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.
Sometimes stuff that saners ( those saner than us) say can cause a confused mess of emotions to build in me.
Other times it's quite touching.
Some distant relative at a wedding.Been about 28 years since he's seen me.He sells Pharm drugs for a living.We talked and laughed..then..I mentioned my BP.
" Oh !" ..he said..." You don't look ...er..uh.."
"NUTS ?!?!" I asked coldly.He crumpled.
Prick.
Some are great though and very encouraging.
Have you any Saners stuff to offer ?
Other times it's quite touching.
Some distant relative at a wedding.Been about 28 years since he's seen me.He sells Pharm drugs for a living.We talked and laughed..then..I mentioned my BP.
" Oh !" ..he said..." You don't look ...er..uh.."
"NUTS ?!?!" I asked coldly.He crumpled.
Prick.
Some are great though and very encouraging.
Have you any Saners stuff to offer ?
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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??
Much later in the 'conversation', he said 'Why don't you just go ahead and do it?' (kill myself). Which I attempted to do, and put myself in a coma for two days.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THEM.
What they think, what they feel(I'm uncomfortable, waaah!), what they know(or claim to know), what they've "seen"(how many cracks in the wall have they counted recently??).
And they DON'T KNOW SHIT. It's all about them. they are so stuck in themselves they can NOT see, let alone consent to see...cuz all they see is how THEY would handle it.
Well DUHH! They're "sane" of COURSE they'd handle it a certain way.
I wonder if these so called saners really looked at themselves past t heir own egos, they might find out they're bipolar too. Scary, huh?
is that why i've been in 5 deep depressions and had a lifetime of anxiety? because i didn't want to feel happy? WTF.
i'd love it if it was that easy, to just say "I am going to feel happy and appropriately energetic all the time."
obviously, it isn't.
My ex boyfriend once said that when someone dies you can get over that death within fifteen minutes if you have enough self will. Same goes for any kind of mental illness. He laughed himself silly hearing about those. Unfortunately he messed with my head enough that I believed him and people like him for years afterwards.
Ahhhh, life's glorious lessons!
--David Bowie
Does ANYONE have any NICE stories about what SANERS SAY ??...
HULLOOOO-OOO!!!??
*tumbleweed*
hubby told me that being BP doesn't change me at all in his eyes.
I suffer BP with agoraphobia. I walk my dog every day nomatter how difficult it is, I walk round the little field, opposite my house,several times instead of the big field like everbody else. People look at me wierd - but kids innocently ask "how many times do you walk round the field"? I tell them 5-6 times coz my head goes dizzy otherwise.
Thier response is "cool - see u next time around!"
How wonderfully unjudgemental!