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Posted by Omidak on September 3, 2014, at 12:21:45
I'm just wondering what it could be with me. It doesn't fit bipolar somehow (and I don't have the diagnosis anyways). they say it's schizophrenia but i cut back my zyprexa from 30 to 5 mg a month ago and nothing psychotic happend (get too agitated if I don't take it at all though.) I also went off effexor 150mg, topiramat 300mg and another horse killer tranquilizer not available anywhere but Germany cold turkey at the same time and still nothing happend.
I'm just wondering whether I have rather non-chemical stuff going on with me.
my problem is that i have mood swings, NOT. I don't have mood swings. I have incosistency of personality. my personality and wishes and behaviour changes and alters on a daily basis. today, I'm not depressed at all, but I feel like a completely different person with different wishes, different attitude, mindset and all that. yesterday i was a teenager today I'm a grandpa.
This makes life really hard on me because I want to decide what to do with my life, job and education wise, and I cant decide because every day I'm literally suited for totally contrasting jobs and lifestyles. Like yesterday I thought it might be a good idea to go to university where i have people around me but today I'm back to (trying) to do 3d-art from home all alone. And I can't even imagine why I would decided to be social yesterday because today I'm a completely different person and can't understand my motives from yesterday.
obviously, I can't be considered crazy. lerning programming at the university isn't necessarily a crazy idea, neither is being a 3D artist working from home. my thinking, speech, reasoning are all intakt, even much more so than some people around me who are considered healthy. but I feel like I have something like multiple personalities or a changing personality for some reason. I'm very much aware that dissociative identity disorder is not what I'm describing here, but if I had to choose between schizophrenia, bipolar and DID, DID would be the best choice kind of.
what do you think about this? is it DID? what is this?
I must add that my mood, personality, feeling, whatever changes DRASTICALLY when I go to different places. like I was recently in my home country in the middle east and I was a whole different person. Also when I went to london i felt quite different, in a good way. but now back in germany i feel bad and I also have no recollection of what and how I was in my home country or london. I cant even remember the details. DID?!
Posted by baseball55 on September 3, 2014, at 18:48:28
In reply to bipolar or multiple personality sort of ?!, posted by Omidak on September 3, 2014, at 12:21:45
This doesn't sound like any DSM disorder, but just an unstable, perhaps evolving, sense of self. A good dynamic therapist could help you figure things out, probably.
Posted by Beckett on September 4, 2014, at 8:56:15
In reply to Re: bipolar or multiple personality sort of ?! » Omidak, posted by baseball55 on September 3, 2014, at 18:48:28
Could cyclothymia be a component?
Posted by SLS on September 4, 2014, at 9:09:51
In reply to bipolar or multiple personality sort of ?!, posted by Omidak on September 3, 2014, at 12:21:45
Go see a specialist if resolving this is important to you.
As a layman, my impression is that you do not suffer from bipolar disorder, nor schizophrenia, nor DID.
- Scott
Posted by Phillipa on September 4, 2014, at 9:32:24
In reply to Re: bipolar or multiple personality sort of ?!, posted by SLS on September 4, 2014, at 9:09:51
I thought the same. Sounds a lot like changing mood due maybe to what's going on in your life? Philllipa
Posted by phidippus on November 4, 2014, at 22:25:20
In reply to bipolar or multiple personality sort of ?!, posted by Omidak on September 3, 2014, at 12:21:45
> my problem is that i have mood swings, NOT. I don't have mood swings. I have incosistency of personality. my personality and wishes and behaviour changes and alters on a daily basis.
On a daily basis or do you change during a day?
>I feel like a completely different person with different wishes, different attitude, mindset and all that.
But you are still you and aware you have changed. Its not like you wake not knowing who you are.
> This makes life really hard on me because I want to decide what to do with my life, job and education wise
Since your putting on guises every day you can think of them as try outs.
>like yesterday I thought it might be a good idea to go to university where i have people around me but today I'm back to (trying) to do 3d-art from home all alone.
What dramatic personality change came with this decision?
>I'm a completely different person and can't understand my motives from yesterday.
Its just crazy to think you're a different person because you can't understand the choices you made yesterday. All of us do this.
>I feel like I have something like multiple personalities or a changing personality for some reason.
What changes in you make you feel this way? You don't speak in a different tone of voice and hunch over do you?
> what do you think about this? is it DID? what is this?
Its not DID. You don't have different personalities with differing awareness of each other.
> I must add that my mood, personality, feeling, whatever changes DRASTICALLY when I go to different places.
I think this too happens to most people.
>DID?!
No. If anything you're having some kind of conversion disorder where you are tryingg to manifest the symptoms of DID.
Eric
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