Posted by LlurpsieNoodle on July 20, 2007, at 9:14:12
In reply to Re: Self-Delusion and losing my mind » LlurpsieNoodle, posted by Dinah on July 19, 2007, at 17:27:29
> It's a very wide spectrum. And even if someone does put you on it somewhere, it's just a way of organizing your symptoms so that you and your health care team can get a better grasp on a good course of action. You are still the same person you were the day before, and the day before that.
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> I don't think you can read one or even many stories about bipolar, and think that if you are given that diagnosis, you are like them. It is just too wide a net, catching too many very different people.
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yes. some of the stories are tragic, and some are triumphant. I just wonder what my story is> I could be considered somewhere on that spectrum. My former pdoc preferred to use the term cyclothymia, but there's no doubt that some meds threw me into hypomania. I've never been manic, I don't think. And lack of sleep can also catapult me there. If I'm on antidepressants, there is no question but that I tolerate them better with a sprinkle of mood stabilizer.
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umm wellbutrin was a disaster for me. 23 hours a day of hyped-up nausea. Lack of sleep, same as you. In fact, I think that most of my dissertation was written in a state of agitated insomniac mixed-episodeness. Or maybe it's just the insanity of the institution?> To me, that's all it means.
I wish life were as easy as babble sometimes. People say thoughtful things, and don't communicate their disappointment or disgust of my personage. Thanks, Dinah
-Ll
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