cberg wrote:
I'd strongly caution you NOT to interpret this as BPD; a lot of us get that diagnosis and identify with it %100 but I got that diagnosis from being entirely misunderstood. My family ate it up and told me I should eat expensive, dangerous pharmaceuticals (side effects may include organ failure & loss of equilibrium). Try those if you dare, I'll stick to herbs. My own dad, who complains when I so much as light a joint told me to consume drugs he couldn't even pronounce for... reasons. Suffice it to say I did not accept family pressure to consume drugs nobody understands, furthermore I have yet to be convinced anybody really understands "Bipolar"; yes it's possible to flip between personalities but as OP is well aware that's going to be different for everyone. Telling someone to go away because they're bipolar is like saying "get out of my life and hallucinate until you're normal". In most cases, a person deciding to medicate themselves for bipolar is advised to tolerate years of deleterious, unsuccessful drug regimens before encountering one they can live with.
Lithium carbonate for example, interrupts the most elementary functions of the entire brain, and we call it medicinal. From what I've seen of its' effects, it makes ALL thoughts tiresome, NOT just the depressive ones. No different from the Lithium battery in your laptop/mobile going flat after ~2500 charge cycles.
Clearly, black & white reasoning will get us nowhere. I'm pretty much in an even more 'on-off' scenario but as difficult as it looks to everybody else it really beats knowing nobody on the whole planet who understands me.
By bpd I meant borderline, not bipolar.
From what I've read about aspie relationships is that some can just lose the feelings quicker than normal and exit the relationship. Some might stick around for various reasons. There isn't the usual recycling that happens in bpd relationships.
01 Oct 2015, 12:33 pm
