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Just wondered if you do not suffer from psychosis then how do you differentiate hypo-mania from mania. Like when does it switch?

Please excuse my ignorance, I am newly diagnosed and dont really understand my illness yet.


I feel in-between at the moment. my pdoc told me I was hypo-manic last week but I have gotten worse since. This is how I feel:

I feel high. elated. happy. joyous. delighted. excited.
I honestly feel like ...

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Been in a horribly deep depression for 7 months now with psychosis, nothing has helped. Doctors are saying I could be med resistant. I feel for everyone that is going through this. The feeling is like nothing I ever went through in my life and i'm scared. I used to be such a high achiever, now I can't remember a thing, and I have a hard time grasping concepts. Example, hard time following story lines ...

Wasn't sure where to put this, but this seems okay.

Just out of curiosity, who has else has these things to some extent?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_sensitive_person

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_snow

feel free to add your DX or suspected DX, or not.

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I never thought about it since I don't have childhood memories, but the number of alters that formed to take even the first year of abuse is mind boggling to me as I go through and ask them not their age, but when they first split and why.

Johnny Jack... I was near-drowned far more than once!

It started at 3 months old and got really bad at 8 months. It amazes me that these ...

Is obsession a feature of BPD?

I haven't so much obsessed with "belonging" to one person, but more with taking membership in paticular group. I'm not sure that the former is much different from the latter, because both seem to have to do with deriving identity from an external affiliation.

Thoughts?

I am curious which personality type is the most common among ASPDers. If there is a pattern.
Do you know which type is the most represented?

If not, here is a quick test:

http://www.personalitytype.com/career_quiz
(it takes maximum 1-2 minutes and maybe you'll learn something new)

When you click "Discover your type" there is an information form to fill in, just fill in random $#%^ and click "Continue to my personality type" - everything will be ...

When I first discovered the concept of borderline, I felt like there was a ray of hope. I knew my feelings weren't just depression, I had a deep need to find "self" and figure out who I was. But that relief is now gone. I am glad to find this forum, because I felt like I was at the end of my rope with no support. I do not have resources for therapy, but have ...

I usually post on another board but it's down and I haven't spoken to anyone in days about it.
Please help me, I'm a 23 year old male and this has come on and off since I was 17, I don't know how it originally came up but I had it for a couple of weeks when I was 17 until I got my first serious girlfriend, who I lost my virginity to, we dated ...

She asked me, " Do you love your brothers?" I replied, "No, they're annoying." She told me " Don't talk like that." Then she started crying and said, " And me? You don't love me?" I said, " I didn't say that." And then she cried. Why is it a big deal that I said I don't like my brothers? Is this something everybody's mother would cry over? I think she thinks these feelings I ...