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.

Spent most of the day in bed today with a migraine, but after the migraine was gone, I just could not get out of bed. I laid there thinking about everything and how I felt about it all. Depression has set in and typically I am depressed for about two weeks. This is not the life I wanted. I have little to show for my efforts of thirty years. I feel so ashamed and I know that everyone is talking about me. The circle of officers of my type is small and they tend to be always jocking for their next position and if the can do on the backs of someone else they will. A bit hard to explain with a very long. But nevertheless, I am depressed. I have my new PCM on Monday. I wonder how that will go. All I know is to tell her what she wants to hear or they will lock me up again. One time I told the internist what I felt and that I was in a hypomanic state. That yielded several phone calls, a call to my company and demands from the TDoc and PDoc to now start to see them twice weekly.
I can't seem to win. That brass ring is always outside my reach. I feel a failure in my career, marriage and just life in general.
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Ever since I stopped doing therapy because of insurance, I've been feeling that old tense and irritable sense of anxiety and stress. I hate that. I was making so many strides and changes during therapy, my therapist would acknowledge all of my progress and accomplishments, and I miss that reassurance. Today I thought about it, and I made those changes! She would always tell me that I chose to...
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In all it's splendid colour!!I'm up for a very short time I hope...It's too early for me but I always seem to have these early awake times where I'm not quite ready to get upAnother chore day for me as I didn't get done all I wanted to yestetdayI hope that your day is blessed...xo
peace! Mark
Note: in a cheap hotel as I came here ahead of the wife and let her close on the house.
The automatic negative thinking can really hurt us.... I struggle with it as well
MIndfulness classes might help you... It wouldn't be nearly as expensive as therapy outside the VA and I have heard wonderful things about this type of meditation..... xo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_negative_thoughts
A cognitive type of therapy would help this however it's expensive.... I was in a cognitive group years ago and it helped me a great deal.... I can't afford to go back and I've been thinking about meditation/mindfulness