Well, when my therapist isn't available, I turn to my Live Journal bipolar peeps for help! So, here's the deal... I'm having one hell of a bad day ( Read more... )

Me again. So...definitely all the way into manicness right now, it's too obvious to deny it any longer. The thing that worries me is, how exactly do you tell the difference between hypomania and mania? I'm diagnosed as Bipolar II but I know that can end up developing into I. The times I've had episodes before, they've only ever lasted two or three ( Read more... )

Hello all. SO, not to get too graphic but, I have been REALLY REALLY OUT OF MY MIND HORNY the last couple of days. I know that "hypersexuality" is a textbook symptom of mania, and I have been having some other definite symptoms the last few days too. But the thing is the hypersexuality has never been a symptom for me before. And there's another ( Read more... )

Hey guys, I stumbled upon this and thought I would share:

Top Ten Terrific Things About Bipolar Disorder

1. Creativity. Visual arts, performance, writing, music; in all the arts bipolar talent is common and sometimes exceptional. Patty Duke, Ernest Hemingway, Trent Reznor, Sylvia Plath, many more. The link between bipolar disorder and creativity ( Read more... )

I dont know how to explain it all, but i was doing drugs, and then i started not understanding what people were saying i thought i was able to read peoples minds, i was paranoid and i still feel edgy up and down and all around. i feel so alone and i keep calling my ex boyfriends who just make me feel worse. I just hope i wont lose my mind all ( Read more... )

 Hello everybody out there.  My name is Nancy.  My PDOC says I have bipolar but she won't specify which one.  I'm on Abilify 10 mg and Prozac 80mg ( Read more... )

So um. How do you convince yourself to take your mood stabilizer when you're feeling SO FUCKING AMAZINGLY GOOD? (For the record, I'm only Bipolar II so technically I'm only "hypomanic," I mean I'm not doing anything too ridiculous I don't think...I'm just hardly sleeping/bouncing around nonstop...and forgetting to eat or turn the heat on for entire ( Read more... )

So um...at what point do you cross the line from hypomanic to full-blown manic? I got diagnosed Bipolar II last spring, but the last few days have been...um. Way more manic-y than I've ever been before. I've slept about 10 hours total since Tuesday...spending too much money, talking too fast, thinking way too fast, all that good stuff...I'm not ( Read more... )

i have been resisting the urge to SHOP recently.  there is a little voice in the back of my head going ( Read more... )

So it's 3am and I'm AWAKE! So awake. But feeling very lonely. So I tried out this site called omegle? Have any of you tried it out? It's a site where you can anonymously talk to strangers. I thought it would make me feel less lonely. But then people just disconnect from conversations at random points in time and it made me feel even lonelier ( Read more... )