Welcome Austinoo..... I am treated for Bipolar Disorder and have Complex trauma... Not as bad as some but it's hurt my life and yes things go back and forth at times

I'm on medication that helps symptoms of both and have done other things to help..... My biggest tool is gratitude...... Journaling helped

Exercise can help and although I haven't gotten into it meditation helps a lot of people... I've heard that Mindfulness can make a big difference... My old GP swore my it... xo

welcome back austin. it is good to see you again.

posilutely, i go up and down, back and forth and around in circles. largely, that is just, "welcome to life," but my case is more extreme than life's normal chaotic flow. i call my particular rendition, "the recovery 3-step." one step forward, two steps back.

then there are the setbacks that turn out to be breakthrough progress that starts out feeling bad, just because it's such a break from the business-as-usual.

how i deal with it varies greatly with the variables of the current setback. i lean heavily on my therapy support network to help me sort those variables and decide which tool to use for the case at hand.

Yeah, Austin, it's one of the things that's hard for me to deal with in having a disease that's chronic and not curable. Chronic means it will go in those cycles. That's why I need to belong to a support group long term--I can give support when the cycle is on the up side, and I can get support when the cycle is on the low.

I have PTSD and depression and anxiety I am also on medication and I do the meditation thing so hard to deal with these disorders

Medication AND meditation have both helped me, Austin. I was lucky enough to have a therapist who sent me to join a weekly meditation group the same week she diagnosed me with PTSD.

I would look up your medication and see if any of them have a side effect of causing anxiety

What medicine are you guys on If you don’t mind me asking

What medication are you guys on if you don’t mind me asking

I am on meds mainly for bipolar and for me that also includes a lot of anxiety and I am more on the depression side

I'm on Seroquel, Tegretol, and for sleep Restoril and Gabapentin as necessary

I'm on Prazosin for nightmares, AUstin. For me it's working a lot better than Seroquel did. I not only got free of nightmares, I started having sweet dreams, too, for the first time in years.