Bipolar Disorder Support Group
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. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.
Here's a sure fire prescription that your pdoc will never prescribe. I've tried it and it works.
Dr. Free (PhD 1999 in Silly Walks, University of Timbuktoo) prescribes a weekly good time.
Yep, we are all to go out and do one of the following:
-Go out with friends and paint the town.
-Fingerpaint with your kids, laugh, or just as good, your adult friends. Jackson Pollack would be a good example to follow. Paint wars are encouraged.
-Have friends over for dinner, to watch a game or to play funny board games.
-Go to the beach/a national park/a beautiful river or lake.
-Watch a funny movie.
This time should be written into our planners and considered as important as your most important business meeting, because it is.
Also, I prescribe a tri-yearlty unforgettable experience or epiphany.
Isn't it something how Pdocs never talk about stuff like this. Yet this works, it helps. Fun and joy and connections to others are important! Silly, for goodness sakes, silly is important! We should be connecting with friends and family, volunteering, helping others, going to football games or the opera or a museum or rodeo or truck pull or whatever.
Laugh, I saw a pumkin chunking contest recently. It was a hoot!
Any other ideas?
Dr. Free (PhD 1999 in Silly Walks, University of Timbuktoo) prescribes a weekly good time.
Yep, we are all to go out and do one of the following:
-Go out with friends and paint the town.
-Fingerpaint with your kids, laugh, or just as good, your adult friends. Jackson Pollack would be a good example to follow. Paint wars are encouraged.
-Have friends over for dinner, to watch a game or to play funny board games.
-Go to the beach/a national park/a beautiful river or lake.
-Watch a funny movie.
This time should be written into our planners and considered as important as your most important business meeting, because it is.
Also, I prescribe a tri-yearlty unforgettable experience or epiphany.
Isn't it something how Pdocs never talk about stuff like this. Yet this works, it helps. Fun and joy and connections to others are important! Silly, for goodness sakes, silly is important! We should be connecting with friends and family, volunteering, helping others, going to football games or the opera or a museum or rodeo or truck pull or whatever.
Laugh, I saw a pumkin chunking contest recently. It was a hoot!
Any other ideas?
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
Coping skills apply to BD. What we do during our down or up times alters us internally. The chems are actually altered during activities etc. Stimulation and all that jazz :D
Another important thing that my hubby and I used to do but have gotten away from and need to get back to is having a weekly date night.
Date night might be a movie, going out to dinner, a quiet evening at home just the two of us, going for a walk and then walking through the park, It could be anything. The important thing is that it is scheduled, and it's consciously thought of as special time, just for the two of you. It works.... I've been happily married for 26 years...lol...must be doing a few things right.