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 mean I have been through all the websites possible and I have not yet come across any sites that offer a way a life for people that suffer from bipolar disorder.
The main sites are mainly information for family or friends and suggestions for what a person should do if they have an episode.
I find there are no solutions to a person who has become stable and wants to get on with their life and to maintain their illness.
They always say its possible to lead a productive life with the right treatment, but they never say how, they just drop a few names of famous people that have suffered from it.
My case manager just checks on me to see if I'm and if my meds are being effective. Maybe I should talk to her more about what I iwll do this year, now that I am reasonably ok with my current meds, even tho it doe smake me sleepy.
If I was ever able to work again I would need not just the understnading from my employer but the acceptance that I mightn't perform as well as I do on other days and might need more time off than others. Not great credentials I know, but in a hypomanic phase I can get a lot more done in an hour than what a person could in a day.
But its not work I'm looking for, its a new way of life...and its seems to be the first thing that come to peoples lips is to get a job.
I'm still lost with this, even after talking with you guys...I've accepted my losses, now I just want to see what options are available, does anyone know where to start?
The main sites are mainly information for family or friends and suggestions for what a person should do if they have an episode.
I find there are no solutions to a person who has become stable and wants to get on with their life and to maintain their illness.
They always say its possible to lead a productive life with the right treatment, but they never say how, they just drop a few names of famous people that have suffered from it.
My case manager just checks on me to see if I'm and if my meds are being effective. Maybe I should talk to her more about what I iwll do this year, now that I am reasonably ok with my current meds, even tho it doe smake me sleepy.
If I was ever able to work again I would need not just the understnading from my employer but the acceptance that I mightn't perform as well as I do on other days and might need more time off than others. Not great credentials I know, but in a hypomanic phase I can get a lot more done in an hour than what a person could in a day.
But its not work I'm looking for, its a new way of life...and its seems to be the first thing that come to peoples lips is to get a job.
I'm still lost with this, even after talking with you guys...I've accepted my losses, now I just want to see what options are available, does anyone know where to start?
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the career issue is challenging and i've gone through a lot at work because of manic depression.
however, i hate to just plug a book but the reason i wrote the book 'Bipolar 101' was because i was like you trying to find a source for a way to manage my illness and my life so that i could stay sane. i even have a chapter on how to advocate for oneself at work, with loved ones etc. i really wrote the book so i could have a one-stop resource for myself.
information is great but what to do with it is another thing. Bipolar 101 provides you with tools to use the information it provides on nutrition, sleep, exercise, stress management, meds, therapy etc
I don't think any kid would respond by saying they would like to be on a disability pension and to have a type of mental illness.
Well its not like that now...if I fight it I do get psychotic..I really just have to roll with it.
I guess thats why work seems impossible...if I have an appointment the next day and it keeps me awake...I start getting sleep deprevation which I'm really sensitive too and can cause an episode too..
Fuck this..I am fucked really.
No youre not. Why dont you have a car? Dont you want one? Maybe you should set a goal to get one. This is what helped me.. I couldnt work so I made it my job to improve my lifestyle. If I needed a good car and I didnt have much money I bought an old one and fixed it myself.
The idea is you wanna feel like you are going somewhere in life. It really makes you feel good if you learn new skills too. It wont take long and your life will get better.
Is there anything that you really just LIKE to do a lot? Something you have liked to do since you were a kid? A hobby, something artistic, anything like that? I'm trying to get more into things that just interest me a whole lot, and it's slow going, but so far it's helping me feel like I have something to hang onto.
One thing that always pissed me off when it came to people pushing employment, is that they don't want to deal with the reality that if I keep on having short stints at jobs before I go off manic and run away, screw some stuff up and get fired, etc., one's work record gets muddier and muddier until the attempts you make to try and work backfire and no one wants you because your work history sucks.
And, I have come to that very conclusion myself---that there IS NO effective treatment for BP, there just isn't. Oddly, the MEDS are the most effective part of the treatment they offer, and it's so-so. But, all the rest of the stuff they're supposedly able to do for us? Crap. Just a bunch of bullshit, because they really don't know what this is, and they really aren't trying THAT hard to figure out how to prevent it from destroying us. Sorry. I hope I didn't make you feel worse, I just don't believe in sugar coating when I know that people are really screwing us over.
I feel ya on this, box. Big time.
They just give you medicine and do not come close to preparing you for the great changes that are to come your way in life, in thinking, in everything.
A big change occurs from being bi-polar non-medicated to medicated.
Alot of shit occurs to you and in your life.
People look at you diffrently and think of you diffrently.
You think diffrently and see things in a diffrent light.
BIG CHANGES!
Instead they give you pills and just send you on your merry way.
Coping is something they miss the ball on.
It has taken me a year and a half from complete breakdown to just sort of get used to the change in me and how others would treat me.
Here is an example.....
My wife wants to divorce me and it is mostly because of me being bi-polar and her wanting to have a life away from a bi-polar person.
That is alot of stress to deal with and as you probably know stress raises bi-polar attributes.
OR
I was heavily religiously twanged out before meds and now after I want to stay away from it like the plague.
BIG CHANGES!
Being sick, misunderstood, and treated the way we get treated by people is not an easy life. We are already super sick and then get piled on!
So what is the answer....... ??????????
Maybe bi-polar communes.
We can all be sick and wacked out together.
With the right cocktail of meds and therapy, we aren't fucked...really.
The fact that there is no cure is boloney.
Easter bunny, santa clause and all that.
Yeah its up to me if I try real hard and get psychotic again...as sure as the sun will rise in the morning.
yes bigotery is the answer.