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.
Anxiety weighs down the human heart, but a good word cheers it up.
-Proverbs 12:25 (NRSV)
I flipped through to the sports page, wondering what had happened at the cricket match. "Muralitharan fails to get 10 wickets," declared the headline. Muralitharan was the star bowler for the Sri Lankan cricket team. Much further down, in much smaller print, the article reported that Muralitharan had taken several wickets. Indignation rose hot and strong within me. Why had the headline focused on what the bowler failed to do? Why hadn't the sportswriter praised the man for what he accomplished?
Then my mind flashed back to the night before. I had found fault with my husband for forgetting one item on the grocery list. My cheeks felt hot as I remembered that I had not even thanked him for the bags of groceries he had carried upstairs. Before saying both "Sorry" and "Thank you" to my husband, I asked God to keep reminding me to choose to praise rather than to nitpick, to commend rather than to criticize.
Tanya Ferdinandusz (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
-Proverbs 12:25 (NRSV)
I flipped through to the sports page, wondering what had happened at the cricket match. "Muralitharan fails to get 10 wickets," declared the headline. Muralitharan was the star bowler for the Sri Lankan cricket team. Much further down, in much smaller print, the article reported that Muralitharan had taken several wickets. Indignation rose hot and strong within me. Why had the headline focused on what the bowler failed to do? Why hadn't the sportswriter praised the man for what he accomplished?
Then my mind flashed back to the night before. I had found fault with my husband for forgetting one item on the grocery list. My cheeks felt hot as I remembered that I had not even thanked him for the bags of groceries he had carried upstairs. Before saying both "Sorry" and "Thank you" to my husband, I asked God to keep reminding me to choose to praise rather than to nitpick, to commend rather than to criticize.
Tanya Ferdinandusz (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
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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??
Anyway, I'm pissed off beyond belief today at my pdoc. Stopped on the way home to pick up Rx for hubby and bought a cool hair thingee. I'm trying to let it grow, and we all know how shitty it looks growing in.
So I put this new thingee on and asked my hubby if he liked it...he trashed me totally.."why do you need my approval", etc. He could have just said nice or something...but no, piss me off more why don't you?
THEN son comes up takes one look at me and says, hey I like the new hair thingee. I could have kissed him. Just a few tiny words, totally picked up my spirits.
He leaves me cards in the mornings I am having a really rough time ones from hallmark then adds something of his own and he bought me my Mustard onion pretzel pieces by Snyders my favorite snack and went to the school today with me for a lunch date with our son. They do this at Christmas time. Our son was so happy to have both of his parents there. And to think he did all this in just 24 hours. He is wonderful. I don't say it enough.