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.
I struggle when I hear people use terms like:
"I am bipolar"
"I am insane"
"normal people"
"insane people"
"saners"
"insaners"
"Bpers"
I think the more I use terms like that, the more I segregate myself or classify myself in that way. What I say over and over or think over and over, becomes "me". I prefer to use terms like:
"I have bipolar disorder"
Because I am an individual person with many gifts and talents. Some of those have come from having the disorder. But if I see myself as "the disorder", I will allow myself to be just that and have no individuality. Therefor it lessens my opportunity to think more positive and move forward. Having bipolar disorder is no different to me than having any other illness. So I deal with it in the same way. Treating "it" and doing everything I can to live with "it" and be the best that I can be.
"I am bipolar"
"I am insane"
"normal people"
"insane people"
"saners"
"insaners"
"Bpers"
I think the more I use terms like that, the more I segregate myself or classify myself in that way. What I say over and over or think over and over, becomes "me". I prefer to use terms like:
"I have bipolar disorder"
Because I am an individual person with many gifts and talents. Some of those have come from having the disorder. But if I see myself as "the disorder", I will allow myself to be just that and have no individuality. Therefor it lessens my opportunity to think more positive and move forward. Having bipolar disorder is no different to me than having any other illness. So I deal with it in the same way. Treating "it" and doing everything I can to live with "it" and be the best that I can be.
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
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Has anyone tried these supplements? Do they give MGers more quality of life by improving memory and overall well being?Thanks!Barbel
Yr just nuts like me.That dippy denial too.
Bats in the belfry alright.
: )
See those ppl without BD often label us.. so it's just a standard rather than a double standard.
I did hear MrTim on one of his shows talk about ..if you have cancer ..you don't say. "I am cancer" so I try to say "I have BP disorder" not I am Bipolar.
No...too weird.