I'm 29yo and am diagnosed with bipolar, GAD and ED-NOS. I recently moved from my own place in a fairly large city  with several friends who understood me to a very small city, living with my parents, and my only friend is my boyfriend. i feel very alone and out of place. I am currently attending school again for a degree in Ultrasound radiology and ( Read more... )

Hello, new friends! I'm Kate, I'm 18, and I live in North Carolina. I got back on livejournal as of yesterday (I created a new account, this one) to get support from others and tell the story of my recovery process.

( mentions of suicide/suicide attempts, self injury, family member with cancer & and mentions of an eating disorder under the cut )

Hi, I'm Christina from Portugal, 20 years old and studying Biochemistry in university. I was recently (this August) diagnosed with bipolar disorder, after years of depression, taking Lexapro and floating through my first two years of college (which I now recognize as being a manic episode). My psychiatrist initially put me on 50mg of Zoloft and 2mg ( Read more... )

Hi everyone!
I joined this community a while ago (we're talking a few years I think now), did an intro post then promptly took to lurking and commenting when I can. Figure I should probably do another intro post since it's been a while. So who am I?
( A short intro, nothing triggering I think, but just in case )

 Hi, I'm Julia. I'm 15 (which is young, I guess ( Read more... )

this is my first post here. i joined a couple of days ago.
my name is alex (i'm a girl), i'm 20 y.o. and i've been diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder when i was 12. i've been on almost all possible combinations of medication and they worked for a month or two and basically i would switch medication every 9-12 months.

it's been two moths since ( Read more... )

Hello. I'm Kirsten. I'm a 19 year old college student studying psychology. My diagnosis is Bipolar I and I currently take 400 mg of Seroquil daily, which has surprisingly worked well for me. I didn't have very high hopes considering I've tried about 8 other medications ( Read more... )

Hello all, my name is Lola and my "official" diagnosis is Bipolar II rapid-cycling, panic/ generalized anxiety disorder, emetophobia, mild ocd, and the list goes on. I have been on more medications than I can remember but the list includes: lexapro, zoloft, wellbutrin, trileptal, topamax, depakote, abilify, zyprexa, effexor (xr) and lamictal. Aside ( Read more... )

( Cut for length, and possible triggers )

( I'm new around here, so I thought I'd say hi. My name is Amanda, I'm 25, and I was diagnosed with Bipolar II about 7 months ago. )