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.
Friends, lovers, family, and/or support groups of other persons with bipolar are, in my opinion, crucial to any survival strategy. No one should go this hard road alone. Don't isolate yourself. Make contact with others. Michael Callen
All of us living with bipolar need support. We need to avoid the trap of isolation. Fear sets that trap by telling us we'll be rejected if we ask for help, or by leading us to believe that wee don't belong and don't deserve help. Besides, if we don't tell anyone how we feel, we don't have to admit our to ourselves.
We need to break the habits that fear uses to keep us isolated. We deserve to be listened to and understood. We deserve support in our pain and encouragement in our healing.
When we reach out to receive help, we discover that we also have lots of love to give. Just by opening up and sharing our feelings, we give someone else the courage to ask for help too.
When I admid that I can't do this alone, I gain incredible strength.
God grants me the courage to reach out and ask for help.
All of us living with bipolar need support. We need to avoid the trap of isolation. Fear sets that trap by telling us we'll be rejected if we ask for help, or by leading us to believe that wee don't belong and don't deserve help. Besides, if we don't tell anyone how we feel, we don't have to admit our to ourselves.
We need to break the habits that fear uses to keep us isolated. We deserve to be listened to and understood. We deserve support in our pain and encouragement in our healing.
When we reach out to receive help, we discover that we also have lots of love to give. Just by opening up and sharing our feelings, we give someone else the courage to ask for help too.
When I admid that I can't do this alone, I gain incredible strength.
God grants me the courage to reach out and ask for help.
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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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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
Couldn't quite mesh with those groups.
Once I found DS..a whole new meaning to my life came to me.
I could laugh ,cry ,give advice ,get advice...I've been here since early spring..and I'm here most everyday...and yes,I think all of go through that "addicted to DS " feeling..it passes,and then back to the boards!
From needing family and friends to dress me and feed me and stop me dying...to living alone now , a part-time job ( failing but accepting it )...and being terrified of looking back.I meet people and they don't know I'm BP till I tel them.
Memories are fine but I don't want to get stuck in a moment from a past that is gone.
I am still nervous and am grateful for being alive and here on DS.
People here make me feel that the future is as part of a community.So when I am with real life people and feel cornered...I think of DS.
It is JUST as real.
That took a while for me to realise, though.
Peace.
I have become very isolated and am having a hard time with shame. This comes from having to conceal from others in childhood my mother's illness, I suppose. I hate to even say this here.
Top Banana :))
I love nothing more to crawl in my hole and peep out at the world as it goes by. Then I feel guilty for the things I have missed and slowly one toe at a time creep out unnoticed. LOL :))