Posted by Racer on December 15, 2007, at 16:34:39
In reply to Re: I have severe rage/anger/homicidal thoughts.. help, posted by oldschool305 on December 14, 2007, at 16:18:36
> > > I have diagnosed myself (Dr. Cynthia in the house.. lol) with bipolar!!! These never ending mood swings...
>Actually, what you're describing doesn't sound like bipolar to me. It sounds more like borderline PD. A lot of doctors seem to use this diagnosis as a way to say "patient I don't like dealing with," but it's actually a legitimate diagnosis, and there are a lot of treatments that can be very helpful. The best, of course, is therapy, but there are also a lot of medications that are very helpful. Risperdal comes up a lot, and a lot of people I know do well with it. If you look at BPD as a problem with emotional impulse control, it might help with finding medications that will be surprisingly effective.
As for taking your mother's medications, which it sounds as though you're doing, don't do that with Lamictal. For Lamictal, more than almost any other medication, you really do need to have a doctor's supervision as you titrate up. It's never a good idea to diagnose and prescribe to yourself, using someone else's medications, but in the case of Lamictal -- it can cause some pretty devastating side effects, and it's important to have a doctor's supervision. (I won't comment beyond saying that there are some very good reasons to have a doctor prescribe medications for you, rather than guessing on your own and taking something prescribed for another individual.)
I'm always afraid that people will take it wrong is I suggest BPD, but if you read some of what Marsha Linehan has written about it, it might give you a very different picture -- she's very compassionate about it, and her descriptions of the sorts of childhood interactions that could be part of creating it really increased my compassion for those who have it. (And actually, even if you don't have BPD, some of Linehan's DBT exercises can still be very helpful...)
Good luck.
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