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Originally Posted by loramin
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They're emotional, and taking their drugs makes them less emotional (much less emotional than giving them some therapy). I'm sorry, but there's no way in hell you're going to convince me that therapy makes a bipolar person, in any phase, less emotional than giving them drugs, so I stand by my statement.
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This is true. But any ethical psychiatrist is going to insist their patient be involved in learning things like coping strategies and actually trying to solve their life problems, and prevent things like self-sabotage. Some of them run pill boutiques and give a pill per symptom. There are some shitty psychiatrists out there...giving away benzos for long periods and stuff like that.
Borderlines can be difficult. The hardest part is getting them to accept that they aren't Bipolar and that they aren't suffering from GAD....that they are just uncontrollably emotional and have terrible abandonment issues, often stemming from some horrible trauma they've experienced and what they had to do to survive it. In this population skills like mindfulness, radical acceptance, and interpersonal effectiveness are more helpful
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] If you can get them to a place of insight into their health.
People don't like hearing that their personality is the problem. So you have to be sneaky about approaching it.