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.
Why do "we" get the pleasure of experiencing regular doses of loss? How many times does it take to learn about another aspect of oneself that only suffering reveals? I'd reallllllllly like to know the answer to that existential question. Where' Dostoevsky when you need him?
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Life has been really hard this past year. I'm really feeling down and alone. I can't talk to my family about my depression and anxiety their not very understanding about it. It's really hitting me since my mother passed a few months ago, plus stress from having to eventually move. Also having my niece coming around who suffers bipolar and refuses to take medication for it. Its been...
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When i was in the ER February 16th 2025, i was being admitted to ICU where i was for 3 weeks, then had to relearn to walk for 3 weeks in another hospital rehab floor, the nurse told me something that made me feel for over 18 months now that i was finally *safe*. She told me that the guy who raped and beat me 21 years ago now almost 20 years at that time, was in prison as of a month before that...
That's when you have to begin to look for where your heart fell and put it back inside you. You won't get anywhere without your will so you best get searching for that too.
Perhaps you've built steps that will take some of the edge off of the climb. If the mud has gotten the best of them and you need to rebuild, well hey, what can I say? Good luck?
No, I can't say a thing. It's got to come from the inside. Now that takes guts!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hope you feel better soon.
We should all be very skilled sailors by now!! I'm asking how skilled do I have to be!
Exactly my point Nester. I, personally, am not a perfectionist.