Yes it blew 99.9% of what I wanted.

I retained my personal creativity and was married to a good nan until he died.

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I talked to my therapist today and she said bipolar is like diabetes you don't cure it you can only mangage it. So as far as dreams and goals go probably only if you mangage your illness successfully.

Bipolar, PTSD, agorophobia, panic attacks and insomnia have pretty much destroyed all my dreams. My dreams right now are making it till next week.

Yeah. I wanted to be something, anything worth getting out of bed for. At this point in time being a mom is THE most important job I could possibly have. But what about later? When the kids are gone and I have only myself to take care of? Who will I be then?

I was in school to be an Astrobiologist. The study of life in outer space. But my ex husband tried to kill me and I kicked his ass out. Had to quit school and work full time. Then I got sick . . . . .

Not sure yet...so far Addiction has stripped my dreams and once I admitted that and accepted that then faced with dx of bipolar.....

.I would like to think positive cause I just went back to school for the first time in 16 years for a 1 year cert. program. I hope I can handle it....I don't like to blame things on bp but its a fact that prevents maybe from doing certain things....I want to try to overcome this with determination but we'll see. nice topic!!!!

I just tried to go back to university but completely stuffed it up. When i look at this thread it just makes me want to cry its horrible. My dreams mean nearly everything to me, its hard to have to put them off for however long it takes, if at all.

Yes. And i say you are allowed to vent. If not here where?

It's hard to have dreams and goals, and be held back by illness.

And I know so many people with no dreams or goals at all, and they are just fine, not that they should be sick....just, its a little aggrevating, that it wouldn't matter much if they were, cuz they're not doing anything anyway, and don't seem to want to do anything.

But that sounds judgemental...i don't know there hearts, i just know what i see looking in.
and they are content, to have done just about nothing in there lives.

Don't have any dreams anymore. They've all been crushed into tiny pieces.

It crushed my dream of having a happy family. 1st with my BP then with my husbands.

I obtained a professional degree in dietetics. It was very hard. I managed to work over 10 years.

It seems like I had more determination or that I wasn't as sick back then. I stay at home with the kids.

I need a new goal or something to strive for beyond the kids. I am not a very good stay at home mom and my last attempt to work outside the home failed miserably.

Absolutely; I'm constantly fighting feelings of failure.
2 goals- teaching & writing.
Other 'goals' I had while I think hypo- like music, and other things I'm too embarrassed to talk about since I think they were just grandiose assessments of my talents.
Hard to know what's a goal and what's a pipedream sometimes.

Just Google them, Zsa x

yeah, bp screwed up my life but i am making the best of what i have..i can't work, i can't go to school..my dreams of what should be & what are stick around with me-but i know i have a disease & i accept that..i feel like a loser sometimes, i feel anxious about my future but i hang in there.please do the same..