It's all about my feelings, my good and bad moods. Ups and downs Never diagnosed with personality disorder but it was mentioned by professional before that it's highly possible Diagnosed with depression
Friday, 25 October 2013
just the thoughts
xoxo
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
And here it goes
Then I asked Riki what shell I do? She said to set the wall with the sign, so for the 2 remaining work hours I set up the wall with nicely cut out letters .
The day gone passed quickly. And then I started to concentrate on my mood and behavior through the day.
When I woke up I couldn't get up of the bed and then when I get out of the bed I hit energy spark. I was moving quickly, had a shower, help my son to dress up to school, made him breakfast, dry and modeled my hair, packed his lunch , done my make up , feed the ferret and a cat, dress myself and still had a bit of time left before the school run. When going to school I felt like my nerves in my legs are kind a tense but it was not because of stress I felt the urgency to run , so I walked quickly almost keeping up with David riding his scooter.
Looking back the day before I had similar energy spark, on saturday and sunday I had the urgency to spend moneyso we went shopping. Though I have my fridge set with food for another 3 -4 weeks! I was smoking more through those days and ate less than usual . Then yesterday I kind a binged on food again. And for breakfast today I had a strawberry bon bons ! Daaa , and I actually was considering a healthy food like a porridge with seeds and honey.
So, I am going up and down with my moods, and problem I have is that I do not recognise it myself. Sometimes something normal and regular in my point of view is too high and considered to be a hypomanic episode. Well at the moment I am on CITALOPRAM, and it doesn't really have much of side effects on me which I think is pretty good. Though I read that ppl who suffer of bipolar and take SSRI med become more manic. It doesn't happening to me. Or I might not realise that.
I should write it all down, keep a mood diary!
xoxo
Friday, 18 October 2013
And what to do?
Well that was a bit of surprise, and yes now I see the light and why they say that. Though she didn't put her diagnosis she said it is worth to try Lithium or Depakote. She promised to send a letter to my GP and advise him further what to do. So I received my letter without the page where she had said what steps to take and what dosage to prescribe. Well , my GP did not receive this letter and so he couldn't give me any advice on that. Surprisingly when I returned to see him after 2 weeks he had the letter and said that he is not able to carry on or even start me on depakote. Then with lithium I have to be stable on medication so they could carry it over from psychiatrist.
Loads of misinterpretation, not knowing or other shit is going on with thw bloody NHS, Doctors are not capable of doing anything, one is saying one thing and the other is saying other thing, that makes me hate them and what is worse it makes me more and more frustrated. Like now I had 4 weeks off because I have been depressed and how can I get better if I have idiots dealing with my health. GRRRYYY
So any way nothing will happened until 18 November as this is the day I have my appointment with my psychiatrist. We will see what she will say.
Going back to bipolar I realised that I haven't got much of manic episodes. Now when I stayed at home for the first 2.5 week I felt very week and tired and sleepy and then I had like 3 - 4 days doing stuff, smiling ,giggling, waking up at night and play computer games , cleaning and then I thought I'm cured my depression is gone . And then relapsed again but not as severe as before , now I feel kind of steady but I know that this depression hasn't gone yet.
So what should I do?
I am about to change my surgery as the one I am with now is shitty one with terrible patient service. Well I hope that it will be a good choice, at least I might be able to book an appointment with this same GP!
Well that's it for now XOXO
Saturday, 7 September 2013
CONFUSED ME ....( THE POST WHICH i HAVEN'T POSTED)
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I even thought to go off sick as I just get so frustrated and hurt because of that , I don't know if they are people who understand what I am going through right now. I don't know if it is just me or not. Well I am feeling low lately I think some kind of depressive mood s taking over.
I don't see my therapist for a while now , I miss her a bit as she was the one I could open up to without making myself feel guilty. I had someone to talk to , which now I haven't got anyone.
I still struggle at night with those weird attacks where I can not breath. The doctor doesn't know what is actually wrong with me, they decided to refer me to the respiratory specialist, but still they are 90% sure that those attacks are not a respiratory problems, but kind a rough panic attacks.
Fed up.
I just feel like nothing is going right , I haven't got money . We are in such debit at the moment that I don't even want to think about it. I am strongly disappointed with my job, I am fatter than I was last time. I am bigger 2 sizes. AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
My head hurts and I feel so tired , it is all because of the junk food I am fed on. The job which doesn't give me any satisfaction, and struggle with money. Adding to that the fat tum, double chin, bloody night attacks, and the overwhelming sadness. I just want to hide in the small hiding hole, where no one and nothing could find me.
xoxo
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Randoms, who am I ?
Well I still discover who I am , what happened in my life to cause such a chaos. If this was my parents fault and I got to he point that I felt so abandoned then I looked for a bit of attention in men and my weapon was sex for that matter. Or I am an attention seeker , I definitely am , but why? I want to be the best in everything I do , I want to show that I am capable of everything . At work I try to be as strong as I possibly can , but it doesn't work like that sometimes.
Well now my therapist is telling that she thinks I am more of bipolar to her, fair enough , you know that life is like never ending story , we still discover chapters everyday writing he pages of the life we live . She knows what to look up for when I am coming to see her where for me , when I saw psychiatrist it was like hours may by days. Well she said she will try to feedback her observations to the psychiatrist I see. She even thinks I might need more psychiatrist then therapist , well I don't know . I feels comfortable with her, but now I suspect that she doesn't want to see me as much as I want to see her. Is it true ? Or is it another part of me being irrational. I want to discover who I am and I will take everything they are able to offer to find out who I am and why I am like I am.
