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Now I'm curious than ever, but of course you're not obliged to satisfy my curiosity. In my culture there's no overlap between embarassing and very painful diseases, but I guess that in other cultures (say, Japanese) it might be different.
I'm also shooting in the dark here, but something like
sounds odd from a person with suicidal thoughts.
Let's see if I can muster enough courage to speak about my problems more explicitly.
I've heard that one before (that I have weird issues for a person with suicidal thoughts. Even that I'm maybe even lying to myself... that I'm not actually suicidal.)
Well, I wouldn't say that, after all everyone has their own peculiarity. Perhaps your brain is compartimentalizing suicide and survival instincts, and you're switching between the two. We still understand so very little about the brain and its diseases nobody can be really sure.
Alright, my problems are Irritable bowel syndrome and borderline personality disorder.
Ah, one of my dearest friend suffers from both IBS and a mild case of OCD. I wonder if there's some connection between IBS, the enteric brain and the encephalic brain that might explain these occurences.
I say this because when a psychiatrist tried to treat her for the latter disorder, the meds aggravated the first condition, so were promptly suspended. No one saw this coming.
Does your country provide universal health care? Or how does it work?
Yes. Why?
Earlier you mentioned you couldn't afford a counselor. I don't know the specifics of your country's system, but lack of money should not be a problem if you have coverage for both of your conditions.
It's not very simple. I'm not sure if I have coverage for those conditions. It could be.
In most countries being suicidal is a condition that's covered. In any case it can't hurt to ask a local therapist whether you would be covered.