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Demanding. I think bipolar demands so much of me and doesn't like to be told 'later'.
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My Mom and my cat Cleo. Movies and stand up comedy. A really interesting book.
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My mother had two manic episodes about 15 years ago. She was going through menopause at the time and also some very emotionally draining circumstances. She had to be hospitalized due to the psychosis each time. She has been healthy ever since and she has never experienced depression. She is not on meds. She was diagnosed as bipolar, but I wonder if they got it wrong. Likewise, I experienced psychosis during an emotionally heavy time and I've been stable on a very low dose of meds ever since. I have also never been depressed. My doctors now do not think I am bipolar. They said I experienced brief reactive psychosis and the cause could be adrenal or hormonal. I am personally very sensitive to all chemicals like my mother, so it makes sense we would both react similarly to a shift in hormones exacerbated by emotions. It is scary to know my body can betray my mind so severely and there isn't much I can do to control it. I'm very grateful though to not experience mood swings thus far.
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All of them know. They all kinda banded together and leaned on each other for support when I was in the hospital. My episode was so extreme that I don't blame them. I have since shared my story with my extended family. They all know what happened to my mother and I wanted them to understand it wasn't her fault and there was nothing I could do to control it either. Sharing my story has helped our family heal in many ways.
We both posted at the same time, so I'll add my question again. Do you hallucinate when manic? |
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I've never had a hallucination. I have had some brief episodes of weird thinking and delusions lasting each a couple of days. I'm unsure if I've experienced full blown mania though. I definitely experience hypomania and mixed states.
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I went 38 years feeling normal and then had my first episode last November. It ramped up for a while, but I didn't know what to look for and it spiraled completely out of control. I've been stable since they brought me out of it in the hospital. I'm not sure how long this will last, but I pray it is forever.
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Pancakes waffles have too much dough for me? And something about the texture...
Do you have a result of triggers (for me it's high stress and anxiety) like hallucinations/some sort of weird psychotic moment where you live in the situation and can't shake it (fades when you dissolve the problem)? Maybe I'm doing this wrong? Answer some random question if I messed up __________________ Diagnosis: Bipolar Disorder II Anxiety Disorder OCD Meds: Lithium Lamictal Seroquel Zaprexa Oxazepam Lots of misc that I wont list, but feel free to ask about above |
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yes, I hate those feelings where you feel you're living in the moment the last one I had was because their was some building work going on (that involved ladders, obviously)
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Time travel. I can go to the future and see if there will be a cure for BP. I then would go back in history, to when I was in my twenties. Imagine what I would be able to do having what I know now and the skills to apply.
How many times you usually cycle in a week? __________________ Dx: Bipolar I, ADD, GAD. Rx: Fluoxetine, Buproprion, Olanzapine, Lamictal, and Strattera. |
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Certainly time travel over invisibility. I can't think of how invisibility would benefit me at all. More the opposite. But though I would love to go back in time, in some ways, I am a believer that fate is for a good reason, even if the circumstances are less than ideal. I don't want to see the future any faster than reality. I like to savor the present.
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Age 11 is the last time I can remember being really happy and just pretty care free. As an adult 24 was a pretty good year. I liked my job and has a couple of friends. I was pretty satisfied before the BP stuff happened at 25.
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If you had to eat one food (pizza or something, not the cuisine) for the rest of your life, what would it be? __________________ Diagnosis: Bipolar Disorder II Anxiety Disorder OCD Meds: Lithium Lamictal Seroquel Zaprexa Oxazepam Lots of misc that I wont list, but feel free to ask about above |
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Nachos.
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Obviously I don't count my parrot as a material possession, but if I was only allowed to pick one thing from my house he would be it, along with my hubby. Unlike my husband, who has many material things that are of extreme sentimental or high monetary value, I don't. I guess of my stuff that is of sentimental value, I'd say my engagement ring. It's not really that valuable monetarily, but it is something I'd be very sad to lose. I will also be sad to lose my car, but it will happen. It's a 1997 Honda Civic, but it is 100% mine (bought before I was married) and I love it. The framed photo of my mother is also dear to me, but not valuable monetarily. As for my personal somewhat high monetary value items, I guess a few pieces of jewelry or my grandfather's guitar. I would sell them if needed, and not be devastated. They're not that valuable monetarily. I guess it sounds odd separating my husband's possessions from mine. He wouldn't, but I sort of do, not that I'm planning on leaving him, or vice versa. Q: What is your favorite book of all time? |
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Summer of my Amazing Luck, but Miriam Toews. It's not her most critically acclaimed novel -and I have read all of those, and love them too. But, Summer, even more than 20 years after reading it the first time, still holds a little piece of my heart. My husband and read it aloud to one another, when, we were first together, and couldn't afford any entertainment except books and dvds borrowed from the library. He loved it too, and we still share one certain quote from the book each day, our way of connecting to those early days, and it reminds of us how much we really matter to one another.
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