Thought life.
Xoxo
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Liars
The only person not a professional and not my husband who I did trust the most betrayed me, again!
There was the time I needed to sort things out at work , and he came across as a trustworthy person , who is able to understand what I am going through. I give him all the details about my health for him to be able to understand, and now I feel like a foul. Just because today he said something completely different the we discussed before. It was about the bonus we receive yearly at work , I didn't get it. Though 3 weeks back he said I will get it , and that I should spend those money to go away and relax , and now he tries to tell me that it wasn't the case. Liar , that is the only word stuck in my head from the moment I spoke to him today.
Now I am in the position where I hate that I trusted him , it is not about the bonus anymore , it is about the trust I put in him. I don't give a daim for the bonus, I don't fucking care, I am pissed off because he lied , I don't want his fucking pity. I will survive and get stronger from day to day.
Just because he said he have to think what to do about this bonus, I thought what the hell? Then I said that he told me that I will get it, what a naive idiot am I , he said he have to have time to reflect on it. What the fuck to reflect on , he could say , sorry I have done mistake , I told you you will get it but I haven't put this through the system, I will think if we can do something about it. I will understand and I wouldn't call him a liar, but in the way he spoke to me and the way he dealt with things makes me so angry, not only at him but myself,
I feel so disappointed and so tired of liars. I feel like I want to harm myself as my soul hurts again!
I feel exhausted, and I hate, and I am so disappointed.
Don't trust anyone, as there is no one in the world that want to genuinely help you
I still don't learn from my mistakes.
xoxo
Thursday, 9 May 2013
tough time
A couple of days earlier I had a conversation with my store manager and he asked me what he can do to help me go through the tough time. I said I don't really know, I was confused and not in the state to really decide. Then on Wednesday it was him who actually made the decision for me, which I would understand , as we had this talk , beside he knows everything about me and the difficulties I am currently experiencing.
My department manager is a piece of shit, he is the worthless person ever who doesn't know how to work with people is very unprofessional and dumb. Yes those are the words I can describe this person with.
He hurt me so much that the next day I was really suicidal, I called Mind and the hospital with which I am outpatient and talked to a social worker on duty who actually helped me to go through the tough period of time. I hate that it makes me feel weak and I hate to feel weak. One idiot can screw your life completely.
It makes some sense.
He have very visible behaviours like my mother, this brings the mother memory back to me , her being really hurtful and nasty that is how I perceive him.
I feel better now, I hope I won't get in to such a state any time soon.
xoxo
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
panic attacs
My panic attacks get worse recently and I am in that position when I am fed up with everything around. I just want to sleep. I found myself in the mood where I think of cutting my veins out just for the sake of being relieved. I feel like I choke with the air I breath I am unable to control my panic and this makes me feel worse every time I have the attack .
Currently I am so fed up that I don't want to bother with anything. I struggle to keep up with my daily routine and additionally I realised that my husband isn't sleeping well due to my attacks, he is awake every time I am having one. And is still awake when I finally go to bed , which sometimes is an hour or two from the time I woken up. He doesn't want to worry me I think that's why he stays in bed and I think he still thinks that I don't know that he is awake. But when I do go to bed he asks me if my attack had passed , so obviously he is not asleep. Then when I ask him why he is awake, he wont reply to me , sometimes. Well now it doesn't affect only me but people closest to me , like my husband . I hate that feeling. I feel again like it might be better without me , so no one will worry. I will be in peace and their life's could be better. I worry what will happened if my son face the situation , when I will have the attack and then if I will loose consciousness , what he will do , how it will affect him, how this situation will affect me ? So many unanswered questions in my head.
This is so difficult and sad, as how my 6 yer old can cope with the picture of his mum loosing control, collapsing and not responding ? What affect it will have on his future, will he be afraid all the time, will he cope with this better than I think? I am so scared, like I had never been before. Maybe I should ask my husband to live his job and then he can be with me all the time and then I might feel less anxious , but on the other hand we need the money he is earning to survive. So many questions, like I physically have difficulty to deal with it and think about it puts e in so much emotional pain. I feel again my heart pounding, and I feel like again I am detached from reality around me . I didn't know that detachment is part of anxiety and it is actually a panic attack. I find it out recently as last week my therapist told me that I had panic attacks before I started the therapy. I wasn't sure what she meant so I have done my research and find out that feeling detached , week , weird in sense of being are all panic attacks. So yes I did have them before I started the therapy.
I need a BRAKE , I feel so tired, I feel emotionally exhausted and physically weak.
xoxo
Sunday, 21 April 2013
that's me
I feel like I need to control it but I cant , I wish I will be more strict with myself , but I am not. I dont pity myself, even if that sounds like it. I am just angry that I loose control. The control I don't have any way.
On the other hand I dont selfharm by cutting, which means I find other ways of harming , which here includes bingeing and purging. So it is the old story , making myself suffer , for some unknown reason. Sometimes I think of cutting, but currently I just think , I don't act which is good , this feels a bit like in control. Like cheatting myself but still it is a kind of a solution for me, right?
