I know having bipolar disorder is not a laughing matter but I do think we have to find humor in it sometimes. Otherwise, it's not healthy to go around feeling sorry for ourselves.

Oh its a hoot.... I don't feel sorry for myself but guess finding a good laugh in it all escapes me. Hey more power to ya if you have a good chuckle.

Yeah, now and then I'll find humor in it...in a sick & perverted way!
Last night I realized I had forgotten to take my a.m. meds. So I said to my husband "guess I won't be flying any planes today".
Ok...maybe it's too soon.
But I find humor in the absurd....otherwise life wouldn't be worth living.

I searched for a bunch of bananas the other day all around the house.My BP humour said to me 'calm down they must be somewhere, every thing has to be somewhere if its nowhere then its nothing and if its nothing then you ain't got any bananas. But I knew I had. I clearly remember coming back from the shops with bananas. I might be BP1, but I ain't stupid. So with these calming thoughts I smiled to myself and decided to make a cup a tea. Singing quietly in my empty kitchen Let it Be by the Beatles, I finished the tea making and went over to fridge to get the milk. Pulling hard on the ice book door as I tend to do, I was first met with a huge bunch of bananas on the top shelf. I laughed out loud as I never ever put bananas in the icebox. BP 1, depression Nil. It was a home win that day for team bipolar

Want a real good laugh? in 2009 I got extremely sick and I actually started seeing people- my friends and I and others- turn into apes! Freakin' monkeys! It was terrifying back then but I look back now and can laugh my a** off. It is pretty amusing when you stop and think about it. I mean, monkeys of all things? Come on Bipolar, give me a break!! :D

Love that Brokenpie

When i think about the past and and having all the craziness going on in my life i think about it and smiled and said to myself I'm happy im in a better place and on meds.

perhaps one day I can laugh at myself or this disease, just not now. :(

freenowfi - Hold that thought. When you have gone through the changes that depression teaches us and realise that not only despite, but because of your BP, your a loving worthwhile person I believe you will get better.

For me Lithium works. One time they were those damn tabs that forever had me going to see a pdoc for blood tests.

These days they are my love pills and they keep me grounded without going too far down, and if I feel the racing thoughts of going up, then a small increase in dose keeps me grounded. Off course one has to be careful with Lithium in your blood. A 750 count suits most beepers 500 is good for me. If levels get to 1000 then its danger time - so you decrease the dose with your doctors advise .

Not sure about other mood stabilisers, I have only been on those when hospitalised after manic highs that were totally out of control.

It took a long time for me to get to this stage. Been seeing pdocs since I was 18. I am not blas about it. I guess my head may explode again one day, but right now I am downbut.........grounded.

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain. I stop and complain that there's no rain.:

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