Posted by Quintal on September 6, 2008, at 19:58:14
In reply to Re: Bipolar Spectrum »Toph » Quintal, posted by Racer on September 6, 2008, at 19:33:56
Thank you posr posting this Racer. I took my zopiclone half an hour ago, so I'd best keep it short and quick.
>Wouldn't you rather be Quintal, a very creative, generous, nurturing, playful -- I don't know you, so I can't tell what works best for you -- who also suffers from bipolar with all the challenges that go along with it?
Yes, that's the way I see myself. I think my psychologist thinks I hold some sort of fixed idea of bipolar being me. She admits she can't see who I really am, but I know who I am, and it's not bipolar disorder. This is what irritates me - she jumps to conclusions. It worries me when people introduce themselves as "I am bipolar II, social anxiety disorder, fibromyalgia etc". So I see exactly where she's coming from, and I agree.
I do think she holds a naive idea though, that once I give up thinking about myself as having bipolar disorder the illness will go away. That's what really bugs me. For over a year I agreed with my pdoc's view that I was basically moody and there was nothing more to it than that, so the manic psychosis that followed at the end of that year seem to cast doubt over that theory.
I think I'll leave it there for tonight. More tomorrow.
Q
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