Well, another day another moan.
Today I have managed to get diagnonsensed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Ohhhhh, I hear you all ohhhh in unison, no don't ohhhhh. I am not best pleased with this diagnonsense for the reasons of my moan tonight.
1. The psychiatrist that diagnosed this disorder has never seen me. He is going on an old query by a one off assessment made by someone else and the notes that a CPN took- also only in one appointment.
2. This has to be one of the most over looked diagnoses made by health 'professionals'. For example, the CPN told me what she and 'her team' had decided was wrong with me, gave me a print out from MIND , proceeded to tell me that I would not be receiving any further care from 'her team' as they were for longstanding and severe mental health problems. That means for me I have no counsellor, no CPN, no GP and no shrink!
3. I am exactly where I was 2 years ago except I now have this diagnonsense over my head and a hell of a lot more scars on my body.
4. Apparently the reason people have thought that I am mentally ill is because BPD mimics Bipolar, not because I have a mental illness. That would be too easy!
5. BPD does not appear to explain my manic moods or the fact that my manic moods and my 'low' moods last for anything from a week to months, well months for 'low'; weeks for manic. BPD sufferers, like me, suffer these mood swings daily, hourly but it does not persist like mines. On a day to day basis if I am not in an 'episode' my mood swings, but if I am in an 'episode' my mood is static in that particular mood.
There are so many reasons for me to moan tonight, seriously I could go on all night but I am quite positive that of the few of you that have not fallen asleep or off your chairs are about ready to do so.
So I shall leave you with my thought of the day:
It is said that we have the same amount of hair follicles per square inch as monkeys, so does that mean that hairy men are just educated monkeys?
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Hi, I followed your link from SG- I hope you don't mind..
Your diagnosis of BPD...there could be a reason why you weren't diagnosed as such 2 years ago. If you were under 18, 21 in some countries, you weren't old enough to officailly have a personality disorder.
As for the mood swings, both BPD and BiP can have both long term and short term mood swings, so that has a lot to do with the confusion between the two disorders.
So, anyway, I hope you're doing well, and I'll see you around the board!
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