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Topic: RE: Bi Polar and medications?!?!
In my experience, Lexapro did not result in weight gain. You may want to ask your psychiatrist about Abilify, Depakote, Lithium. The meds don't make you gain weight. They may have properties that cause your body to retain water. They may increase your appetite. Just remember to use your tool (pouch), and up your water. Also, as you have weight loss, dosages may need to be adjusted. Depakote and Lithium require blood draws to check levels.
Just work closely with your doc. Better to have your meds on board, for emotional stability, as your progress through this journey of better health, and lighter body!
Best of luck to ya!
Just work closely with your doc. Better to have your meds on board, for emotional stability, as your progress through this journey of better health, and lighter body!
Best of luck to ya!
Every morning in Africa
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning inAfrica
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.
RNY 2/9/09 Buh bye Gallbladder 8/28/09; 100% EWL (181 lbs.) on 2/19/10;
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.
RNY 2/9/09 Buh bye Gallbladder 8/28/09; 100% EWL (181 lbs.) on 2/19/10;
Topic: RE: Borderline personality disorder??
Please refer to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV-R. You can look up the diagnostic criteria for each of the disorders you have asked about. I respectfully disagree with the previous posters description of borderline personality d/o.
Here is a brief description:
Borderline Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
(2) a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization or devaluation
(3) identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
(4) impulsivity in at least 2 areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
(5) recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
(6) affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
(7) chronic feelings of emptiness
(8) inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
(9) transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
Bipolar d/o is an axis one (Clinical disorder)
Borderline Personality d/o is an axis two (personality d/o's and mental retardation)
An expert working with "borderlines" is Marsha Linnehan, from University of Washington. Quite a bit of research with Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
FIND OUT WHAT CRITERIA YOU MET FOR AN AXIS 2 DX. Don't take it lightly....
Best of luck to ya-and sorry I wrote so much...but it's kinda "my thang!"
Kathy
Here is a brief description:
Borderline Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
(2) a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization or devaluation
(3) identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
(4) impulsivity in at least 2 areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
(5) recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
(6) affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
(7) chronic feelings of emptiness
(8) inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
(9) transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms
Bipolar d/o is an axis one (Clinical disorder)
Borderline Personality d/o is an axis two (personality d/o's and mental retardation)
An expert working with "borderlines" is Marsha Linnehan, from University of Washington. Quite a bit of research with Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
FIND OUT WHAT CRITERIA YOU MET FOR AN AXIS 2 DX. Don't take it lightly....
Best of luck to ya-and sorry I wrote so much...but it's kinda "my thang!"
Kathy
Every morning in Africa
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning inAfrica
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.
RNY 2/9/09 Buh bye Gallbladder 8/28/09; 100% EWL (181 lbs.) on 2/19/10;
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.
RNY 2/9/09 Buh bye Gallbladder 8/28/09; 100% EWL (181 lbs.) on 2/19/10;
Topic: RE: Borderline personality disorder??
hey, im sctually bpd and bp. bordline personality is normal when people do things in extreems. like me for instance when i shop i will spend every penny litteraly. or like before i had the surgery when i got upset i would bake. but i would go and but like 12 boxes of cake and make them all. then there would be times when i would be sooooo down that i would not talk to anyone. basicly jumping from one thing to the next with no time to relax in the middle. hope this makes sence. and bi polar is simmilar. depending on wich type you have
Topic: Bi Polar and medications?!?!
idk where to start, i guess w/ i am 3 months out rny gastric bypass. i was previously diognosed with bi polar disorder and bpd. when going for surgery i had stoped my meds about a few weeks befor hand. now i think i mite be needing medication again. only problem is the clinic i go to the doc dosent really know much about my surgery. i need medication but i dont want to gain weight while i am still working on loosing. i didnt have this surgery to go backwards. previously i was on seraqul and lexapro. but now like i said i need to find a medication that dosent effect my weight. if anyone knows of any please let me know.
Topic: ~SPIRITUAL NOT RELIGIOUS~ A DAY AT A TIME
06/06 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
Adjusting myself to things as they are, and being able to love without trying to interfere with or control anyone else, however close to me -- that's one of the important things I search for and can find in The Program. The learning is sometimes painful; however, the reward is life itself -- full and serene. IS THE PROGRAM HELPING RESTORE ME TO A SANE AND REASONABLE WAY OF THINKING, SO I CAN HANDLE MY INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING?
