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March 7, 2006, 9:25 pm PST
Thank you for opening up to help others
Quote From: princess20I feel about like you do. I wasn't diagnosed till after I had given birth to both of my children and my depression had got severe. I work, go to school part-time for now and I am a good mother/wife. I take my meds and I can honestly say I can't relate with the people on todays show. Even some of the chat-rooms I go to I really feel like I don't belong there because I am not as severe as they are. I feel like I might be able to offer them some help of some kind but to actually relate
I really wish there would of been different levels of people suffering from BP. Sometimes people just get stuck in the drama or the worse case. Maybe he should of done a 2 hour round table show and started at the bottom (depression) and worked their way to the top (worse case of BP)
It just always seems that I don't know where I fit in at. At first I have Severe Depression,with Bipolar, just a touch of OCD, of course this all blends together and gives me the Personality Disorder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Remember that bi-polar takes from 8-10 years to diagnose. You are absolutely right that the forum should have given some time to those that have successfully conquered their problem. There are so many kinds of depression, and I believe that there are some that get labeled as OCD, bi-polar, manic/depressive, etc, and yet they may fall into a different area of the brain, and the doctors today just don't know what they are, so identify them into the above catergories. Take Alzheimers, the docs today label so many with this and it is total bullshit. So, pardon my language, but the first and foremost thing you must do, is take control of your own life, DO NOT put yourself into a category , find out about what is wrong with you. NO ONE knows you like you know yourself. Do Not accept someone telling you what is wrong with you. Educate yourself, learn about your problems, and believe me, once you do this, you will be able to help yourself more than Dr. Phil, Opra, or anyone else. Remember, you and you alone, know you. Don't abandon you. Get in touch with you, but go and look up things you need to know. Don't own a computer,, go to the library, don't understand the medical terminology.. look it up. You and only you can help yourself. From a Mom with a son who won't help himself, so maybe I can help someone else.
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