Any fellow Bipolar peeps here?

[JayBot2005]

We really got a raw deal. This disorder makes you either want to kill yourself or take over the country. Right now I'm trying to trigger a manic episode so that I can get out of this hellhole of a suicidal depression. How are you fellow "polar bears" doing?

 

[Darkover]

alll the Mental illness make you want to kill yourself, Schizophrenia,Psychosis,Post-traumatic stress disorder,Paranoia,Obsessive compulsive disorder,Eating disorders,Dissociation and dissociative disorders,Depression,Bipolar affective disorder,Anxiety disorders.

everybody wants to rule the world

 

[Beeper]

We really got a raw deal. This disorder makes you either want to kill yourself or take over the country. Right now I'm trying to trigger a manic episode so that I can get out of this hellhole of a suicidal depression. How are you fellow "polar bears" doing?

Bipolar I here. It is definitely a raw deal. I'm ready to fold and ask for a reshuffle.

This year has been brutal. Started off with a severe manic episode, and now the deepest depression.

What method(s) are you using to trigger a manic episode?

 

[Brayu]

alll the Mental illness make you want to kill yourself, Schizophrenia,Psychosis,Post-traumatic stress disorder,Paranoia,Obsessive compulsive disorder,Eating disorders,Dissociation and dissociative disorders,Depression,Bipolar affective disorder,Anxiety disorders.

everybody wants to rule the world

However the suicide rates of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are ridiculously higher... Only those who know the roller coaster know!

 

[Darkover]

However the suicide rates of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are ridiculously higher... Only those who know the roller coaster know!

The findings show anorexia to be the most deadly psychiatric diagnosis. The anorexia mortality rate of 5.86 is dramatically higher than: Schizophrenia, which increases death risk 2.8-fold in males and 2.5-fold in females.
According to many studies and statistics, the deadliest mental disorders are eating disorders. Eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, and their atypical counterparts) have become the most dangerous mental health disorders in America and worldwide.

 

[Brayu]

We really got a raw deal. This disorder makes you either want to kill yourself or take over the country. Right now I'm trying to trigger a manic episode so that I can get out of this hellhole of a suicidal depression. How are you fellow "polar bears" doing?

Bipolar II

The findings show anorexia to be the most deadly psychiatric diagnosis. The anorexia mortality rate of 5.86 is dramatically higher than: Schizophrenia, which increases death risk 2.8-fold in males and 2.5-fold in females.
According to many studies and statistics, the deadliest mental disorders are eating disorders. Eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, and their atypical counterparts) have become the most dangerous mental health disorders in America and worldwide.

My friend... when it comes only to suicide, in bipolar disorder you have something like 15% incidence.

Not to mention that bipolar disorder has a degenerative (neurological) potential and is very associated with heart problems (that's why we live on average 10 years less, even if we accept that hell).

All diseases are serious, but you say it like it's very normal to have mania or hypomania... "everybody wants to rule the world"... really? talk more about...

 

[NearlyIrrelevantCake]

Bipolar II with ultradian cycling here.

 

[Darkover]

everybody wants to rule the world"... really? talk more about.

Everyone wants to be a God, to be immortal, to do practically anything he wished,to have complete knowledge, to have practically anything ,to live out our imagination fantasies to go on amazing adventure. never feel any pain suffering loss.

 

[Brayu]

Everyone wants to be a God, to be immortal, to do practically anything he wished,to have complete knowledge, to have practically anything ,to live out our imagination fantasies to go on amazing adventure. never feel any pain suffering loss.

And do you think the euphoria of bipolar disorder comes down to that? to want?

Hasn't it crossed your mind that we can believe and act like it's all of this in a much more impulsive way than just "dreaming"?

I can't believe I'm reading this, and I don't think I can teach you anything google can't do for you, sorry...

 

[Darkover]

everyone wants to live in eternal bliss

 

[Brayu]

everyone wants to live in eternal bliss

You wouldn't want to live in a euphoria (just like you don't like to be depressed).

Euphoria is not like being stable... if euphoria were commonplace, "normal" people wouldn't resort to using drugs! How many times have you been mistaken for a junkie for being in a manic phase? Do you know why? Because being in a situation like that is not normal, much less healthy, because it is not the contact with the real!!!

 

[Darkover]

who wouldn't want to be in love forever in a state of complete happiness

 

[Brayu]

And in all honesty... I think it's disrespectful to romanticize or even relativize the experience of people who suffer so much... In fact, few diseases in the world are as serious as bipolarity, it's not like wanting to be in eternal ecstasy... no we are druggies!
But this "happiness" doesn't exist forever... It doesn't hold up in the real world. If you live like a super hero for two weeks at all, when you get depressed again the bill will be pretty heavy (if you survive the euphoria adventure of course)... If it was so good to be euphoric everyone would live to illicit drug base!

