Bipolar Disorder Support Group

Oh me!! me!!!! :)

Sorry i'm too smashed to be serious, i hope your ok

you can blow me for attention

I hope that you're okay as well. You received some good advice in the crisis centre, and I don't think it's that you're being ignored I think the fewer number of responses that you're probably used to are because there are fewer people online right now. It has nothing to do with your popularity or the way that people care about you. Your friends do care, even if they're unable or unwilling to pick up the phone right now. It's so early I know that no one I called at this moment, even if I were in crisis, would answer the phone.

Members of the BP group here at DS care about you too and we want you to be okay, to be less focussed on dying or hurting yourself because you are valuable and precious as a person. That we care and do have compassion for your struggle (most of us have been where you are right now) has nothing to do with popularity or anything like that. It's not a contest, this is a battle for our lives and our sanity, and each day there are members here trying to help all of us win, one day at a time.

If you are still feeling like you're going to od, that you're further along the path to destruction that just suicidal ideation, then you need to get yourself to the hospital. RIGHT NOW!!!

I care, we care, and want you to be safe. If the coping mechanisms you've learned aren't helping and you're fixating on the idea of dying then you need immediate help.

Going to the hospital might be scary or unsettling, but that's what you need to do if you're in danger of doing something harmful and well (to be honest) stupid. And I'm not saying that YOU are stupid, but the idea of dying because you're not registering the validation you think you need from other people is not smart.

I have a problem with needing outside validation too. I'm working on that. But what's ultimately important isn't what other people think about me, what matters is what I think about myself, and that I learn how to value and affirm who I am before I go looking to my friends and family for approval.

There is compassion here, and caring, and hope. Do what you have to do in order to not get lost in the harmful thoughts and the idea that you'd be better off not being here because other people supposedly aren't interested in you or your struggles.

Get help. I'll be thinking of you and so will many others.

~b.

oh hun not true not true l've been too miserable to go to the crisis centre often but l'll have a look

i don't feel it has anything to do with popularity but the lack of members online at the moment. i hope you get the help you need here and at the hospital which is where you should go feeling like this.

Im sorry hun, I rarely check the crisis centre as its often too upsetting for me. I have no clue about popularity on this site and honestly dont care. If you need help just talk and we will listen :)

I'm sorry, but I wasn't up when you posted in the Crisis Center. I certainly hope this board is not a popularity contest. That would be too sad. I hope you are feeling better this morning. If not, I think the advice to seek medical attention is a good one. Best of luck to you! ((hugs))

well I just signed on and saw your post. I hope your ok and feeling better. Call your pdoc for a med check and go to the hospital or the help line if you still feel suicidal. Their are people here who care I think they just arent' on line right now.

CSMS, we have no popularity contest here and I think you know that.

I just signed on and saw your post and am sorry you are feeling this way, but the best thing to do if you are still feeling this lousy, would be to go to the ER or call a crises hotline which many have suggested.

Again, you are as important as everyone else on here but you refuse to hear it, or to believe it.

Most people weren't online when you posted so try to give everyone a break.

THERE IS NO POPULARITY CONTEST HERE.

I disagree. There is a HUGE popularity contest here on the boards.... If you're in, your posts get responded to and you get help... If your out, you never get serious replies, just ones full of stupid jokes. So of course there is a popularity contest here on the boards and I'm destined to be an outcast.