Posted by BP-Tdoc on January 8, 2010, at 20:51:27
In reply to Re: I'm new, posted by evenintherain on January 6, 2010, at 0:01:22
> i'm new too.
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> if i found out my shrink had bipolar i'd be no less confident in his or her ability to help me.
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> actually, it probably makes you more qualified? sometimes i'm worried my doctor has trouble relating.thanks for the support! i like to tell myself that it helps my work that i've been there (over and over again) so i definitely get it. But i have other days when i'm depressed or tired or both and i feel marginally competent, if even that. i have a sense that my pschopharmacologist may have BP or some mood disorder from various things he's said, and i find it tremendously reassuring. this way i know he's not judging me and he knows what this kind of suffering feels like. all of us with depression tend to underestimate anything good about ourselves. i realize i said i'm a worse shrink for having my illness but my own doctor is a better one for possibly having had it. it truly is a lifetime's work to undo the damage to self-esteem done by depression.
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