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In response to: I feel I may be suffering from Bipolar or BPD please help
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Hi @Littletink_
Sounds like it might be a good idea to bring this up with your therapist and your reasons because i can hear that its something that could help you with understanding maybe. I've heard that for others here having a diagnosis that ticked more of the boxes of what they were experiencing gave them a sense of relief in many ways and wonder if this might be similar for you too. I think often, we do know ourselves fairly well and if you feel tat its more than anxiety and depression then you may be right.
For me though, i found getting the 'big' diagnoses really difficult and overwhelming. i felt that i was suddenly treated as the labels by some and there was definitely a lot of stigma attached that still worries me. I prefer sometimes to just focus on the 'symptoms' or most challenging difficulties i have at a time and try to 'do' something about them and always hoped that my therapist had the bigger picture in her mind (not sure that makes sense)... but for me it kind of worked.
Take care
In response to: I feel I may be suffering from Bipolar or BPD please help
Littletink_Senior Contributor
In response to: I feel I may be suffering from Bipolar or BPD please help
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In response to: I feel I may be suffering from Bipolar or BPD please help
Littletink_Senior Contributor
In response to: I feel I may be suffering from Bipolar or BPD please help
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