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athenagrace in bipolarsurvival

A little whine with my OT

Apr 29, 2009 19:01

Sorry, being an uber poster right now

My Whine:
I feel like a loser. I'm not even good at being bipolar II. I can't tell what is depression and what may be mixed. I hate my lack of impulse control right now, because it leads to smoking (when I was doing pretty well about quitting), and binging and purging (which, seriouslly, hello, why are you back ( Read more... )

frustration, questions/suggestions, lack of motivation, emotional rollercoaster, bipolar management

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athenagrace April 29 2009, 23:32:49 UTC

What was the reason?

mplsindygirl April 29 2009, 23:48:36 UTC

I read OT as Occupational Therapy, then realized you may have meant Off Topic. But, I think your entire post is relevant to bipolar. I am going to do some research about daily at-home biofeedback. I hear good things about it.

dedqgirl April 30 2009, 00:47:25 UTC

The first part... I feel the same way... What's me and what's bipolar? Am I just lazy? Stupid? Pathetic? Or is it my disorder? Ugh...

sublime_groove April 30 2009, 02:09:45 UTC

Is the whole more sensitive to light thing confirmed? I've always had sleep problems but melatonin never worked. For the comment about finding meds I'm on Lamictal and wellbutrin and it works great for me but the thing with meds is that everyone's different and you can't recomend things...so annoying.

And I'm incredibly obsessive. That's actually a symptom of mania. For me habits or a daily ritual is very calming. Like every night I meditate even if it's just for 10 minutes and take a shower.

petulant May 1 2009, 01:26:30 UTC

Do you have a link for the study about the light therapy asterisk? I've always been annoyed by any extra light in the room when I'm trying to sleep, but I never thought it could be connected to the bipolar. I'd love to read more.

I hope this helps! athenagrace May 1 2009, 12:33:25 UTC

These mostly have to do with melatonin sensitivity, but I can get you more information on light/dark therapy if you want :)

http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v21/n3/full/1395342a.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16769177?ordinalpos=17&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17637502?ordinalpos=9&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum