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17-12-2007, 03:27 AM
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Hi, I was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder over a year ago, and more recently PTSD. I just started therapy last week for the first time ever. I am 24 years old.
I was wondering if anyone shared the same symptoms as me, and if therapy has helped them.
Im very over sensitive to noise/light/touch. If I accidentally hurt myself I throw a fit, i have recurring nightmares about spiders crawling all over me and up the wall. I sometimes wake up at night paralysed unable to move seeing shadows which sometimes start to strangle me, Im always looking over my shoulder, and a few other things.
Thanks. |
17-12-2007, 04:06 AM
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Welcome to the forum. Please check out http://www.ptsdforum.org/forum45.htmlto help your start. There are people here who have been misdiagnosed bipolar when it is actually PTSD and others here who are actually bipolar with PTSD. You will find most here share many of your symptoms.
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17-12-2007, 05:36 AM
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Welcome to the forum Vapor. |
17-12-2007, 09:19 AM
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thankyou for the warm welcome |
17-12-2007, 11:09 AM
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Hi Vapor, and Welcome to the forum!
Hope |
19-12-2007, 01:07 AM
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Best wishes on your journey to learning how to cope and survive. Its a rocky road for sure, I wish you much love and support along the way. |
19-12-2007, 01:54 AM
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Welcome to the forum Vapor.
bec |
19-12-2007, 08:56 AM
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Hi Vapor. Sounds like pretty normal symptoms. Even the spiders---there was a time when I kept getting vivid images of myself vomiting thousands of tiny spiders. That was a decade ago and I still haven't figured out what that was about. It only lasted for a few months, then went away.
I hope yours goes away too. It's disturbing to be haunted by strange imagery, isn't it? |
22-12-2007, 10:53 AM
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