I feel calmer and my mind is more clear than before, although I got dizzy very often, like my world is spinning and the picture is weirdly moving, the kind of a wayve motion. Then stops and goes back to normal. Though I know for a fact that it is strange and not quiet normal , but then I just got off the fluoxetine and they give me olazepine, but due to side effects I had stop taking it. I just take propranolol for my anxiety. I suppose to stop it as well, and stay on olazepine but I just can not bare the side effects. I know I should consult my doctor , but she said that I have to carry on with olazepine because it was prescribed by psychiatrist. Well that means that I discontinue it myself, besides the psych said that if those tablets make me gain weight and if I will feel like it's affecting my mood and if it will bother me too much then to stop taking it. Which I did.
Now I have to work on loosing weight again, I want to sign up for a gym a bit later and I bought a bicycle, so I can ride it to work. O and I take orlistat for a weight loss , as I just get so frustrate of the fact I am so fat.
So main focus now is on loosing weight
xoxo
Sunday, 14 April 2013
pain
I moan because I gained weight and I feel so low , and I feel sad, and I comforting myself eating, and it is the bloody circle which has no end , right? As this will repeat again and again , like a bloddy pattern.
I think about my grandparents, they died , and I feel so sad , they died years ago. But now I remember visiting them , and it is nice sunny weather. The grass is green , the trees have lovely green leves, it's sunny and so peaceful. I haven't cried for a long time , and I have tears in my eyes now. I feel heavy in my cheast and so sad, I miss that time , I want to go back , I feel like I want to be this little girl back again. I feel like then I was happy , worry free. My heart hurts and tears drop from my chicks. It feels weird, I don't understand why this is happening. I am getting concious now,split minustes, and I feel better. Although still sad but better.
I woke up to another panic attack , which is so dreadful. I feellike now I am taking control over it , not fully but I am trying to distract myself , so then the attack last way shorter then they did before.
I think about my nan again, and it just makes me more sad and brings those childhood memories. And I feel like I don't want to think ABOUT IT . So good night, till the next time.
xoxo
Friday, 12 April 2013
please help with weight loss!
I don't know what to say , I had been thinking to writ some post for ages but never actually did it as my head was completly empty. I think due to my medication changes I had been more of a stranger to myself than I had ever been before.
I am currently stopping fluoxetine, which on one hand is good as I never thought that this medication helped me in any way. Now though, I feel like I need it , such a coincidence, I suppose to stop the propranolol as well , and started olazepine 2.5mg for my panic attacks which doesn't help.
I was taking olazepine for the past 2 weeks , and I feel like dying , why ? Because I gained so much weight! I mean 7kg !!! I want to tear my hair off , and want to scream , and eat more and I am so angry that I get all the bloody side effects, but the med doesn't work as it should. My panic attacs are more recent then before , for them now there is backing off. I started to cary on with propranolol , I hope it would help, as I am genuinly fed up with the way my life goes at the moment.
I am signed off work for a week and I might take additional week just to try and sort myself out, I don't feel well at all , I am tired , frustrated, eating like a food monster. I want to loose weight again!!!
7 kg can you imagine ?!
I WOULD WELCOME TIPS AND ADVISE HOW TO STOP EATING PLEASE I AM VERY DESPERATE AND VERY ANGRY AND SAD. PLEASE HELP ME!!!
I have often panic attacs , they are 3- 4 times a day and olazepine isn't helping, the only thing it did was to make me gain weight :( So I decided to stop it , as my belly is bigger than my boobs at the moment, I have difficulty moving, I am tired , constantly hungry, feeling sick because of so much food in my stomache. Grrrrrr ! I am so angry that I couldn't manage it better.
I think of selling something on ebay , I actually thought about make up , like CK , LOREAL, MAC, BENEFIT and all those known brands. Well I want to see how well I will be able to manage it. Then I will have a bit of satisfaction - maybe.
I purchased a bike, nice , new, purply - pink, and I havent ride it yet. Well I actually bought it for work and small grocery shopping. Believe me it is such a nice bike , which looks and fill very big.
I feel tired it is 4.02, I might have a cigarette and go back to bed
xoxo
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
thoughts and actions
So I decided to take tis in my own hands , meaning - I will stop olazepine , just because from the time of taking it I gained 7kg, which is around 2.5 week. Not good !!!
This makes me even more anxious and unhappy, well the weight gained and the panic attacks I have.
From today I am cutting olazepine and I will see how my weight will go .
I still have my panic attacs which are so kommon now.They make me so exhausted.
I am cutting on fluoxetine as well, and I should stop propranolol. But considering all prons and cons I will stop olazepine and cary on with propranolol and we will see if there is an improvement. I am just so tired and fed up with them attacks.
XOXO
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
BPD it is
Monday, 18 March 2013
felling it
I am sad and I don't know what is the reason for it. I am feeling tired just so tired.
xoxo
Sunday, 17 March 2013
ED, Self Harm, panic attack, anxiety, depression ,mania, hypomania, rage, and many more
I had done a research again , as I do from time to time. I consider myself fit and capable person , with moments of brake down without particular reason or by outside triggers, where my therapist say that I have high sensitivity of my senses vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch . She might be right and there might nothing particularly wrong with me mentally , or she might be wrong and there is more to that, She mentioned previously that she think that I am Bipolar, although I have never mentioned to her that I think I am Borderline. Though I mentioned that I am suspecting to have a personality disorder , where she asked me , what I mean - which one. I said that maybe schizoid , because I am perceiving people as they are talking about me behind my back , and that I feel like they want to make a harm to me. She finalize it with one word - delusional, yes I am , what is worse than that is that I love people or I hate them , and this she doesn't know. She might suspect that but she had never mentioned it to me . Well if you read my posts you can see from them how I think and that at times I trust and like someone, and then the paranoia takes the turn and I feel like I hate that person, and then they will do something nice to me and I become to love them again. It is like a confused circle which doesn't end . Example can be my mother, at times I feel like I love her but most times I hate her as she made so much damage to me when I was a child; my senior manager before I transferred to the store I work for now , he was my guru and then he become the worse person the devil himself - in my eyes, I still hate him thou , coz he didn't even tried to repair the damage he cause to me.
I learned today that in fact I have bulimia, well the doctors knew about it but they didn't take any action to help me with that. I had a post that one doc, said that I have bulimia , and I thought how he can diagnose that without an assessment. So I researched and that is how MAYO Clinic describes it:
Diagnostic criteria for bulimia
To be diagnosed with bulimia, you must meet these criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association:
You repeatedly binge, eating an abnormally large amount of food, and feel that you can't control your eating.
You get rid of the extra calories from bingeing by vomiting, excessive exercise, fasting, or misuse of laxatives, diuretics, enemas or other medications.
You binge and purge at least twice a week for at least three months.
Your body shape and weight influence your feelings of self-worth too much.
You don't have anorexia, an eating disorder with extremely restrictive eating behaviors.
Even if you don't meet all of these criteria, you could still have an eating disorder. Don't try to diagnose yourself — get professional help if you have any eating disorder symptoms.
So I fit those criteria perfectly. Meaning I have bulimia.
The self harm it's a big issue for me, I remember that I had abused my body in a sexual way from as long as I can remember. Let say the first memory is when I was about 12 - ish. Then I got naked in winter in the small forest and showed my naked body to my four years younger brother, where he suppose to do this same, but he hasn't. I remember that it was cold, loads of snow and we were going to the church , so it had to be Sunday morning, as service was at 10.30 am. I never talked to him about it and I hope I won't be ever talking to him about it. I had inserted different objects to my vagina, I had slept with most disgusting man you can think of, I had inserted objects in my rectum and masturbate rough to cause pain, to hurt myself. I had tided up my breast that they got purple from lack of blood circulations, my nipples had been damaged many times till the blood come out. I bit myself with a wooden stick, my breast get hit with all sorts of things, they had been squished , pulled, bitten, smacked, hit, you name it they had gone through a lot. Why ? I don't know, I feel the urgency to do it sometimes, and I have this voice in my head which is telling me how worthless and pathetic I am, what a whore am I and how I deserve the worse treatment ever. That the bitch like me needs to be punished, and not to have any pleasure only pain is allowed, at times I cry from the pain. When I was younger it was common for me in winter to go to the forest take off my all clothes and lay in the snow in the freezing cold weather, at times I run and jumped in the forest, making myself think that I am a secret agent who is on the mission. I wasn't scared I had my dogs with me, so even if someone wanted to stop me I had my guards with me.
Then there is hitting with a shoe, stick , hand, fist in the head and the body this usually is because of the pain I feel in my chest and my head, it is overwhelming mental pain with high level of anxiety. This as well add cutting, I cut when I feel rage and when something good happens and I feel like I can not cope with my emotions and the feeling is excessive. I feel hurt and I cut, I feel impatient and nervous I cut, I am sad and worried I cut , I succeed or achieve something I cut, and it really doesn't matter what happened if my emotions change from one extreme to the other then I have to cause myself a pain. They say it is the way of dealing with the feelings.
Panic attacks, they just came from nowhere and they are disturbing and scary at times. I dislike them the most of all physical issues I have with myself, the cutting , biting, purging it's nothing in comparison to those attacks. They make me weak and frightened, I think it is just because I haven't got the ability to control them , where the other things I have a control and I can choose in some way what I want to do. It is bizarre but the most truthful I have ever thought of, meaning, that now I got to the point of realising why some things happens. Well short story I hate those attacks as I feel vulnerable.
Anxiety may be caused by external factors - triggers , or just come up without a reason from no where and this is the very best friend of panic disorder which is said to be called Generalised Anxiety Disorder which is :
( GAD) is characterised by excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events with no obvious reasons for worry. People with symptoms tend to always expect disaster and can't stop worrying about health, money, family, work, or school. In people with GAD, the worry often is unrealistic or out of proportion for the situation. Daily life becomes a constant state of worry, fear, and dread. Eventually, the anxiety so dominates the person's thinking that it interferes with daily functioning, including work, school, social activities, and relationships.
What are the symptoms of GAD?
GAD affects the way a person thinks, but the anxiety can lead to physical symptoms, as well. Symptoms of GAD can include:
Excessive, ongoing worry and tension
An unrealistic view of problems
Restlessness or a feeling of being "edgy"
Irritability
Muscle tension
Headaches
Sweating
Difficulty concentrating
Nausea
The need to go to the toilet frequently
Tiredness
Trouble falling or staying asleep
Trembling
Being easily startled
In addition, people with GAD often have other anxiety disorders (such as panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and phobias), suffer from depression, and/or abuse drugs or alcohol.
