Posted by CareBear04 on February 5, 2004, at 9:48:49
In reply to wonderful (and surprising) news, posted by Lyrical13 on February 4, 2004, at 19:38:15
hey lyrical,
i haven't been following all your posts, but i'm so glad things went well with your dad. i hope your sister gets the help she deserves. i think too many shrinks see cutting as sufficient for a diagnosis of borderline, but i'm not very sure. i don't meet many of the borderline criteria except that i have, on occasion, cut, primarily when i've been extremely and psychotically depressed. the better doctors i've had have diagnosed me as having a mood disorder and not a personality disorder. hope this helps. cb> I had an opportunity to talk with my dad about my sis. I went to pick her up for sister night and she wasn't there. We hadn't actually confirmed plans so I didn't know. Well, it worked out really well cause my dad was the only one home. I have been wanting to talk to him about the whole situation and didn't feel it was right to keep it a secret from him.
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> so my dad and I had a really good talk. He talked about what he had noticed with my sis and how frustrated he was because she seemed really angry at him and he didnt' know why. I told him what I had learned about cutting and bipolar etc. and he was very receptive. He asked for more info and for the info on the clinics that I had found. I also read a poem to him that I wrote about my sis and I. He cried and hugged me and thanked me for telling him. I felt much better. He said he would talk to step-mom about this. I told him I didn't want to get in the middle of his marriage but I really thought he had the right to know what was going on with his daughter.
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> If you want to read the poem, I'll post it at the creative writing part of psychobabble. If I post it here, Dr. Bob will probably redirect it anyway.
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> PS My pdoc was saying that cutting isn't a bipolar thing. He says it's characteristic of borderline personality disorder. What do y'all think? what dx did docs give those of you who SI?
> I didn't think it was exclusive to one dx over another.
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