bipolar-ptsd

Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more careful about revealing psychiatric symptoms. Unless you know that your doctor understands trauma symptoms, including dissociation, you are wise not to reveal too much. Too many medical professionals, including psychiatrists, believe that hearing_voices_is a sign of schizophrenia, that mood swings mean_bipolar_disorder which has to be_medicated, and that depression requires electro-convulsive therapy if medication does not relieve it sufficiently. The __edical model_ simply does not work for dissociation, and many treatments can do more harm than good... You do not have to tell someone everything just because he is she is a doctor. However, if you have a therapist, even a psychiatrist, who does understand, you need to encourage your parts to be honest with that person. Then you can get appropriate help.

Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I__ be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere.

Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I__ not ashamed of my illness. I__e been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.

There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding

Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won't be the last thing I taste