I don't know anymore how to cope with all that , it feels like I carry too much on my shoulders. I need a break at times, I hate the pain inside me and I hate the anxiety which is so overwhelming that I want to run away from everything and everyone. I want to cry and I am unable to and then I binge on food and purge as I ate to much , and I cut and hit because I suffer , but doing that it cause more pain more physical pain and so I suffer again. I wake up in the morning and feel anxious and I suffer. I shout and scream and harm closest people to me, so when I realise that I suffer, I never apologise even though I know I done a wrong thing.
The depression is the thing that meets me here and there every so often, makes me tired and very lazy. Makes me sad without a particular reason and anxiety rich the rooftop. I dislike depression so much just because I am unable to think, concentrate, I feel worthless and unable to do anything. Forget the bath and putting clothes on , I will just exist, which means I am unable to move of the bed and I am even to tired to go to the loo. Well I hate that feeling although I love to be in a manic state.
Mania and hypomania those two states I live on for the last few days. Often now and then I got the period of extra motivation and ambitious plans which are
Symptoms
The following features are associated with mania and also occur in hypomania to a less severe extent:
increased energy and activity
feeling full of ideas with racing thoughts
increased confidence and self-esteem
decreased need for sleep
talkativeness
being easily distracted, and darting from one activity to another
elevated mood, but sometimes increased irritability that can quickly turn to anger
increased sociability and over-familiarity
increased sexual desire and decreased inhibitions
increased involvement in pleasurable activities with little thought for consequences, such as going on a spending spree or making reckless financial decisions
lack of insight, or denial that behaviour has changed
increased awareness of senses such as smell and touch.
These symptoms are things people may experience from time to time, but for most people will not be considered severe enough to receive a diagnosis or require treatment.
Well, life is cruel isn't it? I love the ability to cook and bake stuff. Have a mind fulfilled with new ideas and be curious and vigilant to my surroundings, from different perspective view the world. Honestly I know that a few days ago I could sleep day and night, I was fed up and so bored, and now for two or three days I am energetic and active, with ability to lay in bed all day and not falling asleep, to stay awake till late and then sleep 4 - 5 hours at night. If feels good and it is fulfilling.Though there is a bad bit, very bad bit - rage.
Rage is the best friend and the worse enemy. I just feel like I am tied up by my anger. That anger is MY dark side which wants to get out of me, but is unable to because I still got some power over it at least at times. I am still strong enough to fight it, and somehow control it a little bit sometimes. But most of the times it is bad, so bad that I even feel bad when I realise what had happened.
So what is wrong with me then? Or maybe everything is about right. Well I shall find out.
xoxo
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Anger and irratybility
Today and yesterday I was so angry, I kept harassing physically my husband , just punching and hitting him without a reason. I had an angry outbursts of rage towards him, my son and myself, which were hard to handle. I shouted again at my son, he just doesn't want to listen, if he would do what I had asked him to do I wouldn't shout at him. But he is stubborn and he tries me , and then I blow out and shout at him, and he gets scared. But why he doesn't learn from that experience and still tries me . I had cut myself just because I felt so unsettled , what I felt was like I had so much of an energy inside me for the last few days. It felt like it was so overwhelming and I wasn't able to control my emotions and feelings, and I just snapped , with a knife in my hand . I cut once, twice three times and it felt good , I rid of the emotions , I cut them out and then a few more times, just not to feel. Feelings are so hard to handle, they cause so much inside pain, they makes me unsettled , they makes me angry. Temporarily my feelings got sorted but after a while they returned and this is such a bad circle.
I have panic attacks again , they are coming up at the day time now, they are very mild as it is just difficulty breathing, nothing like high blood pressure or oxygen deficiency. I am coping quiet well with that.
I had finished my study and I got my certificate and now I just have to write the letters to the best companies in the area and hope that someone will offer a job or a few hours a week as a voluntary job placement.
I have psychiatric assessment coming up on Friday and guess what , I am frightened. I don't know what to expect , how long it will last, and what the psychiatrist will ask me about. Daaa , so scary.And I am going to work after that , which makes me anxious now, as I don't know how I would feel , I know I might be very fragile after the assessment and that's scares me. Well I have to hope for the best.
xoxo
Monday, 11 March 2013
addition to the previous post "bit of BPD"
Considering all pron and cons , the emptiness feels awful This is the kind of feeling you haven't got , but as well you know that it is there, close to you watching every step and making sure you are not alone . The kind of feeling when you can not think because you feel like there is nothing inside your head and then you feel like your soul had disappeared and is no where to be found.
Now I realized what is that emptiness and not boredom.
Feeling empty is the feeling which squizzes your throat and makes you feel attacked, the feeling so overwhelming that you are not able to do anything. I know now how bad it is to feel the emptiness.
Taking into consideration other bad feelings , emptiness is the worse one because I am unable to deal with that feeling myself. It has to pass all by itself, that is so strange. This feeling makes you feel like you don't exist, like you are not living nor existing. This feels like you are all by yourself and that you are completely numb, the feelings are turned off , you don't feel pain either.
