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March 10, 2006, 10:19 am PST
Hope
Quote From: regiec I have read many many posts on this topic. I think the show made the public (those who watch Dr. Phil) afraid of people with bi polar disorder. The show did educate me on how extreme it can get. And that its simply not just a normal thing that you can deal with on your own. I thought for the last 7 years that I could handle this on my own. Now I realize I was so wrong. In the last 2 months something has happened. The "demons" have taken over. Im very scared of what is to come next. I dont want to hurt anyone or myself. But I feel like viki27a except she has delt with this much longer then I. I am 26 yrs old and have had signs of this disorder since I was in single digets. Why does god do this to so many of us, is it a test on our souls? I have 2 kids they are 2 and 3 and I dont want them to hate me whan they grow up and realize they have a crazy mom. I dont know what to do. Im to shy to ask for help. I dont have any family who actually cares for me. My husband, well, I think he might regret ever getting involved with me. He said before, he only attracts crazy women. I wasn't this bad though when we did get married. Its so unfair to him. I have so many problems. I was molested when I was @5 by another female over and over. I thought it was a game. I hid that inside me for a long time. My mother is an emotionless peroson, and acted as if she never wanted me. She took me away from the only normal family I had. But my father would not be any help to me anyway. He has to many of his own problems, nerves and something wrong with his brain(he acts like a kid) So I grew up poor in an abusive household mental and physical, with my younger bro. then mother remarried. A man from jail, that supposivily raped or molested his own daughter. So I had that to think of alot! I got pushed futher away from the family, and at age 15 I moved out. Got an apt after awhile had a couple abusive relationships. Then I moved to another state with one of these loser boyfriends. I got molested again in my sleep. I was 19, it was thanksgiving, It took 5-6 months until I finally found a cop who cared. Thank You Buffalo Detective In Vero, Fl. I spent many nights(years) looking on the floor afraid someone was there. A monster on the floor. So many nightmares. I hate that Guy!
Now I am married, I married my best friend. I have 2 boys. and I am getting worse even though my life is better. At least its better on the outside. And back to the top. Im very afraid of this illness, its eating away at me. Im afraid
1 There is hope, I promise! Start checking out books from the library about manic depression, I know I keep posting "Bipolar Disorder: Rebuilding Your Life," which walks you through a pastor's experience of child molestation just like you, on to years of suppressing that, years of living before he ever realized he had bipolar. Then to the slow and painful realization he had to take meds, and truly the rebuilding of his life. Patty Duke's book was equally unique about how she found out, and her erratic nature before meds. The Unquiet MInd was fantastic because it's written by a dr. who didn't even realize she had bipolar until she was basically in her residency, even though she was around the clinical terms of mental illnesses all the time. So she sheds some amazing personal and medical light on the subject.
I guess the main amazing hope for you is that this is an illness that can be managed, even if for every step forward sometimes there are two steps back.
The second thing is that the posts here have been fantastic on pointing out the importance of meds, finding the ones that work but never quitting. If you had high blood pressure and medicine was helping you do better, you wouldn't get off the medicine; you would realize it was the thing that was helping your body be healthier. (That analogy was given me when I thought I was ready to get off Zoloft because my anxieties were lessening). You're welcome to email me; my email address is in my profile. It's easier to be shy by email because of the anonimity. : )
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