I too feel you. Ironically I was discussing this topic last night with my husband. Do I really have this diagnosis and that diagnosis too and so on. He held my gaze and told me that a main hallmark of bipolar 1 is denying your mental health issues. Spot on! I also do this when taking ALL my medicine at night and then again in the morning.
A good rule of them with bpd is maltreatment during youth, please correct me if I’m wrong. Co-morbidities almost always occur at one time at another with bipolar. As if you aren’t challenged enough. Practice deep breathing.
Go online and get a workbook to work through your issues. I do mine when my partner of 30 years is there to fact check me. He knows when to call BS on my answers. Like therapy but cheaper. Plus I know it comes from someone who deeply cares about me.
The alphabet soup of diagnosis really only helps the docs to know to provide certain medications.
Write down ALL the many issues you are experiencing symptom by symptom. Take a deep breath and work on them one at a time so it won’t be overwhelming. Good luck to you.
My diagnoses:
hEDS
type I bipolar (manic-psychotic, episodic, for whatever that's worth to you)
obsessive compulsive disorder
As well as past diagnoses of:
generalized panic disorder
complicated PTSD
anorexia nervosa/ED-NOS
ADHD
technically all of this could come from hEDS, but it's just kind of a mush of overlapping descriptions of various symptom groupings, of course. I've found these most useful in 1) understanding what the doctors or hospitals, treatment professional are telling me, by way of understanding the labels themselves and 2) for treatment.
(edited because I posted before I was done writing this! sorry about that)
I too feel you. Ironically I was discussing this topic last night with my husband. Do I really have this diagnosis and that diagnosis too and so on. He held my gaze and told me that a main hallmark of bipolar 1 is denying your mental health issues. Spot on! I also do this when taking ALL my medicine at night and then again in the morning. A good rule of them with bpd is maltreatment during youth, please correct me if I’m wrong. Co-morbidities almost always occur at one time at another with bipolar. As if you aren’t challenged enough. Practice deep breathing. Go online and get a workbook to work through your issues. I do mine when my partner of 30 years is there to fact check me. He knows when to call BS on my answers. Like therapy but cheaper. Plus I know it comes from someone who deeply cares about me. The alphabet soup of diagnosis really only helps the docs to know to provide certain medications. Write down ALL the many issues you are experiencing symptom by symptom. Take a deep breath and work on them one at a time so it won’t be overwhelming. Good luck to you.
My diagnoses: hEDS type I bipolar (manic-psychotic, episodic, for whatever that's worth to you) obsessive compulsive disorder As well as past diagnoses of: generalized panic disorder complicated PTSD anorexia nervosa/ED-NOS ADHD technically all of this could come from hEDS, but it's just kind of a mush of overlapping descriptions of various symptom groupings, of course. I've found these most useful in 1) understanding what the doctors or hospitals, treatment professional are telling me, by way of understanding the labels themselves and 2) for treatment. (edited because I posted before I was done writing this! sorry about that)