i have heard of pseudo psychosis, thats common in BPD.
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When I first entered mental health services I was diagnosed with borderline personally disorder, that was my first diagnosis. It has been taken of my records now and I’m glad it has. I have to say its has a very high stigma associated with it.
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That’s the thing, I don’t KNOW it’s not real, but there’s a little part of me questioning it. Back then there was no questioning, I had no idea what I was doing. But for instance when I had thought insertion last month and it felt like this girl was talking to me in my head, at first I started talking back in my head to her for a while. But eventually I thought I was losing my mind and nothing was actually happening. So idk
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It’s normal to have varying levels of insight. That doesn’t invalidate the experiences you had when your insight was pretty much absent.
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Thanks, I guess I’m just trying to figure out what’s going on with me. Because I asked my doc, “well if it’s not psychosis then what is it?” and he had no idea what to say to that.
Interesting, that is a very important question. My doc thinks I’m bipolar 1 w/ psychotic features, which was my old diagnosis, and I can see what he’s saying since every time I’ve been both manic and psychotic I’ve had no insight. But then again I haven’t been manic in a year so it’s hard to tell, plus the thought insertion and thought broadcasting seem like such a common phenomenon with psychosis that I just don’t see myself thinking those things because I’m weird.
The other thing I don’t understand though is why I’m stable and I still feel so non-functional. I feel like if I am only bipolar my life should be relatively back to normal by now, but everything seems impossible and nothing is pleasurable. So to me it’s either negatives or the medication, and my pdoc refuses to consider that it’s the medication so idk
I’m really sorry to hear that, it sucks feeling doubted and dismissed. I mean clearly our thoughts are abnormal and nobody wants to address why that’s the case
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He’s a psychiatrist, I feel like he’s been doubting me ever since I started partial and first met him.
That’s the thing, I know I experience some sort of delusional thinking that is abnormal and I also have lack of action. If I was only bipolar I should be fine by now since I’m stabilized, but I’m just not as functional as I used to be and I don’t understand why unless it’s the meds.
Sorry to hear that, I didn’t have worldly delusions but I did think that ppl were out there trying to kill me. That’s why I always brought a knife with me in my pocket
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