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By ppprmntpatty Monday, April 09, 2007

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I can sit for five minutes feeling stumped about a title.

I am feeling a lot better physically and mentally, but in the evenings and late night I get awfully creeped out for no reason. I wish this would stop. Any handy ideas?

Also, I think I may be dealing with an addiction and would love to hear some positive words about how I need to get a grip and quit. Yuck.

Birthday this week! Just about done with this semester. Feels nice to be feeling like myself again. Is this good or bad? (How different should I feel?) It seems like with the number of pills I cram down my throat I would be slightly different. ?

coming along by thirds

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Bob Brandt

4/14/07 5:40pm

I manage it. I deal with it. I get on with my life. You can too!

Bi-Polar is a disease that can be managed. Key factors for my successful management are medication (I'm still hoping to manage w/o them some day), EXERCISE is vital (at least 3 to 4 days per week 20 - 30 minutes cardio and light weight resitance), active reprogramming of my thinking, nutritional supplementation, paying attention to my dietary triggers, and getting enough sunlight.

My medication mix is Concerta 18mg, Lamictal 200mg & Stratera 12 mg per day. Mixed med therapy seems to have been the best approach for me. I started with Lithium many years ago, but that clouded my thinking. After that I was on a 4 year journey until I arrived at this mix of meds.

I exercise a minimum of 3 days per week (try to do 4 days). I swim laps 30 to 40 minutes, or do light weight resistance training followed by cardio exercise.

I work to reprogram my thinking with positive affirmations, reading inspirational books, and watching inspirational movies. A good resource I’ve found to retrain my thinking is listening to couple audio CD's I found at www.thinkrightnow.com while in the car or while sleeping at night.

I have found EPA (fish oil)and B12 to be helpful along with some other nutritional supplements as well.

Pay attention to what you eat and what triggers your depression. One of my biggest triggers is eggs. I know I will be down for at least 24 hours after eating them and sometimes I don’t mind and eat them anyway. It’s a choice. Know what your food triggers are and deal with them appropriately.

My Bi-polar is further complicated with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder). So another important piece of the puzzle for me is sunlight. I go to the tanning booth on average 1 day per week, never more than 2 weeks without.

My BiPolar Management Program In Summary:

1) Medication experimentation (with doctors help) until I got it right.

2) EXERCISE, EXERCISE, EXERCISE.

3) Retrain my thinking. http://www.thinkrightnow.com

4) Nutritional supplementation.

5) Pay attention to my dietary triggers.

6) When necessary, getting sunlight.

Feel free to correspond with me anytime. I'm happy to
help in any way I can.

Bob Brandt
Yahoo IM: bobbrandtchicago
bbrandt1612@comcast.net

http://2-b.us/?i=109681/BiPolarConnect.com

westwind96

4/14/07 10:52pm

Sort of like you, I frequently get feelings where I just feel like something bad is going to happen to me or that I am going to spin out of control even if I am doing fine. It's probably heightened anxiety connected to some of my memories, but I've had a hard time breaking out of them.

I don't know the details or the severity of your addiction or abuse. These patterns can be broken, and it may be easier than you think after the initial withdrawal and adjustment period. If you're going to quit "on your own", I recommend having supportive people around you that you can reach out to and lots of things to do to keep you busy rather than (doing whatever applies). Being properly treated for your bipolar is important to beating the abuse/addiction in the long run. As for the available help, unfortunately a lot of it isn't oriented towards people who are also struggling with mental illness. Twelve step programs, while often recommended or even forced on people, are not for everyone, and statistically are no more successful than quitting yourself.

lostintime

4/19/07 9:11am

the nite time is the worse for me.I cant put my finger on it,creeped out yes dont know why,freaked out too sometimes, just like the other comment I too feel like something bad is going to happen knowing quite well that nothing is going to happen.As far as your addiction to ??? please take measures to have support around you,Dont go it alone! If you would like to chat send me a message or post.

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