Bipolar Disorder - Teen Support Group
This community is dedicated to teenagers struggling with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. Talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, and learn from others' experiences
I've had problems with my mental health for a very long time, they only started showing up when i was 7, i started doing dark artwork, self harming at 8, eating disorders and suicidal by 9, suicide attempts by 11. Anyway, i'm 16 now, and the state of of my metal health has enabled me from going to school. I haven't been since i was 11. Looking after myself was a full time job so i have had no education at all since. I got diagnosed with bipolar and put on anti-psychotics.
I'm now being urged by everyone to go to college in September as my mums money will stop otherwise (yes, it seems money is more important?). I'm willing to give it a go but what happens if i can't manage it? I'll be 11 again. Stopped education so everyone hates me. I don't want my family and such to hate me! And then without qualifications what job can i get? My life would be over before i'd even started it.
I feel so hopeless about the future and feel if i couldn't get on at college i'd have to kill myself (even though i really don't want to die) so no one has to struggle paying for me. Because there's no way i'd accept tax payers money for me, i would feel a right bum. I'd have no quality of life either.
Please, any advice at all about anything (to do with my situation) would be useful?
I'm now being urged by everyone to go to college in September as my mums money will stop otherwise (yes, it seems money is more important?). I'm willing to give it a go but what happens if i can't manage it? I'll be 11 again. Stopped education so everyone hates me. I don't want my family and such to hate me! And then without qualifications what job can i get? My life would be over before i'd even started it.
I feel so hopeless about the future and feel if i couldn't get on at college i'd have to kill myself (even though i really don't want to die) so no one has to struggle paying for me. Because there's no way i'd accept tax payers money for me, i would feel a right bum. I'd have no quality of life either.
Please, any advice at all about anything (to do with my situation) would be useful?
There are just so many options, tech schools, certification programs, 2 yr degrees, 4 yr degrees, career training programs, all kinds of things you can do. If I were you, I would try waiting for a day you're feeling pretty calm, reasonable, and confident and then start researching and writing down ideas!
Don't stress on the part about not managing well, yes it's difficult, I didn't make it past my first sememster, but now that I've gotten some more experience and my meds tweaked, I'm definintly going back! There are a lot of people who don't even try to go to school or further themselves like that so just giving it a shot is seriously awesome, and I wish you the absolute best of luck!
Ok well crap I'm getting kinda frenzied and my thoughts are running pretty jumbled right now so I got to stop typing but please message me if you want to talk about college, future, whatever some more. Hugs!!
I am at university right now, leaving a dark past behind me, yet still carrying my bipolar diagnosis in my back pocket.
You have every right to be nervous and scared; it is a BIG change. But independency is not that bad. Of course it can be frightening to feel "alone" at first, but you WILL adjust. You will ALWAYS have support wherever you go and you will learn (not the hard way, i promise) to be able to handle your demons on your own. And if you have trouble, there are plenty of resources here to help you. I have used counseling services after really bad episodes. It's amazing.
My advice is to jump in with both feet. Don't let anything hold you back and do this for YOU, not for your parents or their money. i am sure you will surprise yourself in the best of ways.
you realized i was dianosis with bipolar, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, OCD, Asperger,
and ADHD, i had truobles in school with my agression and my parents found better Support in canada, and from there my life changed i got funding to get a full time E.A., and Support, and ended up finishing my Grade 12, and now im going to the Unversity of manitoba to get Batchlor of medical and Science as well as my PH.D in medical Research. if want to know anything about Bipolar or supports, id be will to help