Everything Has Its Season

Wow, Sue, this was a bit of a shock, you have been the face of the DBSA for so long but I truly understand why your going.  You will be so missed but i know deep you are going to do more good for all of us in your new job.  To have you going to bat for us is with out a doubt will give us the VOICE we all need in the wolrd of better health care that will fit our needs.  I wish you all the best ans thank you for all your hard work with the DBSA and Thank you for all the hard work you are going to do for in the future.

You e-mail Friend, and peer,

Chato B Stewart

p.s.  i can't wait for your "tell All book"  :)  O.K, maybe you don't have a tell all book yet, but one can hope... :)

I just read the lyrics to the song you've been humming and I'd really love to hear it. Do you know who sings it?  I'd like to try and download it from i-Tunes.

I am new to this site...and Bipolar too for that matter. I was diagnosed on 5th September, but I'm still struggling to accept that the doctors/counsellors are right. Some days I agree with them, but most days I think they're full of S***. Sorry, but that's how I feel. I've been in what they call a Manic/Mixed episode for 11 weeks now and the medication they put me on is doing absolutely nothing for me. My doctor had me on 2000mg of Lithium/day and I ended up with Lithium poisoning, so she has cut it back to 1000mg/day. I am also on Seroquel 200-300mg at night and all that does is help me sleep. My thoughts & behaviours are still the same as before I started taking anything!

 I also have major head pain (way beyond a migraine) and it has been like that for 8 days now. Panadeine Forte was like having lollies so my doctor gave me Endone. She prescribed 2 tabs twice a day, but I had to have 4 and even then it only slightly took the edge off...for 1 day! I went back to my doc the next day and she prescribed Oxycontin 20mg and said to take 1-2 tabs twice a day. Taking 2 took the edge off for two days, but today I have had to have 4, which equates to 80mg and I can still feel it, but I can actually look at things without having to hold my head.

I had a CT scan on Friday and go back for the results tomorrow (Monday 22nd September).

Do you know anyone else with Bipolar who gets head pain like I do?

Given your relationship and interest in mental illness, we thought that you might be interested in a campaign recently launched by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Neurosciences Department.

Did you know that, in Canada:

§ Nearly one in three people will be affected by a mental illness in their lifetime?

§ Almost 46% think people use the term mental illness as an excuse for bad behaviour?

§ One in four are fearful of being around those who suffer from serious mental illness?

This October, help Sunnybrook Foundation and Presenting Partner, Manulife Financial confront the stigma of mental illness and raise funds to support mental health research and care.

Sue...All the best to you in your new endeavors.  I'm sure you will continue to make a difference for all of us.

We should all carry a copy of the lyrics from "Corner of the Sky" in our purses and wallets.  Thanks for sharing it with us.

Judy

If people believe hypomania makes people truly out of control that gives justification to all the people out there that would strip us of our civil rights and drug us up against our will in our homes as well as in hospitals.

<a href="http://www.imedix.com/bipolar">Bipolar Support Group</a>

The houston website site is not working and well when you really need to find a meeting can be quite frustrating. Just FYI

I find myself too depressed these days to sing while i'm in my car like I used to.  I wonder why can't I just let it go.  Removing a vice grip that is depression can be very hard at times and mine has lasted over a month.  I hurt inside because I can't sing to my children, I can't sing in the car and even when I listen to music online while surfing I can't push myself to fully enjoy it.  I may cry or smile when I hear a song I like, but I feel like I have lost who I'm.  I think "what is wrong with me, what happened to the vivatious girl I was?"  The answers are never simple and I'm at the taking it minute by minute.  In the past month I was committed, my ex mother in law called CPS on me because I wouldn't tell her where I was, but that I was ill, I got into a car accident, my mother kicked me out of my home, my fiance's mother and father took me in, but the chaos bothers my future mother-in-law and myself cause we have a mentally and physically disabled child, a bipolar ADHD 11 year old and my quiet yet upset daughter who is holding in all of her pain and loss from being pulled out of her school and having to go from an only child to a sister of two.  She sufferes the most because my future mother-in-law does everything for her grandaughter, and thinks that we should be nicer to her but all the other children have free reighn to be disciplined.  I don't know what to do.  So again, I don't find solice in music, which has been my life line for so long.  I'm walking on eggshells because my mentally ill mother taught me that if i'm not doing something for her then I'm worthless.  I just don't know how to live anymore.  I'm sick of this and I have learned my lesson about suicide in the past, but I need people to talk to and someone to share their story with me.  I feel like i'm in a rut.  I'm litterally loosing my mind!  Thank you for letting me post this and I hope someone out there can lend a helping hand to help my recovery from this unstable and scary disease.  Namaste.