Posted by Wendy B. on August 1, 2001, at 5:21:54
In reply to diagnosis debacle, posted by sar on August 1, 2001, at 1:54:59
> before i started taking meds, i was diagnosed with social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and major depression.
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> i've never stuck with one pdoc (bad, i know).
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> and now that i'm on meds, i've been diagnosed as borderline, histrionic (MOI< HISTRIONIC?!! JE NE SAIS PAS!!!), and bipolar II (mixed states).
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> in my mind, i've always been liberal, outspoken wild crazy etc...in the past, it took alcohol to bring this out in me...now that i'm much more relazed on meds (prozac + klonopin) I feel more free to be me. Add a lot of alcohol to the mix, and i do become quite dramatic.
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> what am i to make of all these diagnoses? can a social phobic be histrionic or borderline? can a unipolar experience a mixed state?
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> i am thoroughly confused.
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> thanks,
> sar
Sar,Kazoo's a hoot, no?
I agree that the diagnosis turntable/windmill/turnstile (?) is a weird one. Makes you dizzy to think of yourself in all these different ways.
Kazoo is wrong, though, that these guys (girls) are all quacks... I know you've had a really bad experience lately with the female shrink. But they're not all like that, and we shouldn't, IMHO, lump them all together as incapable clods. I've had two excellent therapists so far, with only one bad experience.. but that's another story.
By the way, histrionic isn't a dx, it's just a label, and a nasty one at that, very sexist in my opinion. When's the last time you ever heard of a MAN being called histrionic? You don't. That's because even the root of the word (Hyst-) is greek or whatever for womb. So a man's not likely to get that, right?I freaked out when I went from thinking I was just chronically depressed with anxiety and a history of panic attacks (was on Zoloft, but it pooped out, and Xanax for the anxiety) to being dx'ed with BPII. My end of the spectrum veers toward being low most of the time, but I do get charged up at other times. So it's probably mixed states, or maybe cyclothymic.
Check the response I gave on the neurontin thread on the regular babble board. I think BPII is right - borderline is different. It's when you hate other people, scream at everybody all the time, or feel like it, and everybody seems to you to be either all bad or all good, with no in between. Or this is my understanding, others may disagree...
You don't seem to have a problem relating to people (I like the other post in another thread where you talk to the man in the store with the t-shirt screaming "Hit your kids..." etc.) I think that's pretty social behavior, even though you were asking him what it meant. Looking for a fight, maybe? But then that's BPII again.
Like I said in the other post, there's a lot of reading to be found on Psycho-Babble tips, so read on, girl, and maybe some of the diagnosis questions will be answered for you...More anon,
Wendy
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