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Life Form
I assure you I am a life form with bi-polar disease. Having a little trouble with a side effect. Troubled sleep.
Does anyone come here anymore????
I came here for mutual support for Bipolar disorder. I have seen no life forms as of yet.What's up?? Maybe this is a waste of time.
Just Joined
Just wanted to say hello. I am bipolar, diagnosed in 1996. Also diagnosed with PTSD.
I haven't read any of the posts, but I will. I am in a significant "crisis" at this time, feeling desparate, anxiety, hopeless, confuses, you get the picture.
When I have a little more time, I will come back and post more about what is going on with me. I feel very alone and abandoned right now. It's not just a feeling, I am very isolated from anyone other than my elderly father (for whom I am trying to function as a 24/7 caregiver) that I am afraid I have reached the edge of my own capacity to function.
Like I said, just wanted to say hello, and I'll come back later when I get through the morning needs.
I haven't read any of the posts, but I will. I am in a significant "crisis" at this time, feeling desparate, anxiety, hopeless, confuses, you get the picture.
When I have a little more time, I will come back and post more about what is going on with me. I feel very alone and abandoned right now. It's not just a feeling, I am very isolated from anyone other than my elderly father (for whom I am trying to function as a 24/7 caregiver) that I am afraid I have reached the edge of my own capacity to function.
Like I said, just wanted to say hello, and I'll come back later when I get through the morning needs.
Bi-Polar
I wrote this as a reply but I think it should be a post so. . . .
Therapy is 80% of the battle the meds are just to hold things at bay- - true some meds are bigger guns but when you have the tools you can fight the "demons". I was on a rampage once in the psychiatrists office and he said to my husband, "That is just the depression talking." It never occurred to me that I was not the bad person. The depression is the bad person. I am bi-polar. I take medication that are for schizophrenia patients. They have found that this medication works well with bi-polar and I am here to tell you that do but I have the therapy to fall back on when there are bumps in the road.
Therapy is 80% of the battle the meds are just to hold things at bay- - true some meds are bigger guns but when you have the tools you can fight the "demons". I was on a rampage once in the psychiatrists office and he said to my husband, "That is just the depression talking." It never occurred to me that I was not the bad person. The depression is the bad person. I am bi-polar. I take medication that are for schizophrenia patients. They have found that this medication works well with bi-polar and I am here to tell you that do but I have the therapy to fall back on when there are bumps in the road.
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