Off-topic (I will get back on topic though) but I have BPD too. I'm currently taking an antipsychotic which helps with the intense emotions. Maybe talk to your doctor about that? But obviously be careful if you suspect your doc will over prescribe them. They are nasty and I went through two months of hell before the side effects wore off and the medication steadied out. Medical Marijuana is also something to talk about if it is legal in your country (I'm in Canada). It helps PTSD sufferers and neurologically speaking, the way your brain develops when you have them are very similar (look at brain scans and certain symptoms, wiki talks a bit about it).amuto_lover wrote:right !! it's so easy these days for people to diagnose themselves with depression and anxiety. you go to the doctor tell him your depressed and he'll chuck tablets at you. I was taking anti depressants for months getting sadder and sadder because I knew they weren't making any difference a couple of months down the line of plunging deeper and deeper into the depths of hell I was finally diagnosed with bpd and my symptoms started making sense. I still haven't received any therapy yet because of the long ass waiting list and they've taken me off of anti depressants because they can't help my symptoms. Then Chinderella wakes up one morning feeling broken, goes on a vacation for 7 odd months and she's all better, I wish it was that fucking easy. When I manage to summon up a little bit of motivation for life it gets dashed in a few hours. I wish I could afford therapy.Trololol wrote:The fuck... she can afford to see a therapist. How do you milk sympathy before you've even been officially diagnosed????amuto_lover wrote:I took online quizzes so it must be true.
This though leads into my relating comment about Michelle diagnosing herself. She has a very young audience and she will influence young people to start thinking they have depression when they are just sad. Children with depression are already not taken seriously and to cause a potential influx of children who don't have anything will just make that worse. Now, what I'm actually more afraid of is what Michelle is saying besides the self-diagnosis issue. She is telling people they don't need to find help, that they should fix themselves and not seek professional help. As a child I didn't know what depression was or thought a child could have it (despite a suicide attempt even before my teens). I never thought to ask for help, tell my parents, or try and get help until very recently as an adult. Even in my teens when I knew what depression was I felt no push to get official help. There are few role models out there who will tell people that it's ok to seek help (in recent times it has sort of come up, but not nearly enough). That is one reason I got BPD today. She is just broadcasting a terrible and damaging bunch of propaganda to such an impressionable audience. It infuriates me.
It also infuriates me that she has money and all the opportunity in the world yet she is deciding not to take advantage of it and didn't even book a single appointment with a shrink. I'd kill to have that much money simply to be able to afford to see a psychologist even twice a month. But I guess a shrink could tell her that she is wrong
nothing original as always..
