Page 2 of 4 [ 63 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4  Next

aussiebloke
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Oct 2009
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,407

28 Oct 2013, 10:15 pm

cool , like autism another one of those made up disorders according to the rabble rousers :roll:


_________________
Theirs a subset of America, adult males who are forgoing ambition ,sex , money ,love ,adventure to sit in a darkened rooms mastering video games - Suicide Bob


DeviousDani
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl

User avatar

Joined: 30 Sep 2013
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Posts: 133

29 Oct 2013, 2:56 am

Otherside wrote:
gonewild wrote:
Many of the symptoms of bipolar are nearly identical with the onset of hormone production at puberty - anyone who is in their teens needs to be aware that moodiness, changing energy levels, and confusion over the need to explore and become independent vs. the need to remain a child are part of growing up. Conflict, defiance of authority and fluctuating states of mind can be perfectly normal. Do not self diagnose! And DO NOT get caught up in the destructive gossip and misinformation of social media and pop culture. Find a medical doctor or psychiatrist to evaluate what's going on. Include your parents if possible!

I was diagnosed as bipolar nearly 30 years ago -


Not really. When you're sleeping two hours a night for weeks on end and studying 24 hours or so at a time, before falling into a depressive slump and not really doing anything but sleeping, then that's more than teenage moodiness. But, I have come across a lot of people who claim to be "bipolar", and than give examples of normal teenage moodswings. If you take a long into something called Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, it's horryfying how a lot of psychiatrists like to label anyone with ups and downs or moodiness as "bipolar". Which pisses me off. A lot of people don't seem to understand bipolar these days. And there's to many diagnosis's that are similar.

Depression, contary to popular belief, has mood swings. There's also something called Borderline PD, which also has extreme mood swings, they're simply faster, sometimes several times a day and generally, in response to an event. Of course, you can have both bipolar and borderline.

I know it's hard to get annoyed when we say "don't self diagnose". We're not saying you don't have it. We're just fed up with the amount of people who claim to have it, have no knowledge of it and no symptoms, and seem to get on perfectly in life, which has led to people asking me (diagnosed bipolar) why I can't handle it, due to the person who claims to be manic when simply "happy." Mania is elevated mood and energy, not "happy". Perphaps you do have it if you can understand what I mean by that.

But none of us on here can ultimately diagnose you. But if you haven't already, look into Borderline PD. Bipolar and Borderline are so, so often mixed up.


Yeah my mother was diagnosed with both Bipolar and Borderline personality disorder, I hadn't really considered Borderline, it sounded scary when my mum said she thought I had it a couple of years ago. I would definitely look at it, I know my mood swings are not normal teenage hormones, I am almost an adult now anyway. I know it's not normal to want to commit suicide then be really happy and not sleeping, or be really angry and imagine hurting people in sick ways, my boyfriend sent a poem to me called the swing set. I am waiting for a mental health assessment



Raziel
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 25 Oct 2011
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,612
Location: Europe

29 Oct 2013, 2:58 am

sunshower wrote:
The other one was ADHD, but in that instance I didn't self-diagnose before being professionally diagnosed.


ADHD is one of those disorders where ppl usually underestimate the severity of their symptoms - usually until their late 20s/early 30s when they start to figure out that something is wrong.

I was diagnosed with ADD a short while ago and eventhough I have about 50 psychology books at home (approx. 30 about autism) and eventhough I know my brother has ADHD I never thought I could have it. I have to mention I dx myself correctly in the past with: autism (eventhough it was always a depate if I have autism or "just" autistic tendencies), gender identity disorder, depression (I've a bipolar suspicion from my psychiatrist but neither him nor I are 100% sure about it) and a traumic anxiety reaction.

But with ADD it was different. I even didn't really belief it when I was dx with. My psychiatrist dx me with, because now I'm comming since a year to him and every time I tell him: "I can't concentrate". I just thought it's because of depression" (well partly it was, it got worse then).

A fiew weeks ago I ordered some books about ADHD/ADD and watched myself carefully. Then it was the first time were I noticed it's propably right.
I just want to say with that, that self-dx doesn't work in every single case/with every single disorder, eventhough you have a lot of knowledge about psychiatry.

aussiebloke wrote:
cool , like autism another one of those made up disorders according to the rabble rousers :roll:


Funny that you say that. ADHD is this psychiatric disorder researchers found the most genes.


_________________
"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown." - Woody Allen


Zincubus
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 17 May 2007
Age: 124
Gender: Male
Posts: 559

29 Oct 2013, 2:24 pm

FrankiDelano wrote:
I may have undiagnosed aspergers, but I am 100% sure that I am bipolar, OCD, and anxiety.

I get really bad mood swings that not even medication or illegal drugs can control. One moment I am on top of the world, the next moment even the littlest thing can make me fall to the bottom of the world. Plus the aspergers makes it hard to tell other people how I feel about said mood swings since most of them are introverted thoughts. The OCD makes it hard for me to talk to someone when one little thing about them may bug me. And the anxiety is just hurtful in every way.

You're not alone. sh**'s tough, but I believe in human resilience and the ability to overcome all odds.


