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A week or so ago I received a new diagnosis of possible bipolar 2. I was diagnosed previously depression with borderline traits. At the moment I'm yet to be convinced that the bipolar diagnosis fits. Even though I was only previously diagnosed with BPD traits, I identified with that far more than I do with bipolar.

My question is, is the fear of abandonment and the feelings of emptiness I struggle with all the time ...

Do any of you get very anxious, like the level of triggered, by conversations with police officers? Today at work, someone scammed Rachel out of 100 dollars and somewhere between being tricked-- which she said felt like a violation-- and the resulting conversation with the police-- in which they kept demanding her to repeat herself and when she began to cry, told her it was alright, that she was the victim in the situation-- she ...

Trigger warnings for brief, un-detailed mentions of abuse, suicide

20, female

As the subject of suggests, I am new to these boards. Moreover, I am new to concept of being avoidant and having a name to what I've understood as normal for myself has opened up the complicated self-defeating and self-perpetuating dynamics that have been left unaddressed for many years.

After finally moving out of my parent's house and going into college, I am having ...

For me living with mental illness is knowing that

my mind is labeled

and

my body is handicapped

this is me because i have schizophrenia paranoid type and my body is not on par.

I'm nineteen and it never got better. I have spent so much time in my life trying to find a small group of friends that I really feel connected to.

I look at peoples' facebook walls and they have people write on them and it is clear that they have close, half a decade long friendships with others. On my wall, my picture shows up over and over. It's just my statuses and hardly anyone ...

I'm diagnosed as schizophrenia paranoid type and I want to say that the only symptom I have is "Jumping from one subject to another and saying things that don't make sense". In other words I can not organize my thoughts so good. I must have two symptoms to be diagnosed, one symptom that I do not want associated with my schizophrenia is "No interest or feelings about anything". I have been wrote up as being ...

I've been incredibly switchy lately, and any chance I have of letting them (Mainly TK and C) come out, they get us all extremely hyper and jumpy, sometimes horny too. What can I do to let them out front without them getting all hopped up? Thanks!

Hi..I just joined here to try and understand other people's experiences with getting sober and how to start doing it. I got out of the ER about 20 hours ago and am feeling really anxious, stressed, sweaty, cold and confused. I told them I wasn't ready to leave, but the doctors said there was no reason to keep me now that my BAC was safe. When I went in it was over 300. I've done ...

This is my first time talking about my personality, so forgive me if I sound un-ordinary. As a kid I was very quiet, and the friends I had were made through repetition. Everyone said I was just shy. In high school I made friends with similar hobbies. It wasn't until college that I realized there are social norms and etiquette people use. After a while hanging out with my friends I got bored and we ...

Hi, I'm new here.

I'm here mostly because of a recent diagnosis of DID, but I pretty much have an alphabet soup of diagnoses. The ones that are currently relevant are major depression, PTSD, EDNOS (sub-threshold bulimia), and social anxiety disorder. I've been on pretty much every med in the psych section of the PDR, to no avail. I also had 29 ECT's, which left me memory-impaired and still depressed.

I'm in an alternative/holistic treatment ...