Questions for people who have bipolar?!
Question: 1. Are you happy most of the time?
2. When are you the most happy, winter summer spring?
3. Do you dwell on the fact you have the disorder?
4. What kind of work do you do, is it stressful?
5. Do you have any problems feeling you belong?
6. How is your relationships with your spouse and children if any?
7. Do you choose to take medication?
I appreciate any answers, I myself am bipolar, and just havent met anyone or spoken with others?
Answers: 1. Are you happy most of the time?
2. When are you the most happy, winter summer spring?
3. Do you dwell on the fact you have the disorder?
4. What kind of work do you do, is it stressful?
5. Do you have any problems feeling you belong?
6. How is your relationships with your spouse and children if any?
7. Do you choose to take medication?
I appreciate any answers, I myself am bipolar, and just havent met anyone or spoken with others?
Well yes I am and so is my mom. I dont know sometimes if I am or if it's just her that has made me this way. But here let me answer your questions and if you need to talk to anyone then you can email me anytime for more info.
1. When your not on anything then no your actually not very happy most of the time. Sometimes you get these burst of high energy and GREAT mood, you've never felt better, your really hyper and laugh a lot and later that day, or the next you are at an all time low, and your more unhappy because you want to feel like you did before. You switch from angry to an uncontrollable crying, people will ask what is wrong and you'll make up something to tell them but honestly deep down you dont really know what's making you feel like this.
2. There is no time you are most happy, with my exsperience you switch day to day, sometimes in the same day whether it's summer winter or spring. BUT I have heared that the more you are in the sun the more vitamon D you get which helps people feel happy, so that's probably why people do feel worst in the winter or people who are always stuck inside. So actually I would say spring in summer would be happiest but it is also very tricky.
3. Yes you dwell you want to be normal, you feel like you are a crazy person, you have a hard time with relationships and if you are ashamed of the disorder you dont tell people and its this deep thing you keep inside, and people who dont have it and you tell them they judge you, they treat you and look at you differently either with pitty, or fear. You dwell on wanting to be normal, not having to take a medicin that will make you feel weird and when your not being so moody.
4. Well I am a stay at home mom right now, but my mom she is a bartender, she DID work in the office but the disorder got the best of her, she blew up at people in the office and somedays really depressed and eventually got fired for her blow ups. ANd now she is self medicating with alchohol which ISN'T good but that's why she works in a bar, a biker bar with unstable people like her, where she feels confortable. She wont admit this but she feels better about herself around drunks who make her feel less crazy. She also drinks too nowand doesn't feel bad about it because all her new associates do too.
5. You have a lot of problems feeling you belong. Your mind is so caotic that you attract the same type of people, some with the same problem, or people who are normal you already want to be just like them so you envy them and hid your true self. You dont want to hang out with unstable people because you dont want to be unstable yourself, but you dont want to hang out with stable people because they dont understand you.
6. Well me and my moms relationship was horrible, because she wout explode at me all the time, made me feel insecure, because I didn't understand what was wrong with her and thought her behavior was because of me. One day her super sweet side woudl make me love her so much, then when she was sad I wanted to make her feel better and stopped worrying about me, and then when she was mad and would hit me or tear me down I felt worthless and became part of her cycle of bad behavior.
And with boyfriends things have been horrible because either they were syco or they thought I was when I wasn't on medicin.
7. I choose to now, because I have exsperienced a mom who choose not to, I didn't want to put my son through that. Sometimes if I couldn't feel up a medication I would be emotional, I would be crying around him or impatient with him, and I dont like that. So I make SURE I take it like I am suppose to even with the side effects. But back before I was pregnant and had my son, I enjoyed that high of being super happy to much that I wouldn't take the pills like I was suppose to.
The longer you have this then you start to recongnize when you aren't acting normal, when you feel your blood boil you learn you need to be alone or go for a walk or talk to someone about it before you explode or take a bubble bath. Taking medicin is a choice but dont become in denile that you do have a problem, accept that you do and work with it whatever makes you feel best. My best is taking my medicin, taking care of myself. But you could keep a journal and write down your different emotions of the day then bring it to your doctor and tell them. They will give you a medicin or a plan to make you feel better.
I also have bp and Iam taking lamictal and still not better I have my real bad days I want to die but to afraid to do it and dont want to hurt anyone and then I have my bad days and never good days .
1) no
2) spring
3) yes
4) teacher, yes
5) yes
6) not so good
7) yes