Topic : Bipolar Disorder

I have been recently diagnosed with Bi Polar as well as other disorders and have no true idea what to expect from this disorder or what will happen to me from here on out.  If anyone here can share their story or even just the day by day 1 day or 1 hour at a time I would really appreciate it.  I have never been a member of a group like this before so not sure how it works.  I just can't sleep again & like Dr Phil & stumbled on to this group so I joined hoping it will help me make sense of what is happening to me and maybe help me cope. 

I really do feel like a lost child. 

yoiur welcome. I dont know any laws in Ky. ike i said usually the consultaton is free.. and if they win they take a percent. I use to worry about the label too. But after awhile. well its say you have diabetes thats what you have. Even with bi polar she doesnt have to tell people she has it when she starts working. Just that some days are good and some days are bad.  

Recently i was diagnosed with Borderline Disorder, I was so angry it do to why all these labels. But no one else knew. and they deal with these things all the time. My friiend works at SSi in the Medicare dept. and she sees people with disorders mental all the time.And she says she her heart goes out to them. she has not judged me because of ending up in the hospital and taking care of my kids for eight days.
Its how you look at it. and get past how others will look at her. if they have a problem with so be it. they just dont understand and if they want to then tell them.  

your doing awesome....keep up the good work.  

Blaze  

I am just now being or in the process of being bipolar.   I have lived 57 years knowing something is not right with me.   My whole family especially my mothers side should have been diagnosed many many years ago.  A few years ago my youngest son was diagnosed with bipolar shizoid.  But he was the first and only to be diagnosed with any type of bipolar.  I know when I was 20 a doctor told me that I was borderline manic whatever that means.   Now at 57 someone is saying bipolar?   I have lived all this time without medications or becoming an adict to street drugs.  That is not to say I have not had some really hard times, but somehow(with the help of God I am sure) have made it this far.   To anyone who says to do it completely without medications I say humbug.  I am sure my life would have been very much different and I am sure better if I knew then what I know now.   I try to help people online as much as I can, and then when I see I am not helping them I try to get them into counseling of some kind.  I don't know most of the time if it works, all I can do is try.   I look at it this way if I have come this far then maybe something I have learned will help someone not have to live this long without making changes in their own lives to be happy with themselves and the life they choose.   Thank you for listening.                                              Carrie