The problem is that reality comes heavy later... If that's not enough to figure out what the "roller coaster" is then I don't know how to help.

A curiosity for everyone is that Lithium is a substance that has been used for thousands of years as a mood stabilizer. It wasn't something the modern pharmaceutical industry invented "out of the blue".

 

[Bone]

"Lithium was first used in the 19th century as a treatment for gout..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_(medication)#History

 

[Brayu]

"Lithium was first used in the 19th century as a treatment for gout..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_(medication)#History

I refer to Lithium as a therapeutic substance, not packaged pills of course...

A Return to Lithium: Psychiatry's First Miracle Drug

One of psychiatry's oldest drugs, lithium may be making a comeback.

www.psychologytoday.com

 

[Bone]

I refer to Lithium as a therapeutic substance, not packaged pills of course...

A Return to Lithium: Psychiatry's First Miracle Drug

One of psychiatry's oldest drugs, lithium may be making a comeback.

www.psychologytoday.com

Thanks for teaching me my bad~

 

[ketchup sandwich]

I, too, am trying to knock myself into mania. Anything beats the lows.. I'd much rather believe I have Dr. Manhattan-like powers and fantasize about becoming leader of the earth. At least I make money when I think I'm God

 

[Apathy's Girl]

Hope you can figure out how to induce a manic episode. I dread them, my manic phases are always accompanied by acute paranoia. I always have some level of paranoia but when manic I can barely leave the house.

 

[saintedwinter]

Diagnosed Bipolar 1 at the beginning of this year. Mania was the best feeling of my life and now I've just been stuck in the depression in a dysfunctional state.

 

[Ch92921]

Yep!

 

[Ch92921]

However the suicide rates of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are ridiculously higher... Only those who know the roller coaster know!

Yeah, because during mania you could get the power to ctb.

 

[Not Sure]

Actually I think a mixed episode would be more dangerous. Mania makes you not want to ctb anymore...

 

[Ch92921]

Actually I think a mixed episode would be more dangerous. Mania makes you not want to ctb anymore...

No the transition between depression and mania.

 

[Not Sure]

I am pretty close to that phase myself and pretty scared of it.

 

[Elegy]

How the hell would I know what I am. I'm poor and uninsured. I can't afford proper in-depth diagnosis or treatment. I'm gonna self-diagnose instead, go out on a limb and say, I am, Bipolar Schizoaffective Borderline Personality Disorder and chronic 40+ year alcoholic. What else can explain why I slashed myself with a knife 100 times and was outside on the lawn, on all-fours, barking at my neighbor's dog through the fence, bleeding profusely, and police were summoned to my address, for a wellness check. And not for the first time. I am, no stranger to police.

 

[Sadness20]

I'm diagnosed with emotionally instable personality. I don't have really high highs. I just have days when I am okay and days when I want to die so bad that I try to commit suicide.

 

[dustyfurcollector]

You wouldn't want to live in a euphoria (just like you don't like to be depressed).

Euphoria is not like being stable... if euphoria were commonplace, "normal" people wouldn't resort to using drugs! How many times have you been mistaken for a junkie for being in a manic phase? Do you know why? Because being in a situation like that is not normal, much less healthy, because it is not the contact with the real!!!

This beautifully states my mania. And explaining it to others. You've done that very well

How the hell would I know what I am. I'm poor and uninsured. I can't afford proper in-depth diagnosis or treatment. I'm gonna self-diagnose instead, go out on a limb and say, I am, Bipolar Schizoaffective Borderline Personality Disorder and chronic 40+ year alcoholic. What else can explain why I slashed myself with a knife 100 times and was outside on the lawn, on all-fours, barking at my neighbor's dog through the fence, bleeding profusely, and police were summoned to my address, for a wellness check. And not for the first time. I am, no stranger to police.

Damn. I'm bipolar and have tried to kill myself many many times and failed and I have never been as manic as that. Mad respect for recovering from that. Peace

 

[lost_ally]

We really got a raw deal. This disorder makes you either want to kill yourself or take over the country. Right now I'm trying to trigger a manic episode so that I can get out of this hellhole of a suicidal depression. How are you fellow "polar bears" doing?

You said it.
In September I believed I could save the world between the 7th and the 10th. It was horrible that I didn't as I was so sure I could.
Now I'm deep in the dark spiral.

 

[needed_]

Actually I think a mixed episode would be more dangerous. Mania makes you not want to ctb anymore...

yes if I remember correctly then statistically mixed episodes are the episodes with the highest suicide rate. makes sense because you are very agitated and at the same time very depressed. I have bipolar 1 with mostly mixed episodes and it is hell

 

[hopelessgirl]

We really got a raw deal. This disorder makes you either want to kill yourself or take over the country. Right now I'm trying to trigger a manic episode so that I can get out of this hellhole of a suicidal depression. How are you fellow "polar bears" doing?

Helloo!! I'm in a deep depression over here ;-)