Information and opinions on Bipolar from Tabby at BipolarConnect.com. The HealthCentral Network, Inc. (www.HealthCentral.com) is one of the top health destinations on the Web, with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health Web properties. http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780 http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/rss self application/xml en-us 15 120 19 http://www.healthcentral.com/images/hc_logo_sm.gif http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780 http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/93383/returning-hiatus Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:27:39 -0500 Tabby I've been unemployed since this past New Year's Eve.  I was laid off from a administrative position at yet another local MH agency in a city some traveling distance from me.  I was not entirely upset, at the time, regarding the layoff.  In fact, I was quite relieved.   See, I was driving 85 miles per day.  On top of that, the agency was topsy turvy with cuts in benefits, cuts in reimbursement, cuts in services... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/93383/returning-hiatus http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/79088/bipolar-finally Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:36:14 -0400 Tabby New Year's Eve 2008 I was laid off from a job I had just obtained exactly 4 months prior.  While saddened over losing the job, I was also relieved because I despised it and despised having to drive the near hour to and from each day to do it.  So, though sad of being laid off again (2nd in 2 years & from same agency), I so needed a mental break.  I was undergoing a 2nd severe depressive episode in 4 months.   Since... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/79088/bipolar-finally http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/77410/jerry-thoughts-dbt Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:37:47 -0400 Tabby We now know you both are advocates of CBT and we both know your thoughts and feelings regarding CBT's therapeutic uses.  So, please tell what your thoughts and feelings are regarding DBT for those with the Bipolar mind.   In that DBT incorporates some of what CBT does, along with other therapeutic techniques (in that it is kinda a blend) and many with Bipolar are taking up DBT groups as a form of therapy support... just wondering... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/77410/jerry-thoughts-dbt http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/75504/don-worry-fine Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:52:12 -0400 Tabby "Don't worry about me, I'm fine." says the woman in great emotional and mental pain.    "I'm okay, everything's good here.  Now what is you are wanting to talk about?  You are having problems with what or who now?  Sure, I'm listening... No, really it's okay.  You can talk to me.  What's the matter?"   "Now what it is you need me to do?... Sure, okay I can do that and is there anything else you... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/75504/don-worry-fine http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/48598/shareposting Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:13:35 -0500 Tabby This will be my last Sharepost & quite possibly, my last visit to the site.   I'm not kidding here.  While some will no doubt jump for joy by this news, I am disheartened by it.  The reason is very simple; the direction of the Shareposts.   I've been on this website under "Tabby" and another moniker since March of 06.  This was before "Shareposts" when we only had the Forum, which by the way is still here but I... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/48598/shareposting http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/39187/acknowledge Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:22:14 -0400 Tabby I'm 41 and will be 42 in a few months.  I've worked since I was about 9 years old on my family's commercial produce farm.  As a family, we'd work long hot hours over several acres of produce, to then go 3 days a week to differing Farmer's Markets to sell.  I'd have to go, market, sell, display, exchange monies, customer service to their vehicles the bags and baskets of vegatables they had bought.  So, I've worked a long... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/39187/acknowledge http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/35958/cry-won Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:57:30 -0400 Tabby A funny thing happened yesterday with my niece at a local KFC.  Well, actually it wasn't funny.   It was horrendously humid where we are yesterday and we had been out to our local Wal Mart for Back to School shopping.  After leaving one of the thousands of the world's largest private retailer's establishments, we (family & I) thought to stop in for a bite to eat.  So, the local KFC it was.   Well, no sooner had... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/35958/cry-won http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/35110/money-scam-site Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:41:41 -0400 Tabby Broadway Girl noted this just recently and I received the same message myself in my box here on this site.  It is what is commonly known as the "Nigerian Scam" or other similar types of scams where they ask for a small investment of money to help them move larger amounts of money out of their foreign country or something similar.   This message is going into the member's message boxes.  Mine then flagged my personal email... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/35110/money-scam-site http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/32003/update-tabby-life Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:25:24 -0400 Tabby Just an update, that's all. I've been trying slowly to return, you know "low and slow" to get back but, it's been difficult.  I've been cycling (not the 2 wheel kind), mixing (episodes), and well.. hanging on the rope with my teeth clenched for a while.   That's not to say I haven't had an "up" period.  I had a go between hypomania and mania several weeks ago, no mixers, pure "up" (whilst on Lithium).  It... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/32003/update-tabby-life http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/29185/update-things Wed, 28 May 2008 17:09:39 -0400 Tabby I've been away a bit. Let's see... my stepfather passed on April 29th which has brought back so many emotional, conflictual, unresolved, past memories & images and so my anxiety attacks, as well as panic, have increased.   My job is still barely turning and because of the illness, my injuries from my car wreck a year ago, my anxiety, and the death of stepparent... my job is not turning well.  I've missed quite a bit of time,... http://www.healthcentral.com/bipolar/c/77780/29185/update-things