Personality Disorders

[lucrezaborgia]

(09-28-2012 06:53 AM)leaving Wrote:  I just got diagnosed with bipolar. I am crushed and don't quite know what to think.

It's a disease like any other. Some things you have to manage differently. Some things don't change at all. For me that means taking my meds daily and working with a therapist to determine how to set expectations for myself while dealing with people's expectations of me, both realistic and otherwise.

Quote: I know that it's a real condition and I know that I am sympathetic and understanding of others with bipolar, but I am not sympathetic and understanding of myself because it feels like I should have been able to beat it.

What is there to beat? It's not like weight loss or cholesterol.

Quote:I already had my mom say that bipolar is really just an excuse given for someone who is totally self-absorbed.

Waaaa???

[JustaServant]

In order to understand why I joined the IFB world, or any of us joined, we have to look at what IFB appeared to give us what we were not getting elsewhere.
One of the key factors, I think, is stability. A solid foundation that was not experienced elsewhere in your life.