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Book shop experience(An Unquiet Mind)

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I went and bought the book An Unquiet Mind at the weekend.Was a book store i dont usually go to so couldnt find what i was looking for.Asked a female member of staff to help me out.Dont know why but i said the book was for my mum,once we found it the woman told me she was bipolar.It really hit me as ive never actually spoke face to face with anyone that is bp.We ended up chatting for ages about how we are and the things we do.When i left the shop we both said goodbye and keep well etc etc.I couldnt stop thinking about it and for some reason it really cheered me up.It just made me feel better i think.Do any of you know a fellow bipolar and if so how did the subject come up? Apart from on here obviously! x
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Isn't that great? Yeah, I have..i hospital, through friends, and I went to support group when travelling overseas, which was interesting.
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I dont know any other bps in real life. I wish I did.
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She was bullshitting ya.
To sell the book.
She told me she was Tigger when I got the Winnie The Pooh stuff for Xmas presents.
She has Munchausen's.
So she said...blah.
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An Unquiet Mind is like the secret handshake of beepers everywhere.
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Was a mad experience! Once she told me she was bp i told her the book was for me.I told her i said it was for my mum as i wasnt sure about telling a stranger as some people think we are crazy and might attack at any time.We both laughed at this and she said "well sometimes i do,depends how much you piss me off".We were both standing there laughing really loudly,the whole shop turned round! My boyfriend was over the other side of the shop looking at fishing books and said we were making a total racket and that everyone was chuckling at our loud laughing.It made my day x
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Pluck,stop being bad.Il smack ur bumby! x
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zhKJfvRtc

All we need to know about handshakes.

Luvya VicnLou2
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My therapist recommended that book. But like all the books he recommends, I have yet to check them out. The lady who wrote Unquiet Mind puportedly also wrote "the" textbook on bi-polarism.
He told me about that book and I thought, "That's a good way to describe BP." My mind won't ever stop.
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Love Eddie Izzard! Sound card on my computer is fecked so cant hear it,how annoying!! x
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My mind never stops and is all rambling on to itself.I try to ignore it but it wont let me.My boyfriend said to me this morning that his take on it is this,he thinks im very brainy and my brain needs constant information and to learn new things and if i dont give my brain what it needs thats when i start "acting up"! Interesting,i liked being called brainy xx
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I actually didn't get that much from Unquiet Mind. Her experience was just too different from mine or so it seemed.

As far as meeting other beepers there seem to be an abundance of them at AA meetings.
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Im only a third of the way through the book,been ok so far but im not blown over by it(so far!) xx
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