Bipolar Disorder Support Group
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I was diatnosed with borderline personality disorder by one psychiatrist a few years ago, then just recently diagnosed with bipolar by anoher and when I asked my gp he said i may have a bit of both, is this possible
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I find myself going places in the car and not wanting to get out of the car. I come back home and I don't want to get out of the car. I think it's the only time I spend reflecting. Chronic tiredness from Long Covid plus the immunosupressing meds for my Crohn's is slowing me down but everything just seems a massive effort. I am dealing with the paperwork following my father's death but it's not...
When you look at the root of both disorders you can see how the chances you will have both are reasonably high.
Or it may be that one of the dignosises is wrong. I don't think a GP could tell - maybe go for a second opinion from a psychiatrist?
When I asked her what that MEANT, she said he figured that I had SOME form of a personality order, except that he couldn't get his head around what it was! So I GUESS that a whole lot of these array of things may be based upon educated guesses....I once read that psychiatry ANYWAY was only ever 50%science to begin with; the rest of it is pure speculation and surmise!