I had every intention of doing a lot more talking about my bipolar disorder and how it's affecting my life and how I'm overcoming it, but with my WRAP - which I haven't had to use more then once since moving home - and my medications - which I'm taking every day without complaint - I really have found things fairly smooth sailing. I've made it past ( Read more... )

My last shift (this past Sunday night/Monday morning) both my bosses commented on my decrease in productivity and I wasn't sure what to tell them. I haven't told them about my bipolar because I didn't think it would affect my work, yet now it has. Here I am, stable on my meds and not in danger of being hypomanic for any period of time. I have " ( Read more... )

So I've been on my regimen of fish oil (2400mg), resperidone (0.5mg), and Depakote ER (1500mg) for quite a while now. The results are simply amazing. While I've been elated as well as sad, it's been of average intensity. While in general this is a Really Good Thing(™), I do miss the hypo mania associated with the illness. I miss the energy and ( Read more... )