Posted by partlycloudy on January 24, 2005, at 4:35:55
In reply to do you define yourself by your disorder(s)?, posted by smokeymadison on January 23, 2005, at 17:20:22
I think that when I finally got a dx there was a lot of relief in understanding what had been wrong for so long. Since then and as symptoms have become more manageable with medication, and my introspection improved with therapy, I feel like I've assimilated the diagnoses rather than let myself be defined by them. So, I'm partlycloudy: green carded Canadian, wife, daughter and sister, lonely but smiling faced, avid book reader, interpreter of cereal boxes and cat language, professional proscrastinator; and bipolar2, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic attacks.
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