Bipolar Disorder Support Group
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I have made great strides in anger mgt. I try to take care of the problem at aggitation, irritation and frustration before it gets to anger. B/C once it gets to anger, I have a really really hard time controling it.
I isolate when I am super down. I do try to do things when I am just down. S/T that helps.
I have spent some time in restrooms just trying to get a grip.
If I am overtalking I have to conscienciously let the other person talk. Sometimes I don't start talking in a group until the end as once I start it is soooooooo hard to stop. So I figure if I let everyone else have their say and then I talk like in Sunday school class then that is ok. Besides often others will say my point. In this way I don't seem like a conversation hog.
In one to one conversation I try to watch how the person I am talking with is handling it. Are they doing ok with my rate of speech? Do I need to slow down? Are they comfortable with my rapid fire questions? Or do I need to stop? Are they really listening or are they showing nonverbal communication signs that they are done talking or want to be done talking. Most people will not say it. But their body sure does.
I try to ask them a question about themselves if I feel I am dominating the conversation. And then I have to really focus on listening. Racing thoughts are tricky.
My home is a mess s/t. Or I will kid that I need to fire the housekeeper or laundry lady. Of course that is me. Tee, hee. But I think it sounds funny. "I just can't get good help these days." Of course I have to be careful. Some of my friends are wealthy enough to have this luxury. Tee, hee. Not me. Not me. Oooooooooooh. Tee, hee.
Flaky. I don't like the term. Makes me sound bad. It puts me in a box. Oooooooo, I hate that!!
I prefer.............unique, passionate, original, creative, a person that is who she was designed to be. Me. Just me.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, I even told my mother-in-law that I needed a 24 hour plus notice if she expected my house clean. Otherwise she could come anytime she wanted. If it got to her I would whole heartly welcome her to clean the house. If that is what she felt she needed to do. That was ok with me. I tell others that too.
My oldest has a friend who has expressed total disgust at my housecleaning abilities at times. I gave her the opportunity to clean my house. She didn't want to. Darn it. But it got so ugly that I told my daughter that that friend could only come over if the house was clean b/c I didn't want to hear the ugly. It's like telling a fat person they are fat. Well, duhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Like they don't know. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee.
I told my daughter that if the house is clean or at least picked up that she can invite her other. Or she can clea or pick up and then she can invite that friend over. Of course she can go to her friend's home. They have a housekeeper . Oooooooooooooo, it is soooooooooo rough for that girl.
Like I am going to be repeativily insulted in my own home. Is hell freezing over? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Just so rough for that girl. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. To have such problems.
But I suppose each has their own. Yes?
TONIGHT?
Need I say more?
Never want to bring anyone else down. How selfish of me I should share it more often.
I feel raving mad today.
oh well....