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Q: Frustrated - I Don't Know Where to Turn
I'm 25 years old and have been going through 12 years of
unlucky,unqualified phychiatric help.As i'm getting older I find it almost
near impossible to wake up to another day of struggle.I start with a doctor
and it's good for the first few weeks to a month I feel like this is the one
doctor that is going to help me and then it all happens the doctor does or
says something that I may disagree with or he gives me a medication{mainly
antipsychotics} that i have horrible side effects and i loose faith and hope
and I stop going.I've gotten to almost the end I'm having trouble just
breathing I moved to a different state to get away thinking somewhere new
will help and then that it's worst. I have so much trouble working. There's
periods of times where I can't remember what's going on in my life. I
recently moved a few months again to another state because I couldn't handle
anything anymore and left my 6 yr old child with my family thinking they
will all be better off without me and now in a new state and horribly guilty
about leaving my baby and family and with everything else under my belt I
don't know where to turn I've been diagnosed with
bordrline,bipolar,anxiety,ocd,bdd and have very little or no trust with
doctors exspecially state help. I have no money and no where to go and I
really think at the brink of insanity I don't know how live anymore.I had so
many questions and now I don't know what they where and am quiet sure you
will not see this. I guess I'm just rambling on out of fustration.
Dear Nicole --
Your frustration is understandable. Your experience is shared by many
(mostly women, unfortunately). Your pattern of "overvaluing and
devaluing" is common, and even people who do not feel these things as
strongly as you do can show that pattern, to a degree. The key in the
long run is to plant yourself in a community you'd like to stay in; find a
therapist and/or psychiatrist who's "good enough", then stick with
them even when you find them to be idiots, as you probably will as things go
along. Read more about treatment of "borderline personality
disorder" and how it is so hard to distinguish from bipolar disorder,
and why ultimately it doesn't make that much difference what you call it, in
this
essay on my
site. Good luck to you.
Dr. Phelps
Published July, 2001
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