The Bipolar Support Thread

[BippityBoppity87]

Hi everyone Just thought I'd start a shiny new thread for anyone who is suffering from bipolar disorder.

Hope everyone is ok!

My list of symptoms I have or have had

Mania
Depression
Anxiety
Paranoid
Bizarre delusions
Visual hallucinations
Hearing voices (only when stressed)
Eating disorders
Self harming
Flatness

I am not anymore self harming or have eating disorder.

Diagnosis I have had

General anxiety
Bpd x2
Bipolar x 2
Schizoaffective
Narcissistic personality disorder with bpd tendencies

I hope you're feeling a bit better @BippityBoppity87

Do you have a crisis number you can call st the weekend? It might be worth giving them a call if you feel any worse.

Iv Bipolar two and I'm not having a very good patch mood wise laugh of the matter is last week discharged from mental health team for doing well :(

Hey @littlemissella hope you’re ok. How are you feeling how?

Hi bippity bopperty I am having a bit of a better day today. Iv just had a very stressful six months and I think it's coming out now :( how are you x

I'm on sertraline lamotrigine quetiapine xx

I’m ok @littlemissella Just shuddering from good old depression again.

The last 4 days were really weird. Now I practically live off coffee and caffeine. I know what triggered what I think was an episode due to extreme stress. But I think I had a mixed episode that last about 4 days. I don’t know much about it but this is how I felt.

Hyped up, wired, laughing one minute, bursting into tears the next.
Shaky
Anxiety through the roof
Racing and intrusive thoughts
Smoking like a trooper
Agitated
Pacing

Was that a mixed episode?

Suffering not shuddering.

I was also exhausted, but couldn’t sleep.

I'm feeling really paranoid. I really need to shake the feeling before I go to a christening on my own on Sunday.

@tierraJ I hope you're feeling better today and are able to go to the christening tomorrow.

I'm around if you want to talk

Hi I feel a bit better thanks, got to go to the christening as I'm godmother to be... So I'm going to go to the after party but just stay for an hour or so, long enough to be polite but not so long I feel awkward hopefully.

It's at work I was feeling more paranoid. I'm back at work on Monday so I've got to practice talking myself out of the paranoid feelings.

I hope you can enjoy the christening, good idea to stay for an hour or so then make your escape. Have a lovely day!

I hope everyone else is well!

Hey everyone. So I had my psych appointment today and he said I was hypomanic, brought on by going to London, surviving on very little sleep and stopping my aripiprazole.

I’ve now been put on risperidone and to see him in two weeks time. If that doesn’t work, I’ll be put on lithium.

It was bad. I joined tinder lack of sleep, drank a lot of gin, stopped my meds and basically was asking guys left right and centre if they fancied a shag.

But anyway! That’s my life in a nutshell right now! Oh and I’ve broken up with my dp. I swear I could write a book

Oh and I asked about the bpd thing and he said no I don’t. Definitely bipolar. Bipolar type 2 to be exact.

Hope everyone is ok!

Hi everyone, I wondered if I could ask your opinion. I am bipolar type 2. On quite a few meds and see my psych every month. I have just been offered a new job. And with it came a delightful occupational health questionnaire with questions about, yes you've guessed it, mental health. I really do not want to have to declare my state of mind. I am three or so weeks into a steady mood having been in a very depressed state.

I don't know what to do. I don't have to declare I'm asthmatic, which I am. I just don't trust the confidentiality of the report. What would you do?

I went to the christening, had fun & didn't get paranoid luckily.

Bippitty sounds like a lots been going on!!

Stuffragette maybe admit to having depression (as that's really common) but don't say bipolar? Not sure. Depends where the job is. If it's public sector or a company with really strict rules against discrimination you'll be fine.

@Stuffragette I wouldn't declare it but that's just because I've read of so many times where it changes things. That's just me though.

@tierraJ glad you enjoyed the christening, I feel like I make a huge achievement if I attend anything like that. I have s wedding in August which will mean a few night away from home. I feel okay about it just now but nearer the time who knows.

@BippityBoppity87 what a time you've been having! I hope the new meds work and if not lithium isn't too bad it just takes a while to get into your system.

Yeah I’ve calmed down a bit now. I think my London trip triggered an episode and made me go a bit loopy and the lack of sleep. Plus I took a lot of benzos to calm down, then when I ran out I shot up. It was ridiculous, felt like I was on drugs. Bouncing around Lidl yesterday, thought I had taken speed

I'm ashamed to say I'm a tiny bit envious I'm sick of this bla feeling. I sat and wrote how bipolar affects me on a daily basis. I've got citizens advice coming out on Friday. I took 7 Valium last week I was buzzing off them.

It was my own fault, I stopped taking my aripiprazole as it was making me feel a bit flat, and I thought its only a low dose, I’ll be fine. I was wrong! Not doing that again

Hey how is everyone doing?

Got a letter today regarding my pip claim. They have written to inform me that they have contacted my psychiatrist, gp and cpn for further information regarding my health conditions. If they are satisfied with the information, I may not need a face to face consultation.

Is this just a standard procedure letter, or is this good news?

That's just standard procedure I think. I got the same letter then I heard a week after that, that I had to attend a face to face assessment.

I had citizens advice out yesterday filling in my ESAForm so that will be in the post. I wrote a 3 page account of how it affects me daily and enclosed my psychiatrists letter. So it's just a matter of wait and see now.

Ugh it makes me feel sick.

Oh gosh, I don’t know if I could handle a face to face assessment.

I can imagine. I’m feeling like that now. My life is a mess right now. I feel like I’m one breakdown from being on the Jeremy Kyle show.

Aw that's sad bippity I hope things calm down for you. I remember feeling like that when I was going through some relationship shit but it's over now and life has calmed down.

You might not need a face to face if PIP get enough information from your doctors/psychiatrist

Hopefully. One things for sure, I’m not stopping my antipsychotic again! Think I might finally be on the right combination of meds.

That's good. It just goes to show you don't realise what your mind if going to be like without meds. It's quite scary isn't it?

Are you coping okay without your partner?