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.

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I'm 27 and was diagnosed about 7 years ago. At first I was reding a brochure about bipolar to my roomate to my roomate at the time. It spoke of the sleepless nights, the obsessive spending, the endless energy, and her response, was " cool there's a disease for your personality". I was just wondering if anyone else ever had trouble differentiating between where the disease ends and you begin?
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i made this account because i hope this reaches someone who can understand. I feel immense shame and guilt over my past behavior while manic. I have ruined relationships with friends and family members, gotten tattoos that i dont want, done things that make me cringe. The weight of the self hatred gets to be too much sometimes. I feel like a burden. Nobody understands. I hate myself today.
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Our great friend OlderC could really use some love and support right now... She's hit a rough patchBig squishy hug Kat... I hope that you start to feel better really soon.... xo
If i did not have that the people around me would have not servived.
Then in my late 40's ,things started to unravel,I wasn't so energized,I wasn't so happy...I lost interest in most everything.Then came a series of trajic events,and I slowly at first..then plunged into a phycotic depression.It was my first episode of that magnatude.....been up and down and dancing around those poles since then(several years)..
So am I bipolar...or is bipolar me?
I really can't answer that questian.
The diabetic ,is not their disease,(they had normal blood levels at one time) the cancer patient is not their disease(they had normal celluar growth at one time)...but bipolar....since it all has to do with wacked chem imbalances(probabaly starting in our youth)who knows?
Tell me why I even bother again?!?!?