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 am an "everything has a place" person and so the reality of my house right now is hard for me to live with but not so hard that I do anything about it. Maybve you understand.
It seems as if it has been, "If it's not one thing, it's another," and that the putting away of things has just been moved to the bottom of the list below, adjusting to meds, getting to therapy, adjusting to new realizations, sleeping and connecting with others who have the bipolar diagnosis.
In my house there are bags of groceries still where I placed them when i got home where the idea of success for me, now, is "Are the refrigerated items put away?"
I have a piece of chocolate, bitten into, just sitting on the file cabinet. Mail is just piled up. Clothes are piled one on top of another.
I have not caught-up yet. When will i catch -up?
Space is no more. Has anyone else ever had things get to this point and have you gotten out of it eventually?
Give me some hope.
It seems as if it has been, "If it's not one thing, it's another," and that the putting away of things has just been moved to the bottom of the list below, adjusting to meds, getting to therapy, adjusting to new realizations, sleeping and connecting with others who have the bipolar diagnosis.
In my house there are bags of groceries still where I placed them when i got home where the idea of success for me, now, is "Are the refrigerated items put away?"
I have a piece of chocolate, bitten into, just sitting on the file cabinet. Mail is just piled up. Clothes are piled one on top of another.
I have not caught-up yet. When will i catch -up?
Space is no more. Has anyone else ever had things get to this point and have you gotten out of it eventually?
Give me some hope.
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It has gotten so out of hand, that I find it totally overwhelming. Where to even start?
I try, with some -- though limited - success, to end each day with the house a little bit better than it was the day before. Even if it's something as minor as just having one book put away.
I wouldn't let anyone step foot inside my door.
My son's caseworkers come every three months. So every three months, I HAVE to at least make the living room look passable.
This is done by picking up all the heaps of things and putting them into another room with the door shut.
I hate being this way!!!!!
I am an over-achiever and this bp just has put a wrench, it seems, in achieving what i used to think was important.
At least I ate. Right?
I am safe.
I have a roof over my head.
tears.
I have clothes on my body.
I have a bed.
I have food.
I have people to talk to now that i have found DS.
I have my breath.
I have ten fingers.
Does that relate to anyone else? How do you cope?