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Miss Grace · 28-03-2010, 10:05 PM

From what I read about Cyclothymia (I learned something new today, so thank you!) it seemed like it was a milder form of bipoloar disorder. You may have other diagnoses that go along with Cyclothymia. For example, I have bipolar II (milder cycling than bipolar I with less extremes in mania and depression) but I also have Borderline Personality Disorder...which is where a lot of my other issues fit in: my anger, my insecurities, fears of abandoment, self-harm, promiscuity, ED, addictions...Now, by no means am I saying this is you, but you could talk to your doc. Tell him/her about your anger, mood swings, outbursts, etc., and there might be something in addition to the cyclothymia that helps pin it down. And the more you can pin down, the better the treatment you can receive. Hope this is helpful... ~hugs~

28-03-2010, 10:05 PM	#3
Miss Grace A Work in Progress RYL Sponsor Join Date: Mar 2010 I am currently:	From what I read about Cyclothymia (I learned something new today, so thank you!) it seemed like it was a milder form of bipoloar disorder. You may have other diagnoses that go along with Cyclothymia. For example, I have bipolar II (milder cycling than bipolar I with less extremes in mania and depression) but I also have Borderline Personality Disorder...which is where a lot of my other issues fit in: my anger, my insecurities, fears of abandoment, self-harm, promiscuity, ED, addictions...Now, by no means am I saying this is you, but you could talk to your doc. Tell him/her about your anger, mood swings, outbursts, etc., and there might be something in addition to the cyclothymia that helps pin it down. And the more you can pin down, the better the treatment you can receive. Hope this is helpful... ~hugs~
	Mental illness is no different than any other disease. Just as the diabetic did not ask for diabetes, or the leukemic did not ask for cancer; we did not ask for this disease. But we must fight it just as we would fight any other medical diagnosis and accept that it is not our fault that we fell ill. We, too, can survive.