COMPARISON: BiPolar Disorder vs BPD
anker:
I'm diagnosed bipolar II because I've never had a manic episode. My depression didn't respond to Prozac alone but when they added lithium I started feeling better.
I'm in emdr therapy right now.
PwBPD don't often seek treatment on their own do they? Do people with bipolar (either kind)?
anker:
Oh I asked my pdoc the difference. She said "you've had a mixed episode. Imagine that ALL the time. That's how pwBPD feel. They have different reasons and motivations too."
That make sense to anyone else? I know the one mixed episode I had was awful. I was depressed but not apathetic. High energy unease and anxiety and sadness. I can't imagine feeling that way again... .I know a lot of people with bipolar have mixed episodes more often than that. But thinking of it that way I can understand how crappy pwBPD must be feeling, to act the way they do.
PotentiallyKevin:
Quote from: anker on June 28, 2010, 07:00:47 PM
Oh I asked my pdoc the difference. She said "you've had a mixed episode. Imagine that ALL the time. That's how pwBPD feel. They have different reasons and motivations too."
That make sense to anyone else? I know the one mixed episode I had was awful. I was depressed but not apathetic. High energy unease and anxiety and sadness. I can't imagine feeling that way again... .I know a lot of people with bipolar have mixed episodes more often than that. But thinking of it that way I can understand how crappy pwBPD must be feeling, to act the way they do.
From my own experience, the worst mixed episode I had almost ended my life. There is no worse feeling in the entire world. When I was depressed, I was fine. I didn't have the energy to do anything about it, basically it sucked, but eventually blew over. When I was manic, life was great, nothing could stop me... .but he mixed episode was horrible. I couldn't sit still, couldn't sleep, was anxious as all hell, had loads of energy, but instead of the grandiose thinking, it was extreme anxiety... .I couldn't eat, I would just throw everything up... .it was a living hell. If borderlines do in fact, experience a feeling like a mixed episode, I pity them... .there is no worse feeling in the entire world... .
anker:
That was what she said. Like the high anxiety and sadness along with plenty of energy... .
That's how their disregulation feels. She told me to look up "dysphoria"; I haven't had time yet.
PotentiallyKevin:
By the way, Mixed episodes are also the time of the highest suicide rate in people with Bipolar disorder. Mixed episodes usually happen in the spring time. Kay Redfield Jamison has a theory that during spring, with the increased sunlight, the energy comes back, but the winter blues haven't quite worn off, creating a horrible combination. Suicides happen more during March and April more than any other month, which doesn't make any sense... .you would think December or January... .but maybe the mixed episodes seem to be why?
Anker, do you happen to suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder? Most BPIIs (50%) suffer from SAD. I still get it bad. I have light that I use during the winter time.
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