Posted by detroitpistons on March 14, 2006, at 21:49:58
In reply to Re: Never thought I'd hear this..... » detroitpistons, posted by SLS on March 14, 2006, at 13:00:10
Different points of view here about the bipolar diagnosis...Only time will tell what the real deal is. I'm just very impatient and I want an answer now...If I ever have any kind of manic/ hypomanic episode with no drugs involved, then I will become a true believer in the bipolar II diagnosis. The only problem is that I don't know when I'll ever not be on drugs. I've resisted taking them before thinking that I had become more savvy and could keep depression from spiraling out of control, but I failed. Now I'm too scared to try that again. Each time I think I've conquered it without drugs, it always comes back to bite me in the *ss.
I don't think psychotherapy can ever be a bad thing. But problems and hangups seem to go away or diminish when I'm feeling well (which hasn't been often in the past few years), and they seem too hard to talk about when depressed. I can barely think when I'm depressed. The last time I was depressed and in therapy, I would feel somewhat better after a session (and sometimes worse). Any good feelings that I may have had after therapy seemed to evaporate fairly quickly. I think that's the biological nature of it.
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