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Re: Self-Delusion and losing my mind » LlurpsieNoodle

Posted by Dinah on July 19, 2007, at 17:27:29

In reply to Self-Delusion and losing my mind, posted by LlurpsieNoodle on July 19, 2007, at 15:08:30

It's a very wide spectrum. And even if someone does put you on it somewhere, it's just a way of organizing your symptoms so that you and your health care team can get a better grasp on a good course of action. You are still the same person you were the day before, and the day before that.

I don't think you can read one or even many stories about bipolar, and think that if you are given that diagnosis, you are like them. It is just too wide a net, catching too many very different people.

I could be considered somewhere on that spectrum. My former pdoc preferred to use the term cyclothymia, but there's no doubt that some meds threw me into hypomania. I've never been manic, I don't think. And lack of sleep can also catapult me there. If I'm on antidepressants, there is no question but that I tolerate them better with a sprinkle of mood stabilizer.

To me, that's all it means.

 

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