Bipolar Disorder Support Group

I'm not ready to quit smoking - why do you think people can't get a break from you?

Got me confused - yes, where ever we go, they we are! But why wouldn't others be not able to get their own support, or "break".. if I was around me nuts, I'd head for the beach! LOL

Good luck with the smoking thing.....Im not ready to quit either. I wish I had your strength. Hang tight the nic fit only last like 3 mins and then its gone. Dont be so hard on yourself......

I'm going in my mean faze. Ugh. I call it purgatory. My boyfriend calls it code red. Lol.
What I mean is when I am in purgatory, people can leave me alone and do other things but I can't leave myself to take a break. I think alot of people don't think of that and don't understand how it is hard for them to be around someone that has crazy mood swings but its harder for us because we can't get away for a while.

I got you the first time! You're right...when others have had enough of our mood swings they can just leave and go somewhere else but we have to stick around. We never get a break from our m. swings and it gets very tiring... Some days I am so overwhelmed that I can hardly get out of bed and I just want to cry, roll into a ball and sink into my mattress. It would be great if they could find a way for us to take a holiday from ourselves!

Wait jamip!! Does your doc know you're quitting? Please, please tell him. Beepers, when they quit, after a few months, will very easily go into a severe depression. And it doesn't come on slowly as usual, it's a fast drop to suicidal thoughts.
It happened to me when I was buying groceries. All of a sudden it was clear that there was no point in going on and conveniently there was a large bridge only 4 miles away. I got so scared, a tiny part of my brain said "oh oh". I sat in my car and cried my eyes out and prepared to drive to the bridge. The tiny voice said "buy a pack of smokes or you're done for'. So I did. Told doc the next day what happened and he had a fit that I didn't tell him I was quitting.
Next time he said, I'm putting you on anti-depressants BEFORE you quit.
It's really dangerous, honest.

The way I get away from myself is to sleep or make myself do something for my husband like go to his kickball games or just go for a ride and feel the wind and smell the air.

Congrats on quitting. Some unsolicited advice on quitting cigs. take it one day at time. There is no one way to quite smoking. IOW one size doesn't fit all. Only you can know what way is best for you. Dobiedots warned of the possibility of a major depression, possibly suicidal thougths. I think this is quite possible since cigarette smoking, especially the nicotene robs the brain of neurtransmitter, ie brain chemicals that control mood. I think that is what causes the addiction to smoking in the first place. The brain chemicals are lost through smoking and so the smoker smokes to replace the brain chemicals lost. Its a vicious cycle of depleting neurotransmitters and therefore producing the feeling that one needs to smoke to get back those neurotransmitters to not feel depressed.