Journal Entry for May 4, 2008
May 4, 2008 9:45pm
WOO HOO i'm painting again with vengeance!
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ClaireB
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About Me
ClaireB
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About Me
I'm not on here to be morbid about my condition, but i've just come to realise how scary it is to be bi-polar and i thought it would be good idea to join daily strength - which i found purely by chance when i was wishing that there was something like myspace but just for people with mental health issues and here it was! Sometimes i just really want to talk to other people with bipolar (does anyone else hate that word???) share fears, experiences, concerns, advice, encouragement and understanding.
I'm not on here to be morbid about my condition, but i've just come to realise how scary it is to be bi-polar and i thought it would be good idea to join daily strength - which i found purely by chance when i was wishing that there was something like myspace but just for people with mental health issues and here it was! Sometimes i just really want to talk to other people with bipolar (does anyone else hate that word???) share fears, experiences, concerns, advice, encouragement and understanding.
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Bachelor degree in fine art- painter, love children, camping. Still living with parents- looking forward to building a self sustainable house in rural tasmania with my partner and his beautiful children
Bachelor degree in fine art- painter, love children, camping. Still living with parents- looking forward
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ty so much for your reply. it meant so much to me...you have no idea. im so proud of you. *hugs tightly*
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I have depression, schizophrenia and social anxiety disorder
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Hey there, I have just opened a group called The Aussie Group. Just a fun site where the Aussies and Aussie-lovers on DS can get together. Come have a look and join if you want. Invite your friends too. http://dailystrength.org/ groups/the-aussie-group witti
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Close Bipolar Disorder
Well I think we could all write books about our experiences with bi-polar, the crazy stories from our uppers, for me it included thinking I was chosen by god to be the mother of jesus reborn and he was in fact going to return as twin boys and that I was pregnant with them, to the descriptions of all the different and horrible ways that depression can take over our lives. I was diagnosed as bi-polar 5 years ago, in that time I've had 4 major mania's and 4 major depressions.
Treatments
- Depakote Too Soon to Tell
- Valproate- yet to stabilize me- probably due to non-compliance. What tends to happen is that I get depressed, go on anti-deps and epilim start to feel normal again, stop taking meds thinking there is nothing wrong with me, have a manic episode, followed by a depressed episode, seek help for the depression and the cycle starts again. But as the highs get higher and the lows get lower during the normal times i am starting to accept that i do have BP and that I've gotta take my meds.
- Seroquel Working / Worked
- It worked, I think... it brought me down from my mania but while i was on it I was very unfeeling, had no sex drive, was anti-social and I gained weight- which can all be side effectsof seroquel, but are also what usually happens to me after a manic episode anyway.
- Zyprexa Working / Worked
- really helped to lift me out of my last depression, but began to make me very irritable and clammy and sweaty so i stopped taking it. I was also afraid that it was tipping me towards mania.
