Hello @wild_rose
I noticed your post and thought that I may be able to talk with you. There are quite a few people active on the forum who are dealing with the issues associated with BPD and also Bipolar. So I believe that connecting with some of the people here, whether for an opportunity to express how you are feeling {Venting}, wanting to talk about how your issues impact on your life, or in some of the lighter hearted social threads will, I hope, assist you in where you are at, at present.
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From my own perspective, and to give a bit of background, I have been reliably informed that my father, who passed away in 2006, suffered Bipolar. While I have not been diagnosed as having Bipolar, there are significant areas of my life where I see connections and parallels. I have been diagnosed as having ADHD and clinical depression. Both those diagnoses were provided 20+ years ago. However, I believe that some of the issues that I have faced would now have been picked up if the same services had been available then. If I were a child or teenager today, I'm pretty certain that the issues would have been sooner and better identified. Being past retirement age, I simply deal with things as well as I can, but still take a fairly high level of medication for the depression. My life history has been something like a badly managed railway – regular train wrecks, so anything that I can do that may assist others, I am more than pleased to do.
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You are at about the same age that I was when those diagnoses were given, so let's hope that you fair better than I have, not that it has all been bad for me. There are certainly a lot more resources and service providers than there was even as recently as 20 or 30 years ago. Some are very good and, from my own experience, and what I have heard from others, some are just there to pick up their paycheck. So I do hope that contacts, here on the forum will be able to give you ideas that will assist in decision making and possibly selection of potential provider choices.
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The increase in life pressures, be they of a pleasant or even joyful nature, or just general increases in commitments, often are influences that bring on, or contribute to the development of issues that may have been latent or less apparent before. That is often compounded by the desire to ignore or simply not believe that there may be latent, repressed or even more obvious symptoms or indications of problems that we may not want to believe, or to face. I believe that you are definitely not on your own in that regard. We often try to go round and push on.
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Being able to talk with other people, who have had or are experiencing similar issues, is often helpful, if only to know that our concerns are not peculiar to us individually. We never wish these things for someone else, but it is helpful to know that we are not on our own.
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Your sentence including the statement, “we are trialling new meds. I'm just after a safe space to vent and have my emotions heard without fear of judgement or being told I'm over reacting or to grow up.” is so often said when new members join that I think maybe we should have a thread just for that. However, in reality, you will find that many, if not most of the people on the forum have felt the same way and therefore will talk with you with courtesy, respect, acceptance and understanding.
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With My Best Wishes
@HenryX
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I really hope that we can assist you in your progress.
Look forward to catching up with you again, possibly later today,
With Best Wishes
@HenryX
