Topic : Bipolar Disorder

Hi Ladies. 

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Hi Ivy, my name is Carrie, i'm 25 and i'm also bi-polar. I do not take medications, i try to control it. Being around friends or family helps me alot. Even my in-laws (which i don't like very much). 

Sometimes, I feel exactly the way you do. I don't want to answer the door or the phone, but when i finally do, one of my friends will tell me some new gossip or come over so our kids can play together. Then I feel all better. Sometimes we all set up a day to ave a bacardi party, and make dinner or fajitas. Just try to stay busy. I know you're probaly thinking that i have no idea what you're feeling, but trust me I do. I have to take care of my severly schitzophrenic father who doesn't even like me. It sends me into rages sometimes, so I'll just call a friend, and we take our kids to the park. Friends and family help alot. If you don't have many friends, I'll e-mail you whenever you want. 

CHEER UP GIRL! God loves you.       -Carrie 

Its nice to hear other peoples problems with his disorder. 

I have had this disorder since I was little, but was only diagnosed with it when I was 17. Sadly it took a suicide attempt to get help. I'm not medicated because I don't have insurence and can't afford my meds. When I have "mood swings" as my family calls them, nobody knows the severity of how I feel. When I get angry (which is often) , they call me a spoiled brat. Like i'm putting on an act. Like I brought this onto myself. When I get depressed, it's my fault for screwing up my life and being who I am....I just feel that no one understands. I always feel like my life is in a haze. That I'm stuck in a place where I will never go anywhere. That this is all life is. 

 The scary thing is..I have a 15 month old daughter...who I can see is already showing signs of it. I mean..i keep telling myself that she is just being a kid. I mean..for all I know, she could be. She's my only child...so what do I know. But she's only 15 months and she gets soo angry sometimes. She hits, screams,...sometimes she can be really happy and at the drop of a hat she can just..change. When she gets angry..she not only hits other people but she hits herself as well. She'll pull her own hair... 

I just don't want her to be like me a live my life. 

I don't know where this reply was going...I got stuck in my own little world. 

It's just nice to know I'm not the only one with these problems. Although sometimes it feels like it. 

Michele hi, 

 i too was diagnosed wrong. but the doctor didnt really want to diagnose me with bi polar but gave hints too it. i was on every anti depressent you can think of. then i went on a high and could do anything and felt very good, went on spending sprees and very over confident. then one nite i cut myself and had some alchol to ease the pain i was feeling. that was not the bi polar as i realize now. but anyway my doctor sent me to see a psyschiatrist. best thing they could of done she asked me lots of questions and looked at my previous medical records. Diagnosed me with bi polar, put me on lithiam and that made me very sick. but i am highly sensitive to meds. then she put me on something else and it leveled out the highs and had to have an anti depressant for the depression. the doctors can give you samples of meds and they can get you in contact with companies that give it out for free or at a real low cost. as to the therapy if you cant get to all of them dont. go to one a wk or every two weeks. what ever you can do. you know your limitations. its is a very expensive disease to have. but if you can get thru the inial part of it you will be fine. Also find health care providers that do it on a sliding scale. that helps alot. Been there done that. sorry you are having such a hard time.  

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