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I wonder if anyone here is suffering this? It's something I am having to learn about, and wondered if there is any advise around here? I'm being lumped with tablets, and nightmareish days. Can anyone tell me anything me more about suffering this?
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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We have bi-polar people here.
I have a question for you. Do you think bipolarity is one end of a scale, such the one end is "not at all" and the other end is "totally"?
I suspect it may be, because I suspect that we are almost all of us not at the "not at all" end
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Hmm where do I start?
My family put me into a rehab centre thinking I was a drunk. I was. Drink stopped a LOT of hurt. The Councilor referred me to a new Dr and they ran me into mew amazing drugs. I have to live on tablets each morning and night.
It's so difficult to talk about.
What do u want yo know?
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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OK, this is nothing to be ashamed of..... most gay guys have issues and if they say they don't then more than likely they are in denial.
If the Dr. and his medication is helping then it is a good thing...
I would however recomend that you research the medications you are given... Knowledge is important especially when it comes to putting chemicals into your body.
One question though... Doen the druge come with one on one therapy? If noy then think about talking to a good therapist. Talking helps alot
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Bon, I have Bi-Polar disorder and PTSD. If you need any info on the meds I have been prescribed or any side-effects, you can e-mail me and I will tell you about my experiences with them. Also about the sucess and failures that went with them.
aqua
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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What you have is a distinct, diagnosable, ailment. It's a chemical imbalance in the brain that requires input of chemicals to balance you. It's not relly different from, say, diabetes. It just has crappy effects in moods and reactions to stuff.
It takes a while to get used to that thought, though
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy wrote:
> We have bi-polar people here.
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> I have a question for you. Do you think bipolarity is one end of a scale, such the one end is "not at all" and the other end is "totally"?
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> I suspect it may be, because I suspect that we are almost all of us not at the "not at all" end.
I agree with you, we're all on the scale at some point. Depression - whether mild or severe is part of human nature, as is the joy we all feel from time to time.
Quote from Wikipedia:
Bipolar disorder is not a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated mood, clinically referred to as mania. Individuals who experience manic episodes also commonly experience depressive episodes or symptoms, or mixed episodes which present with features of both mania and depression. These episodes are normally separated by periods of normal mood, but in some patients, depression and mania may rapidly alternate, known as rapid cycling. The disorder has been subdivided into bipolar I, bipolar II and cyclothymia based on the type and severity of mood episodes experienced.
Also called bipolar affective disorder until recently, the current name is of fairly recent origin and refers to the cycling between high and low episodes; it has replaced the older term manic-depressive illness coined by Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) in the late nineteenth century.[1] The new term is designed to be neutral, to avoid the stigma in the non-mental health community that comes from conflating "manic" and "depression."
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: Music and Cats." - Albert Schweitzer
It's like Mad Max out here: guys doing guys, girls doing girls, girls turning into guys and doing girls that used to do girls and guys!
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Can I just check this, REALLY?
Wikipedia is your point of reference? Thats a good place to look for info?
Ok. I must do some reading. NOT!
Bon
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Hey Now,
Ive been depressed 6 years now i think i finally got it beat now that im off the lexapro....
depression or any mental ailment for that matter takes three things to cure
1.medicine
2.professional help{someone atleast a friend to chat with}
3.willpower to say to yourself i can beat this and deal with this
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Where would you recommend instead?
David
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13800
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Wikipedia is ok where the entries are cited. It acts as a reasonable first point to look, no more and no less. But it is not authoritative, not ever.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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