I’m pretty sure I meet the DSM-5 criteria for BPD. I also relate to people here so much. But for some reason my psychiatrist refused to diagnose me saying she “doesn’t feel” like I have BPD. She thinks all my symptoms are because of my OCD and that I don’t have any other mental illnesses. Of course I don’t want to have BPD but I’m just not convinced. Should I see another psychiatrist?
I’ve been recently diagnosed with PCO/PCOM. My complaint was bleeding between periods and brown discharge. I get my period every 28-45 days. I don’t know if this is considered irregular as I don’t experience missed periods and most cycles are in the 30s. The longest cycle I’ve ever had was 59 days but this was years ago.
I’m a virgin and not sexually active so I did a transabdominal US. My gynaecologist said that my US showed multiple follicles in my ovaries which means I have PCO.
I think I have excess body hair because I have hair in my stomach, back and face which is bothering me but the gynaecologist said that it’s normal and not too much. She also said that I don’t need to lose weight since I’m not obese and didn’t ask for any labs except for Hb and iron to check for iron deficiency anemia from the intermenstrual bleeding but I don’t think it’s that much blood so I didn’t do them.
I also used to have very painful periods (dysmenorrhea) and vomiting. My last 2 periods were almost completely painless. My gynaecologist said that the pain was a good sign that I was ovulating and these painless periods are due to anovulatory cycles, which means I should be worried when my period is painless.
She said I don’t fill the criteria to have PCOS and diagnosed me with PCO. She told me to do some diet modifications and decrease my carbohydrate intake and she wanted to prescribe me a medication to decrease bleeding which I also didn’t take.
After I did some research, I read that abdominal US can’t diagnose PCO and that it’s not clear enough unlike transvaginal US. So, I’m starting to doubt the diagnosis. I also think that I should have checked my hormone levels but she didn’t ask for these investigations.
For the period cramps part, I’ve read contradictory information about it, some saying that anovulatory cycles can even have worse cramps so I don’t understand anymore what is true.
I’ve had this complaint of intermenstrual bleeding for I think 3 years now and I got checked back then by another gynecologist and she told me that I was fine and this was just ovulation bleeding. That’s why I didn’t get checked again until recently because I had prolonged bleeding.
I still don’t understand why I bleed between periods. Should I see another gynaecologist? And what should I expect them to do in order to get an accurate diagnosis? I still won’t be able to do a transvaginal US though.
It’s been almost 7 months now since our breakup. We were in a perfect relationship that ended because of my ROCD. It affected me deeply and I hated myself for being who I am. I was very attached to him and I begged him to come back for months. It’s been a month since the last time I talked to him when he said he hates me and I almost killed myself.
I feel better now and the urge to beg him so maybe he would come back this time is significantly less than it used to be. I also don’t want to kill myself anymore and I feel like I can finally leave him alone and start living my life and focusing on myself, just like he told me to. I don’t want to hurt him ever again or humiliate myself the way I used to.
But I keep having this thought that this just means that I didn’t really love him because I’m moving on too fast. I know this isn’t true but I can’t help but make myself more miserable to prove that I really care about this relationship. I’m afraid I will reach out to him again if I keep attaching myself to him and then he would hate me even more because he said that this hurts him and he wants me to leave him alone.
What even triggered me more is when my psychiatrist asked me why am I doing better and that I was so attached and couldn’t live and asked me if there’s someone else which is absolutely NOT true because I can’t and don’t want to see anyone else but him but it made me feel bad for trying to get better after I lost him. I think I don’t deserve to be happy.
I still love him and pray for him to love me again and come back to me but that’s pretty much all i can do to avoid making the situation worse. I just want to stop thinking that getting better means I don’t love him enough so that it doesn’t trigger me into doing anything stupid again. Do you have any advice?
So I was on antidepressants for 6 months. I was taking them mainly for OCD but I didn’t notice much improvement maybe because I was supposed to take a higher dose. I started with fluoxetine (prozac) 20 mg, increased the dose to 40 mg together with olanzapine (zyprexa, a low dose antipsychotic which I was prescribed for anxiety) 2.5 mg but since there was still no improvement, I switched to fluvoxamine (luvox/faverin), started with 50 mg for 10 days then increased the dose to 100 mg. At the same time, I was taking fluoxetine 25 mg and olanzapine 3 mg.
Other than sleeping for at least 12 hours daily and feeling calmer than usual, low motivation, having trouble focusing and bad memory (but some of these were present even before I started taking my meds), I haven’t experienced many side effects. I was also very impulsive and my hands were shaky but I can’t tell if these were side effects or just me. I think it’s also important to mention that I used to forget to take my meds sometimes so I wasn’t always taking them daily, but I tried to.
I stopped taking fluvoxamine suddenly (cold turkey) from 100 mg and didn’t taper. I didn’t notice any withdrawal symptoms. I continued taking fluoxetine and olanzapine for a while after, but I kept spacing the doses gradually to be every few days up to 6 days in between the last 2 doses before I completely stopped. I didn’t take a smaller dose, I only spaced them. I stopped fluvoxamine 41 days ago and the other meds 17 days ago.
I think I haven’t experienced any withdrawal symptoms. My mood is fine and my anxiety hasn’t worsened and I sleep around 8 hours daily now. I think I might have experienced brain zaps but they didn’t occur in a while.
But I’m SO emotionally numb. I don’t feel anything. I don’t laugh, I don’t cry, I don’t feel happy or sad, NOTHING!! I’m a very sensitive person and the smallest things used to affect me so much and I used to cry a lot and feel everything maximally. I know this wasn’t very healthy but I want my feelings back!! I also think I lost my empathy for people and this makes me feel like a horrible, cold hearted person.
This isn’t me. I don’t know what is happening to me.
It wasn’t even that bad when I was on meds; it just got worse when I stopped. Could these be withdrawal symptoms? Could it be depression? Could it be the side effects of the meds still affecting me before my body completely clears them? Could it be my mind trying to protect me from getting hurt again? And how long is this supposed to last? Will I ever be normal again?
i had long curly hair and i shaved it off to a length between a buzz cut and a pixie cut during a mental breakdown. i regret it so much i hate how i look and i can’t wait for it to grow back.
i shaved it off almost 4 months ago and i’m barely noticing any difference. it also grows upwards and makes me look like a boy.
my hair wasn’t damaged. i don’t use heat or dye it. i was struggling with my mental health but since i’m a little better now i’m seriously regretting my decision.
how can i make my hair grow faster?
please help me!! :(