Philosophy..it is more complicated than your take on it. I really believe it is.

same here what?

Hannah, I could burden you with a few traumatic life altering psychotic 'experiences' I've lived through but I won't bother. It takes a lot, I would argue. Closer to schizophrenia than BP2 (my pdoc tells me)

Your question does pretty much suggests your dx could well be erroneous.

hanna definately didnt mean to undermine the suffering of anyone dealing with bp1...
i read it as a reference to the doctors ease of diagnosis.
i have probably stirred up some emotions on here in the past aswell..lets face it..its very easily done.
love and hugs to you all

What is 'kooth' Philosophy? Let's agree to disagree x

I'm not intentionally demeaning anyone's experience with psychosis....merely stating that what I experienced was not what I consider to be an overly serious experience with it.

I know there are people out there that have had/do have much more serious bouts of psychosis and wasn't sure that my comparitively small experience would warrant a change to BP1.

No offense was intended...I apologize to anyone who was offended by it.

BUT....this thread was hijacked and I made to be a fool for asking it. I, for one, think that people with BP2 suffer as much as BP1, just different symptoms.

I feel a group hug coming on.

everyone has stirred up emotions around here, it's no biggie.

I hope you're not taking it too hard, Hannah.
I saw it more as a big ol' DS debate/squabble rather than an attack on you.
peace x

You called it Curious, heh :)

I think anyone who knows Hanna after all this time, well knows she doesnt have a sarcastic or demeaning bone in her body. I recieved her question as meaning.......is that all it takes for a doctor to change your diagnosis, nothing more.

There seems to be alot of "sensitivity" from all sides in this thread but I dont recall anyone outrightly obliterating BP1 as someone has BP2. Let us not forget that we all suffer in our own ways through this disorder and it isnt about who has what but rather how we can help each other through it.

Hanna, I think some docs are "easy" to change a diagnosis to fit symptoms especially when they havent experienced them theirselves. They follow the written criteria that is in front of them. I think what is most important is that you learn how to take care of "you" and the symptoms that you do have. Many times docs classify diagnosis for purposes of treatment alone. Its possible that is all your doc has done.

I think it was a valuable question and misinterpreted by some. I know you too well to ever think there was any calousness in it. Just take care of you sweetie. Hugs

Ok...What are the 'different symptoms"?

I would argue that BP1 can cover everything experienced by BP2 + much, much, mindblowingly more. True

Pdocs I have spoken to over the years call BP2 "minor fluctuations" compared to BP1.
& Schizophrenia is even more dreadful than that.

Not a competition- fact.

Yes, everyone suffers..but the challenges are *different*

I'm slightly offended...but not taking it too much to heart. It's as you said Lou, just a DS debate/squabble.

im hugging my laptop....as my friends live in it!

Captain Vague says..

"hey guys, things like this happen when we get into the thing versus the other thing stuff..it's like emotional and people sometimes you know misread a bit and things get taken the wrong way..it was you know an ok question and the answers too, lets not make more stuff out it it, yeah, you dig?"

Shelly, with respect, you may not like it...but it's not going to go away.

I love all the beepers on DS.

.just think it means something to me to emphasize the differences...

not that one wins the Pain Olympics.:

but that there are very difficult challenges of a different kind with iBP1&..likewise different realm of challenges with bp2 (with some overlap)

If not making sense I've popped evening pills

Hope I haven't offended anyone further