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.
You have to give up everything great, love, lust (is that an emotion), excitement, pride, that feeling you get when you were right and your wife was wrong. All of it, but no more f-ing BP moods swing, suicidal tendencies, none of it. Think carefully. SRC
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I gave my 2 week notice last Friday 13th. Now to join you fine people in a life of leisure and nothing else to do but to look out for myself....is it just me or does that sound pretty boring? My goal was to live to retire and I guess having to take early retirement because of health reasons wasn't exactly the way I had planned things. I just can't stay in that building that is reeking mildew...
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
For better or worse, I am bp, have been all my life.
Yesterday, a flock of pigeons landed around me, perhaps a hundred birds, time slowed, their beating wings, the synchronous dance of their flight. Last week, the sound of frost crystals bouncing off of my car was like a thousand wind chimes. A few weeks ago, the experience of walking under a full moon through fresh snow, the night was so beautiful that I was overwealmed, tears welled up and I had to sit down. The flip side, I shudder at even thinking about thinking about how I feel during the down times...
For better or worse, I am bp to the core. I yam what I yam. I feel things with such intensity, beauty and pain, yin and yang.
I life without love or passion is not a life. BP is only a piece of me. And to know that I have survived it among other things, that I do not allow it to control my life means enough.
A life without love?
Never.
I've fantasized about having a switch installed so that I could switch my emotions on and off.
Nothing is ever gained if nothing is ever spent. The bottom line is pain brings us closer..........and Love heals us up.
Life is good, Bp is just another route for the wound to enter.One learns insight into the self , and others when there is suffering.I've grown much more sensitive
to that.I believe pain is what draws us out from ourselves and purposes to serve others.