It is bad, the numbness, emptiness, lacking thoughts, non existing , thats how emptiness feels.
xoxo
Sunday, 10 March 2013
bit of BPD
As I have no idea what is really wrong with me I thought I will give you a detailed example for BPD and next time Bipolar disorder . There will be some quotes from this website: http://www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.com/understading-bpd/a-bpd-brief/ ,
as well as my own experience examples and real events which can be perceived as BPD.
“For a patient to be diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, he or she must experience 5 out of the 9 criteria as set forth in the DSM-IV TR.
Establishing the diagnosis is complicated by the fact that the presence of many of these criteria fluctuates. Here is a more detailed explanation of these symptoms:
Abandonment Fears. These fears should be distinguished from the more common and less severe phenomena of separation anxiety. The perception of impending separation or rejection, or the loss of external structure, can lead to profound changes in the BPD patient’s self-image, affect, cognition, and behaviour. Individuals with BPD are interpersonally hypersensitive and may experience intense abandonment fears and inappropriate anger even when faced with criticisms or time-limited separations. These abandonment fears are related to an intolerance of being alone and a need to have other people with them. Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment may include impulsive actions such as self-injurious or suicidal behaviours. It was originally postulated that fear of abandonment developed as a result of failures in a child’s development during the rapprochement phase (from age one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half). However, empirical evidence has not borne this out.”
My experience of fearing abandonment are very common to people who are close to me , people I trust or just think I trust, people who are not exactly my loved once but the people I am surrounded with.
1. The store manager- The man I have a great faith in as well as trust , I believe he is a man of a word and that he genuinely care, in some way I can say I love him. Then there is this intense jealousy , which takes my mind and soul, I feel cheated and let down , and it is just because he is laughing with another member of staff. Then I want him to be acting this way with me. I feel angry and in so much pain , my chest is heavy and I can’t stop thinking about it, even after he will come over to say something or approach me for any reason I will act like I don’t care, but I really do. I suffer as he then acts very distant with me , and I want him to behave silly with me as well, so jealous.
2. Co worker , name her J – when she talks to me and I see that she engages with me on different levels I love it , I dearly love her smile and the way she talks, but I hate that she talks to other people. The hurtful thing is when she talks to A, he is handsome and loves to talk with her. I know she even considered to have sex with him . I am very jealous when I see them two talking to each other.
3. My therapist , when she says to me “ I am afraid that we have to finish now “ on our sessions. I get frustrated and down when we have to finish , I hate that I hate when we finish , and I am so unhappy about it. I am sure that most people are, just because you are unable to finish your thoughts, then again on the next visit you are unable to continue with the subject from the last session. It irritates me so much and make me very upset, but I am not showing that to her as I don’t want to be judged. Though one day when I was leaving the other person was coming over , I have met him at the door and felt so awkward.
4. When I was in the relationship with my then boyfriend ( now my husband ), I hated when his friends were constantly around. I hated them , why they are coming over like always, every day , that was so unfair, I wanted to have him all to myself, just him and me. Still now when we are going home and when he meets with his friends I get angry , but I am not saying anything, I tell him that I don’t mind him seeing his friends as this is only like a few times a year. But it hurts me a lot , and I feel jealous.
“Unstable, Intense Relationships. Individuals with BPD are frequently unable to see significant others (i.e., potential sources of care or protection) as other than idealized (if gratifying), or devalued (if not gratifying). This is often referred to as “black and white thinking,” and in psychological terms, reflects the construct of “splitting.” When anger initially intended toward a loved one is experienced as dangerous, it gets “split” off to preserve the loved one’s goodness. Relationship instability is thought to be a symptom of early insecure attachment characterized by both fearful distrust and needy dependency.”
1. As before see the note about the store manager, I hate him dearly when he is not behaving as I expect him, and then I love him when he pays attention to me.
2. I love my husband very much, but when he doesn’t do what I asked him to or hesitate with whatever I expect him to do, I immediately get very angry and I can shout out loud how much I hate him.
3. At work I have K., another team leader, when she is nice to me I feel like I like her so much, but when she is nasty to me I sincerely hate her .
“Identity Disturbance. The disorder of self which is specific to borderline patients is characterized by a distorted, unstable or weak self-image. Borderline patients often have values, habits, and attitudes which are dominated by whomever they are with. The interpersonal context in which these identity problems get magnified is thought to begin with not learning to identify one’s feeling states and the motives behind one’s behaviour.”
I don’t think I have any of that , but I might be mistaken. Well I still have the time to find it out.
“Impulsivity. The impulsivity of the borderline individual has been frequently self-damaging, in its effects if not in its intentions. This differs from impulsivity found in other disorders such as manic/hypomanic or antisocial disorders. Common forms of impulsive behaviour for borderline patients are substance or alcohol abuse, bulimia, unprotected sex, promiscuity, and reckless driving.”
1. Binge eating
2. Bulimia
3. Spending sprees
“Suicide or Self-injurious behaviours. Recurrent suicidal attempts, gestures, threats, or self-injurious behaviours are the hallmark of the borderline patient. The criterion is so prototypical of persons with BPD that the diagnosis rightly comes to mind whenever recurrent self-destructive behaviours are encountered. Self-destructive acts often start in early adolescence and are usually precipitated by threats of separation or rejection or by expectations that the BPD patient assume unwanted responsibilities. The presence of this pattern assists the diagnosis of concurrent BPD in patients whose presenting symptoms are depression or anxiety.”
