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I'm lost

Started by liknunotha, Oct 09, 2007, 11:40:37 AM

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mistoffolees

>thank you all very much. I have made an appointment to see a
>counselor. I just hope she will take me back. I have been
>looking online and I think I might have PTSD. either that or
>I'm bipolar. My father is bipolar, and I didn't want to think
>I do. but maybe I do. GOD I hope I'm not. why would she want
>to come back to someone who is messed up for life?

Don't get too excited about self-diagnosis.

There are two common fallacies:
- thinking everything you read applies to you
- thinking that nothing you read applies to you

Let the counselor do the diagnosing - otherwise, you'll waste emotional energy on something that may not even be real - and you need to reserve as much energy as you can.