Any1 else have bipolar with amnesia...?
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I forget stuff all the time. However I think that's more to do with disassociation with my PTSD. But having both is an interesting experience. I keep a diary to remind me what I've done, and sometimes I forget while I'm writing it.
I don't actualy suffer from amnesia but on times by brain struggles. I usally remember. I did once suffer from two about ten or eleven days were I could not rember anything. I ended up hanging myself and was then in intestive care. The days leading up to I can't rember to this day. Bi polar is so not fun!
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Woodman, I think it is a symptom of Bi Polar. when I was being diagnoses I was asked if I suffered from memory loss. I think it's just that not everyone has all the same symptoms. Some have more of one thatn another ect. Be glad you don't have that one. I bet you just have all sorts of the other nasty that we have to endure!
I've been diagnosed as bipolar. I've never heard of bipolar with amnesia. Been taking Cymbalta along with Paxil and Lamictal. A lot of weird symptoms I know of but not amnesia. Oh well, something else to consider.
Amnesia - complete loss of awareness for a period of time - is not a symptom of bipolar.
Not processing information is a bipolar symptom. I want to bring this thing from this room to another room but not remembering 'the plan' along the way is forgetting. I don't remember what you said. I don't understand what you are saying. Etc. All are related to impaired cognition. Not remembering reality due to hallucinations is another form of not processing information correctly.
Amnesia would be a sign of something else. If not due to brain damage or drug reaction, it is a form of Dissociative Disorder. It can be a comorbid condition, but it is not a bipolar condition.
I am bipolar but have never experienced amnesia. I have never herd of that one before. I will check on that, been that way since I was 17, If that's true I should know! Would like to hear more about it.
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