1. Cutting
2. Scratching
3. Pinching
4. Hitting
5. Smacking
6. Gnashing of teeth
“Affective (Emotional) Instability. Early clinical observers noted the intensity, volatility and range of the borderline patient’s emotions. It was originally proposed that borderline emotional instability involved the same problems of affective irregularity found in persons with mood disorders, particularly depression and bipolar disorder. It is now known that although individuals with BPD display marked affective instability (i.e., intense episodic depression, unrest, anger, panic, or despair), these mood changes usually last only a few hours, and that the underlying dysphoric mood is rarely relieved by periods of well-being or satisfaction. These episodes may reflect the individual’s extreme reactivity to stress, particularly interpersonal ones and a neurobiologically-based inability to regulate emotions.”
1. I get upset very easily, if someone will ignore me or if I will have a bad dream this will affect me. When I get to work my mood changes directly, it depends with who I am so I will be in a good or bad mood, I will feel settled or anxious, I will be sad or happy. My emotions are changing with or without a trigger as I watch TV , hear the music it brings all the different feelings.
“Emptiness. Chronic emptiness, described as a visceral feeling, usually felt in the abdomen or chest, plagues the borderline patient. It is not boredom, nor is it a feeling of existential anguish. This feeling state is associated with loneliness and neediness. Sometimes their experience is considered an emotional state and sometimes it is considered a state of deprivation”
I am uncertain if I feel this kind of emptiness , although there are times I feel the emptiness.
Anger. The anger of the borderline patient may be due to temperamental excess (a genetic vulnerability) or a longstanding response to excessive frustration (an environmental cause). Whether the cause is genetic or environmental, many individuals with BPD report feeling angry much of the time, even when the anger is not expressed overtly. Anger is often elicited when an intimate or caregiver is seen as neglectful, withholding, uncaring, or abandoning. Expressions of anger are often followed by shame and contribute to a sense of being evil.
I feel angry very often and sometimes the smallest thing can make me furious. The last big angry outburst was when K., at work, lied about me , she called a deputy while I was on my way to the department as she tannoy me , and I overheard her saying that : Fay left the department and went to the warehouse , who knows for how long. The truth was that I left another colleague to take care of the customer service desk and checkouts. Well I angrily confronted her and told her not to lie because I have left a person in charge when I went away.
“Psychotic-like Perpetual Distortions (Lapses in Reality Testing). Borderline patients can experience dissociation symptoms: feeling unreal or that the world is unreal. These symptoms are associated with other disorders, such as schizophrenia and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but in those with BPD the symptoms generally are of short duration, at most, a few days, and often occur during situations of extreme stress. Borderline patients also can be unrealistically self-conscious, believing that others are critically looking at or talking about them. These lapses of reality in the BPD patient may also be distinguished from other pathologies in that generally the ability to correct their distortions of reality with feedback remains intact.”
1. I have feelings of detachment from reality , I feel like I am but I am not, at this same time.
2. I have panic attacks which come from nowhere and last different durations , but no longer than an hour
3. I feel like people are gossiping about me , not good things, and like they just are being cruel that way.
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Monday, 4 March 2013
Psychiatric assessment
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I just feel so weird about that.
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Tuesday, 26 February 2013
and here I cried
I had asked , politely ! one of my colleagues to do some work , using words - can you please . What had happened the monkey got unhappy for some reason and made a complaint that I had been rude to him , and that he is such a poor monkey and he needs to be petty. I went to make it all straight and got very upset about it. I won't let some stupid little man spread the lies so I fought for my truth. Where there in the room in my presence he still insisted that I was rude to him. I said I want a disciplinary action to be taken against him , handle the whole situation quiet well and went back to work without disturbing thoughts and just kind a chilled about it. I said that I will write a complaint letter with a grievance to the store manager for today and I will bring it over, unfortunately I wasn't able to put my head together and write this letter. So I went to work today, everything was fin he was off today so I didn't had to see him. Though at the end of the shift I went to talk to the store manager and then he mention that he needs to talk to me. He said that Mo came to see him today and said that I had been very rude to him, and then I broke in tears. I felt cheated, abused, angry , I cried and felt ashamed, as it was on front of my manager. I said my part and I said that I just can not deal with such a stupid accusations and this makes me so upset. He at the end said he will speak to him and find out what in his opinion is being rude.
But I don't want that, I feel like this won't be enough I will raise the grievance as he was accusing me of things I haven't done. I felt very fragile and vulnerable , but I have no idea why exactly. I felt distressed and offended, as I take such a pride in my work and for me respect is a very important part of being a professional in the job I am doing. Then I went to see A. my therapist, I cried on my way there and then I cried on the session.
Crying didn't made me feel better, I felt in so much mental pain that when I went to changing room I wanted to cut myself, I thought even about killing myself when I was on my way to the therapy session. I tried to think of something completely different just to take my attention from the pain. I somehow coped without making any physical harm to my body although wanting is so badly . I felt broken and kind a destructed, I started to feel angry at the end of the session as I had imagined myself hitting his face with my fist, and then knocking him on the ground and kicking him. This brought release and made me feel way better.
How strange, this image brought relief of the pain , maybe not a completed relief but big somehow.
I felt so elated after realising it , like I got the energy from nowhere.
