[RonPrice]

OCPD AND PTSD

1. In one study of 60 patients with bipolar disorder(BPD), 23 (38%) fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for at least one personality disorder. Having suffered from BPD now for 70 years, I found this of interest.....Those personality disorders most commonly were: narcissistic, borderline, antisocial, avoidance disorder and obsessive-compulsive. In my case the obsessive-compulsive personality disorder(OCPD) and post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD) have been the most dominant; I can now see looking back over seven decades of living, 1943 to 2014, periodic manifestations of both OCPD and PTSD at various points in my life-narrative.

The presence of these other disorders sometimes make BPD symptoms more intense and more difficult to treat; they also appear to increase the risk of suicide. I will deal with my suicidal ideation later in this account of what I sometimes call my chaos narrative. This account is about BPD, by a person with BPD. My account only ventures into these several other psychiatric illnesses and personality disorders to a limited extent, and only from time to time when it seems relevant. I will deal with these other disorders in my life briefly in the next several sections before continuing this account of BPD.

2. In a list of ten basic symptoms of obsessive-compulsive personality disorder(OCPD), I possessed six symptoms rated at 5 or above on a 10 point scale in January 2010. I will not list these symptoms of OCPD here since this narrative and analysis is a focus on BPD, but readers can easily Google OCPD, if they are interested. Wikipedia is an informative source for information on OCPD. The pattern of behaviours for my OCPD has been highly diverse rather than stable over the years as far back as my childhood & has become more dominant, as I say, in my late adulthood, the years after the age of sixty according to one model of human development used by psychologists for the stages of the lifespan. In the last decade, 60 to 70, I have been on a series of medications for anti-depressant and an anti-psychotic disorders. I will discuss this new medication regime in more detail later in this story. People with OCPD are ridden with anxiety. This overstates my level of anxiety. By contrast, people with OCPD tend to derive pleasure from their obsessions or compulsions. This is the case with me, although not my wife who has to endure them on a daily basis now in my retirement and being at home most of the time.
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I could post more on this topic and will, if invited by readers here.-Ron

[Blue_Bird]

Thanks for sharing this info, I'm sure someone dealing with these issues may find it helpful!

[RonPrice]

I hope so, Blue Bird-Ron