OMG ... you just put many of my problems and worries in one post ! !

You are me :)



Last edited by Zincubus on 29 Oct 2013, 2:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Zincubus
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 17 May 2007
Age: 124
Gender: Male
Posts: 559

29 Oct 2013, 2:26 pm

Anyone suffering any problems or issues regarding Autism / Aspergers etc even Bi-Polar problems ......try this link

http://www.wrongplanet.net/posts182151-start420.html



Otherside
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl

User avatar

Joined: 17 Mar 2013
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Posts: 172
Location: UK

30 Oct 2013, 1:01 am

aussiebloke wrote:
the way i see it if you self DX you don't have it or it's so mild it's not a problem.


I've "self-DX'ed" and I'm actually right about mine. There was no other option. I went to a psychiatrist, I was told there was nothing wrong with me. I ended up in hospital a few months later.

It turns out that my self-DX of bipolar was correct, and that the other self DX I'd made before, Borderline, was also correct.



aussiebloke
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Oct 2009
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,407

03 Nov 2013, 9:46 pm

^^^^

well I didn't how on earth can anxiety be so bad ? 8O how many people know it can cause black outs , seziure type complaints or be so bad you can't get out of bed shaking, so weak so much pain etc etc "most people" I think it's safe to assume think it's just sweaty palm before a job interview :roll:


_________________
Theirs a subset of America, adult males who are forgoing ambition ,sex , money ,love ,adventure to sit in a darkened rooms mastering video games - Suicide Bob


pensieve
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 18 Nov 2008
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Posts: 8,204
Location: Sydney, Australia

03 Nov 2013, 10:37 pm

I'm so glad I can't understand a single word you're saying.

I self-diagnosed AS and ADHD and am now diagnosed for them.

I only really self-diagnose when the conditions are causing me extreme issues that I have no choice but to receive treatment for.

My anxiety can also be pretty incapacitating. And yes they give me seizures. Secondary generalized ones.
I saw a psychiatrist about PTSD but didn't say that's what I thought I had. This time I was leaving it all up to him. Adjustment disorder he said. I'm never letting the psychiatrist decide again. I've received no help for my PTSD. I've had to deal with it all on my own.

I guess I could say I've self-diagnosed bipolar but I'm also self-treating it and not with alcohol. I'm trying to get on top of symptoms and avoid getting into situations. I'm not always successful but I think if I dropped the label and waited to be probably diagnosed I would just think of myself as going insane. Not knowing what's going on can be more damaging than self-diagnosis.


_________________
My band photography blog - http://lostthroughthelens.wordpress.com/
My personal blog - http://helptheywantmetosocialise.wordpress.com/


Otherside
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl

User avatar

Joined: 17 Mar 2013
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Posts: 172
Location: UK

04 Nov 2013, 5:08 am

pensieve wrote:
I'm so glad I can't understand a single word you're saying.

I self-diagnosed AS and ADHD and am now diagnosed for them.

I only really self-diagnose when the conditions are causing me extreme issues that I have no choice but to receive treatment for.

My anxiety can also be pretty incapacitating. And yes they give me seizures. Secondary generalized ones.
I saw a psychiatrist about PTSD but didn't say that's what I thought I had. This time I was leaving it all up to him. Adjustment disorder he said. I'm never letting the psychiatrist decide again. I've received no help for my PTSD. I've had to deal with it all on my own.

I guess I could say I've self-diagnosed bipolar but I'm also self-treating it and not with alcohol. I'm trying to get on top of symptoms and avoid getting into situations. I'm not always successful but I think if I dropped the label and waited to be probably diagnosed I would just think of myself as going insane. Not knowing what's going on can be more damaging than self-diagnosis.


Whilst I'm fed up with the number of teenagers who decide they're bipolar due to being happy one moment and sad the next, that's not the case with me. And from what you've said on here, I don't think you're simply deciding you're bipolar because you're happy one minute and sad the next, or because it seems like a glamorous diagnosis (and believe me, there are people who do think that, and think that declaring themselves bipolar because Steven Fry, Demi Lovato and Catherine Zeta-Jones suffer from it, and thinks that makes them trendy).

I was diagnosed first with "nothing wrong with you" by a psychiatrist and then "Mixed anxiety depressive disorder". The result of both of those diagnosis's was that I received absolutely no help for them, and my problem was considered to be "mild", so I wasn't even referred for help. Which of course, only meant I ended up in hospital a few months later.

The difference though, was that I told the psychiatrist that I thought I had bipolar. And what was there reply?

"Oh no, your moods don't change fast enough for to be bipolar. DISCHARGED."



Otherside
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl

User avatar

Joined: 17 Mar 2013
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Posts: 172
Location: UK

04 Nov 2013, 5:12 am

aussiebloke wrote:
^^^^

well I didn't how on earth can anxiety be so bad ? 8O how many people know it can cause black outs , seziure type complaints or be so bad you can't get out of bed shaking, so weak so much pain etc etc "most people" I think it's safe to assume think it's just sweaty palm before a job interview :roll:


Sweaty palm before a job interview is what is called "normal". That's not anxiety.

