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.
It makes me so angry when the ignorant media tells the public half-truths. I saw something on the news this morning (after swearing I wouldn't watch the news anymore!). A kid on a school bus beat the shit out of the bus driver because he didn't like how they were driving... the parents said it's not their son's fault because he is bipolar. Fine, might be true to a certain extent. But now all bipolar people are "crazies" that beat up people for not doing something the way they think it should be done! I was just thinking about opening up a little bit more to friends/coworkers, but no way now! Shit like this happens all the time. Most of us struggle, but most of us do not beat people up. The ignorant media doesn't say anything positive.... just leaves it at "bipolar" and the ignorant public fills in the blanks. Anyone else have an opinion? Angry and paranoid....
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I have been homeless off and on for over a year now. 2 days ago I lost my entire support system. I have been diagnosed as bi-polar with severe depression. I am not on any meds anymore. I do not see a doctor anymore. My boyfriend was arrested for a warrant from 2001 that he didn't know he had. I feel like everything is pointless. Everything I try to do falls apart. I have no one...
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Hello,So I've been away from support groups in general for about 3 or 4 years including this one, but I used to be a regular here on D'S, when I was on and off of meds and really struggling. I'm doing better as I've finally accepted treatment for bipolar 1 disorder. I've been taking haldol for about 2 years now and haven't been hospitalized or had any major symptoms save for this nagging...
Nor the one that died of his own hand due to the frustrations of being misunderstood.
The public and the media only want the bad news, banding us altogether is the norm for them.
Remember your own uniqueness and celebrate that you know more about it than they ever will, You are special, and don't bother what the co workers think, if you can enlighten one, that one person in time will inform another and so on, Just starts with the one (even if the others choose their own ignorance)
I'm just being optimistic.
They're all wankers really.Everyone.
In the same way that they do not accurately report many research studies objectively, they also have a tendency to make negative exemplars for the mentally ill...
It's horrible. The biggest and most irreparable of course is Virginia Tech. However it was with an anxiety disorder patient, not a bipolar, but the effect is still the same since all mentally ill are generalized. Except perhaps major depressive disorder people.