I will think now on the way I will handle it , and maybe this is the time to tell my manager about my health issues.
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Sunday, 24 February 2013
fuck all
I am knocked and I am awake at 5.30 am on sunday. Seriously, there must be something really wrong with me , I went to bed at 1.30am after 12 hour shift and I woke up around 4.30 am. So that's not a good sign.
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Friday, 22 February 2013
total turnaround
I feel like not going to work today, just because I don't feel like going. On the other hand I feel energised and ready to roll, this panic attack annoys me. I hate when it happens, I feel exhausted, my stomach and my head hurts, I can not breath I feel hot and I want it to stop.
My god I feel so angry because of the attack and I don't feel like going to work. I am not tirednbut I would rather spend a day in bed .
I had a dream while having my nap, I dreamed about my husband brother who really doesn't talk to us nither the family in general. well it's a long story but there is a lot to do with his wife, she had a power over him, now he saying that he doesn't have the money or the timento visit, well thats what he want letnit be.
I feel tired in some way, and I don't want to do anything. My pannic attackmjust passed, it lasted 20 min. I should really see a doctor about it as it makes me so angry. Well but i dont trust those stupid doctors.
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Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Different
When I woke up today I frlt energised, in mood to move mountains. I had controlled my eating through the whole morning, and I even baked some croissants and a puff pasty dough , and made a nice custard cream to put in the pastry. I have made ampail of nice sweetmpancakes and I felt so happy. I realised that it is very hard for me to concentrate as I started to read about BPD , and then I realised I again think about compleatly different things while reading , so evrything I read justnwent out of my mind, well that's common.
I feel happy well kind of now, as I started to realise that it is another stage of ME. I would want to feel that way all the time, without a brake .
Xoxo
trust
We talked about trust today, I was really in the mood for insight conversation about how I feel recently. I have said that I don't trust the doctors and I am having return of panic attacks , as I had stopped mirtazepine, as it give me all the possible side effects including such a bad wind that you can not imagine :( so embarrassed.
So let's go back to the trust issues, so I said I am unable to go back to the doctors as they disappoint me so much, and I have lost the last hope when I had the bad interaction of the mirtazepine and I called the GP to call me back , she never did. I lost it then completely. Wow , right why do we pay for their services where their service is crap.
Any ways so go back to trust. I'm loosing it , I feel frightened and so disappointed A. asked me if she have done anything to me so to feel like I can not trust her, no she hasn't , but all the doctors I had seen for the past year made me feel foolish. I feel like I wasted my time and effort by visiting them , and they weren't really able to help me. Now I had finally been referred for the assessment, although it is all thanks to A. as she called up my GP and told her about the concerns she had.
How weird is that I want to cut my arm just to see the blood coming out of it, I imagine a deep cut wound, and it's frighten me. For some reason I have this persistent thought in my mind for a few days now. It makes me feel anxious, but I know My LO is out of school for a week so he keeps me sane , as I don't wan't him to get scared, so I am pretty sure I won't harm myself while I am with him.
Trust had been always an issue with me , I say I trust but deep down in my mind I am so afraid that people will use my deepest secrets to hurt me. Like I said to A. today, you know so much about me , but I know nothing about you. Then she asked me why am I frightened , if there is anything in particular that had happened and it does have an impact on me. The only thought I had today was the GP , the thought of their failure to acknowledge me as a human being who really needs help. I hate them.
I told her that I fear and worry about things I can not even think of. I just have this strong weird feelings in my body, and at times it is really overwhelming.
A. mentioned as well that she realised that I don't finish what I was talking about, like she asks me if there is something in particular which affects my feeling, and I answered completely out of blue starting a totally new subject about dreams. She asked me if I know why I do that? I don't know I never thought of that. So I learned that I am like running away from the answers, and she pointed out that last time I told her like I feel that the session feels so unfinished for the first time.
She as well made me realise that I fear abandonment, and somehow, I feel like she had pointed out that I am afraid that she will abandon me , and that is where my trust issues lay.
We spoke about me being like 7 and have an afternoon nap wit my neighbors in their parents big soft bed, where sun was shining outside and it was very peaceful. There was me, my brother and the three neighbor children. I felt so good, the memory had put a smile on my face, and made me feel so good so warm inside. Then she asked me if I can describe my hose and I said it looks grey, plain, sad which was a total opposition to my neighbor house. I remember looking through the window, and it was so sunny and so nice I just loved it.
I told her about the panic attacks which are coming back and that they worry me so much , I am just afraid that they will start happening in the less expected moments and I am not sure how I would cope with that. It just freaking worries me.
And then the bloody overeating, massive amount of weight on my shoulders. I feel completely out of control, I am even unable to think the way I want to think, my mind feels blank, and plain. On the other hand I have so many different thoughts in my mind and can't concentrate on any of them.
I am tired.
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Sunday, 17 February 2013
struggle
I want to beat myself for being such a worthless, piece of shit who can not even control their own weight, like I had lost 2,5 stone and now I gained back a stone!! WTF !!
How to stop it, I make myself sick , but it doesn't help much does it , as I gained a stone!!
I am freaking tired, fed up , angry, agitated, frustrated, I hate myself for the way it is.
I need motivation, please help!!
I fell like cutting and bruising my body , but would it help?
I need to loose another at least 5 stones, how to stop eating?