TODAY I PRAY
May I respect those that I love enough to set them free -- to stop controlling, manipulating, scheming, bailing them out of trouble. May I love them enough to let them make their own mistakes and take responsibility for them. May I learn to let go.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Loving is letting go.
Adjusting myself to things as they are, and being able to love without trying to interfere with or control anyone else, however close to me -- that's one of the important things I search for and can find in The Program. The learning is sometimes painful; however, the reward is life itself -- full and serene. IS THE PROGRAM HELPING RESTORE ME TO A SANE AND REASONABLE WAY OF THINKING, SO I CAN HANDLE MY INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING?
TODAY I PRAY
May I respect those that I love enough to set them free -- to stop controlling, manipulating, scheming, bailing them out of trouble. May I love them enough to let them make their own mistakes and take responsibility for them. May I learn to let go.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Loving is letting go.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
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on 6/5/09 9:57 pm - NH
on 6/5/09 9:57 pm - NH
Topic: Borderline personality disorder??
I am sorry for continually posting about my mental health illnesses, I have been newly diagnosed with bipolar and borderline personality disorder.
I do not know if I quite believe I have either of these so I am hoping someone with borderline personality disorder might PM with their symptoms or how they understand what BPD is to them?
I am joining a support group here in my town and then I will stop posting ,
I do not know if I quite believe I have either of these so I am hoping someone with borderline personality disorder might PM with their symptoms or how they understand what BPD is to them?
I am joining a support group here in my town and then I will stop posting ,
Topic: RE: Suicide is not an option...
I have had suicidal ideations in my lifetime, and thank God that I have never succeeded on my feeble attempts. My ex-husband's father committed suicide when we were first married. It devastated and scarred my ex forever. I now work in a psychiatric hospital part time and see patients who have tried. The depression and shame they experience is so deep.
I have a friend who just told me that her 13 year old grandson's father just committed suicide this week. That boy will be scarred for life.
The problem with suicide is that it causes a permanent pain in the loved ones left behind.
Please, to anyone suffering with suicidal thoughts, tell someone. Call a hotline. Get to an emergency room. Whether you believe it or not, people do care about you.
Hugs,
Trish
I have a friend who just told me that her 13 year old grandson's father just committed suicide this week. That boy will be scarred for life.
The problem with suicide is that it causes a permanent pain in the loved ones left behind.
Please, to anyone suffering with suicidal thoughts, tell someone. Call a hotline. Get to an emergency room. Whether you believe it or not, people do care about you.
Hugs,
Trish
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Topic: RE: Suicide is not an option...
Ramon,
I am so glad to hear you are sober again. Congratulations on three weeks. That is awesome.
Keep working the program. Remember that God is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves.
Hugs,
Trish
I am so glad to hear you are sober again. Congratulations on three weeks. That is awesome.
Keep working the program. Remember that God is doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves.
Hugs,
Trish
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Topic: RE: Stressed now ...taking away Cymbalta
Thanks so much, can use prayers right now. Anytime really, lol. But, unfortunately, my doctor did not understand and took cymbalta away completely. Completely. This morning I'm sitting here thinking how did that happen? I can't handle that on top of surgery. Oh my. I'll have to work this out, so prayers are quite welcome.
Walking with you on this journey, Mary
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Topic: RE: Naltrexone
Thank you, Trish. The program that I am going to has on-site meetings that I will attend. I have read a lot about Naltrexone and I knew about the pain management concerns. I'll talk more to the Dr. about that too. Right now I am taking baby steps thru all of this, being very cautious.
Seems like you are always the one to reply to everyone on this board with helpful input and I appreciate that very much. Sometimes it's just nice to chat and get others perspective on the struggle of alcoholism, but in the end I know I have to be the one to really take care of myself, right? That feels lonely, yet I know I am not alone. There are so many of us, it's hard to fathom.
Thanks again and keep up your good work.
best regards,
piper
Seems like you are always the one to reply to everyone on this board with helpful input and I appreciate that very much. Sometimes it's just nice to chat and get others perspective on the struggle of alcoholism, but in the end I know I have to be the one to really take care of myself, right? That feels lonely, yet I know I am not alone. There are so many of us, it's hard to fathom.
Thanks again and keep up your good work.
best regards,
piper
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