, my head is so used to that, I needed the name of what was wrong. But as you say it's the symptoms that are the problem, not the name of it.