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Watercolours
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- Feb 20, 2010
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It’s taking a long number of years... ermmm let’s count five I think, but as of today my diagnosis has changed from the unsuitable and unhelpful label of Borderline Personality Disorder which was slapped on by a very stupid NHS who couldn’t be bothered to treat me properly to Bipolar II from a Consultant Psych who has got to know me well over a year, treated me with meds, changed meds when they have not worked and listened, we’ve worked together and things have been great.
I’ve been officially in the ‘Depression Zone’ since 1999 when I was first given Prozac which sent me slightly hypomanic and scared the life out of me that I never went back to my GP, I then just flung about from depressive episode to high moods. I suspected Bipolar II from around 2004 but was too scared to do much about it, I eventually found myself in the NHS Psych services from 2005 onwards and the battle begun...
The rest they say is history... in a short version the NHS would never medicate me with a mood stabiliser stating they had never witnessed my high moods but I constantly queried that I was not likely to present to them in a high mood, I’d more likely to be sodding off half way around Europe, but they didn’t get the real me... I got sick of asking for mood stabilisers and the mood swings where making my life pure hell, I went private.
I met a fantastic psych and I got the right medication and gradually a new improved me emerged, a confident person. Yes I still get periods of depression and anxiety, I’ve just come through a recent bout of depression and anxiety which was not so nice but once again I’m back on the happy side and feeling positive about what the future holds.
So as of today I got my DX of Bipolar II, now starts the job of getting the NHS to change their record of me and I want the whole Borderline Personality Disorder label out of my records.
I’ve been officially in the ‘Depression Zone’ since 1999 when I was first given Prozac which sent me slightly hypomanic and scared the life out of me that I never went back to my GP, I then just flung about from depressive episode to high moods. I suspected Bipolar II from around 2004 but was too scared to do much about it, I eventually found myself in the NHS Psych services from 2005 onwards and the battle begun...
The rest they say is history... in a short version the NHS would never medicate me with a mood stabiliser stating they had never witnessed my high moods but I constantly queried that I was not likely to present to them in a high mood, I’d more likely to be sodding off half way around Europe, but they didn’t get the real me... I got sick of asking for mood stabilisers and the mood swings where making my life pure hell, I went private.
I met a fantastic psych and I got the right medication and gradually a new improved me emerged, a confident person. Yes I still get periods of depression and anxiety, I’ve just come through a recent bout of depression and anxiety which was not so nice but once again I’m back on the happy side and feeling positive about what the future holds.
So as of today I got my DX of Bipolar II, now starts the job of getting the NHS to change their record of me and I want the whole Borderline Personality Disorder label out of my records.