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 was out of my generic effexor for 2 days. The perscription had expired but I gave it a couple days so the pharmacy could fax a request the prescriber so they could approve a new one. My person didn't back the pharmacy in time and I found out on friday so I had to wait out the weekend. Wow! Friday Saturday night and Sunday were terrible. I had this bizarre dreams of set of dreams on Sat. night. They were really intense and long. Sunday night was a bunch of nightmares that were the worst I ever had that I can recall. It was like the flood gates to my subconcious had been flung wide open and everything flooded out. Of course during the day I felt awful. I remembered that sometime parmacies will give you a few pills to tide you over until the perscription is filled. My parmacy did give me a few pills and my perscription was filled last night.
Now I'm just dealing with the aftermath, feeling sad, scared and foolish. I feel so stupid I let something like this happen and I messed up my brain. It doesn't help that it is a dark and gloomy day with rain.
The good news is that will try to get my cat from behind the couch I found my son's phone back there. He lost it a few months ago and I tried calling it but the battery must of been drained so it went to voice mail so it didn't ring. I called support so all I need to do is buy a new sim card for it and have it reactivated because I reported it missing so long ago.
I read things on what has been discovered about bp. It seems that everything that I have heard or read that it is brought on by stress and genetics. There is nothing I can do about my genectics but I wish I would done more to avoid stress.
My teenage years were filled stress. From then to now I I've had a lot of stress and some tramatic events. Eventually my mind wasn't able to handle it like it used to which resulted in nervous breakdowns then a big on that resulted in being diagnosed with bp.
I knew stress wasn't good for you but I didn't know this could happen. I wish someone would have told me.
I don't know, maybe it was destined to happened no matter what I did.
May everybody here on ds being having a good day and if you're not, may things get better.
Hugs
Now I'm just dealing with the aftermath, feeling sad, scared and foolish. I feel so stupid I let something like this happen and I messed up my brain. It doesn't help that it is a dark and gloomy day with rain.
The good news is that will try to get my cat from behind the couch I found my son's phone back there. He lost it a few months ago and I tried calling it but the battery must of been drained so it went to voice mail so it didn't ring. I called support so all I need to do is buy a new sim card for it and have it reactivated because I reported it missing so long ago.
I read things on what has been discovered about bp. It seems that everything that I have heard or read that it is brought on by stress and genetics. There is nothing I can do about my genectics but I wish I would done more to avoid stress.
My teenage years were filled stress. From then to now I I've had a lot of stress and some tramatic events. Eventually my mind wasn't able to handle it like it used to which resulted in nervous breakdowns then a big on that resulted in being diagnosed with bp.
I knew stress wasn't good for you but I didn't know this could happen. I wish someone would have told me.
I don't know, maybe it was destined to happened no matter what I did.
May everybody here on ds being having a good day and if you're not, may things get better.
Hugs
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Hey All...I hope that you have a lovely, peaceful beginning of your weekI have a bunch of chores that need doing but may put them off til tomorrow and just hang out with my landlord/roomie todayWhat about you?...Anything special going on?Have a great day and take good care of you!!..Xo
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Once again I've had a fever today. I'm not going to the hospital because that's a huge waste of time but I did schedule a dr appointment for Wednesday afternoon.
((((Hugs)))) kiddo!
Bipolar is almost exclusively linked to genetics.
You didn't do or cause yourself to be bipolar.
You are not malingering and making up symptoms !
You have a real live biochemical imbalance of the brain...it's organic, it's not faked !
As for Effexor , Effexor with drawls are awful ! I'm glad you made it through your ordeal
Big hugs
dd
Bipolar Disorder is mostly genetic, so don't beat yourself up about it, you didn't cause this. It was destiny.
Whenever I go off any of my meds I have horrible side effects. If you at all can, it's best to get them refilled before you run out so you don't have to skip days, although I know that's hard to do all the time.
My day is going pretty well, thanks. Hope your rain clears up.