Anxiety is when you have an overactive nervous system that means the flight or fight mechanism (which is usually only triggered when a person is in danger) is triggered sometimes at the smallest thing. I have panic disorder and that can lead to me believing that the panic attacks that I have could quite literally kill me, due to the fact that feels as though I am suffocating, have a tightness in my chest that makes me believe I am having a heart attack, and sometimes, vomitting.



aussiebloke
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Oct 2009
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,407

04 Nov 2013, 6:19 pm

^^^

I agree people are idiots I do not comment on peoples bad back etc as I am not a Dr nor do i have one people should remain silent on these matters as it only confirms what a fool these persons are the saying better to keep quite etc .

Any how I suffer from "severe" anxiety disorder + panic disorder and the best adive I got here 8O is don't fight the "SCREAM " :wink: do you like that painting Sunshower like a bad trip if you fight it it only makes it worse so I "go with the flow" even if it makes me an abnoixious giggling @ lucky for me this sort of stuff happens at the end of the day so few witness it :D in fact I see diasabilty services this week and will ask for a morning job as the nervous energy is accumlative so in the morining I'm usually sort of ok .

Good thing with a DX and medication you can work through it all to manage better I had no idea heat was bad for persons like us, in fact I was quite clueless in the past 8O


_________________
Theirs a subset of America, adult males who are forgoing ambition ,sex , money ,love ,adventure to sit in a darkened rooms mastering video games - Suicide Bob


aussiebloke
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Oct 2009
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,407

04 Nov 2013, 6:21 pm

why would you be happy that you can't understand a word I'm saying :?


_________________
Theirs a subset of America, adult males who are forgoing ambition ,sex , money ,love ,adventure to sit in a darkened rooms mastering video games - Suicide Bob


aussiebloke
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Oct 2009
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,407

04 Nov 2013, 6:24 pm

It's strange condition for years I was throwing up it came out of now where than it almost pretty much stopped even before I started taking Paxil (aropax in oz) 8O


_________________
Theirs a subset of America, adult males who are forgoing ambition ,sex , money ,love ,adventure to sit in a darkened rooms mastering video games - Suicide Bob


aussiebloke
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Oct 2009
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,407

04 Nov 2013, 6:27 pm

Otherside wrote:
aussiebloke wrote:
the way i see it if you self DX you don't have it or it's so mild it's not a problem.


I've "self-DX'ed" and I'm actually right about mine. There was no other option. I went to a psychiatrist, I was told there was nothing wrong with me. I ended up in hospital a few months later.

It turns out that my self-DX of bipolar was correct, and that the other self DX I'd made before, Borderline, was also correct.


I was in the same boat he didn't want me to put me on the pension, funny I had quotes from builders many many in fact and they never returned a quote clearly they could see I was $%^& up , one did, though he charged a mega premium for the job , went with him as I was running out of options :roll:


_________________
Theirs a subset of America, adult males who are forgoing ambition ,sex , money ,love ,adventure to sit in a darkened rooms mastering video games - Suicide Bob


sunshower
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Age: 124
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,985

05 Nov 2013, 4:25 am

aussiebloke wrote:
^^^

I agree people are idiots I do not comment on peoples bad back etc as I am not a Dr nor do i have one people should remain silent on these matters as it only confirms what a fool these persons are the saying better to keep quite etc .

Any how I suffer from "severe" anxiety disorder + panic disorder and the best adive I got here 8O is don't fight the "SCREAM " :wink: do you like that painting Sunshower like a bad trip if you fight it it only makes it worse so I "go with the flow" even if it makes me an abnoixious giggling @ lucky for me this sort of stuff happens at the end of the day so few witness it :D in fact I see diasabilty services this week and will ask for a morning job as the nervous energy is accumlative so in the morining I'm usually sort of ok .

Good thing with a DX and medication you can work through it all to manage better I had no idea heat was bad for persons like us, in fact I was quite clueless in the past 8O


yes, it's a good painting.


_________________
Into the dark...


Otherside
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl

User avatar

Joined: 17 Mar 2013
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Posts: 172
Location: UK

05 Nov 2013, 7:50 am

aussiebloke wrote:
^^^

I agree people are idiots I do not comment on peoples bad back etc as I am not a Dr nor do i have one people should remain silent on these matters as it only confirms what a fool these persons are the saying better to keep quite etc .

Any how I suffer from "severe" anxiety disorder + panic disorder and the best adive I got here 8O is don't fight the "SCREAM " :wink: do you like that painting Sunshower like a bad trip if you fight it it only makes it worse so I "go with the flow" even if it makes me an abnoixious giggling @ lucky for me this sort of stuff happens at the end of the day so few witness it :D in fact I see diasabilty services this week and will ask for a morning job as the nervous energy is accumlative so in the morining I'm usually sort of ok .

Good thing with a DX and medication you can work through it all to manage better I had no idea heat was bad for persons like us, in fact I was quite clueless in the past 8O


Odd, I've been told to fight it. Avoiding things make it worse. But then I guess it becomes a balance between avoiding all and everything that makes you anxious, and not doing things which are anxiety inducing.

A few people have seen my panic attacks. It's embarrasing.