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- A new wellness center I joined introduced me to Mary Ellen Copeland's self-help "model"/self-devised plan called a Wellness Recovery Action Plan, or W.R.A.P. Have you heard of it?It includes many helpful tools we've all heard of and used through...
- If you owned a luxury yacht, what would you name it? What was the best complement you have ever received? Would you rather have $50,000 free and clear or $150,000 that is illegal?What is the most played song in your music library?Answer any, none,...
- What do you ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to do?
- Do you believe people/the public can tell you are mentally ill because of your personality, behavior, or mannerisms? What about the way you present yourself goes against the typical signs of either mania or depression? What makes you seem normal,...
- Have you ever felt that you've gotten poor physical health care because of your mental health diagnosis/diagnoses? Here is an experience I had yesterday that was really unnerving...Last week I went and had a new birth control device implanted in my...
- What are your goals this week?Any ways to get out of a funk in your plans?Any ways to stay out of a funk in your plans?Are you visiting your pdoc? therapist? going to any groups?working? volunteering?Any self-care tips you can share?For me, I am...
- It seems like, more often than not, bipolar folks are caring and compassionate people. After all, we know what it is to suffer. What do you do to make this world a better place? Do you show compassion, give encouragement, lend an ear, volunteer,...
- For me it would be fear I think...Isn't that awful? I'm afraid that if I don't work on myself, take my meds, go to my groups, therapy, pdoc...I think I'll end up dead or drunk/high which would = prison/hospital/dead. I fear these things for my...
- How many of us have pets that help us through the bad times? Just wondering if you find pets therapeutic like I do? I have a little dog and he is my angel - my constant sidekick. He takes my focus off of myself a lot - he is very much overly...
- When I use my own pics they always come out blurry. I have to resize them to make them upload but even when I only go down to 95%, they turn out all blurry. I notice most people have the same problem when using personal pics. Anybody know how I...
- I guess you would call it new age - when my therapist uses a telescopic pointer to tell me what area of my body I should focus on to alleviate anxiety. Makes me follow the pointer in all directions with my eyes till I determine which eye position...
- Not sure if it's okay to post this here and won't know how to delete it if it's not...so anyway...here goes...Yep, after over 9 years of not drinking alcohol (my poison), I just swallowed a pill with what was left in a glass of vodka and melted...
- Oh heck, after over 9 years of not drinking alcohol (my poison), I just swallowed a pill with what was left in a glass of vodka and melted ice!! Blehhhh. I had poured my hubby a drink earlier and put in too much vodka (yes, I bartended my way...
- Does anyone else get maxed out on self-help stuff?? I read books, internet articles, watch youtube videos...all trying to find "the answers" and "cure" myself, or become a better bipolar person, but I think I just drive myself batty. It seems like...
- I am balanced for the first time in years and I'm not sure if I should continue in therapy and groups. I am definitely going to continue my meds. Just not sure about the rest.