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posted 10/30/2009, comments (18)

Question of the Week - Understanding vs Responsibility

This installment has no easy answers, much less right ones or wrong ones. It's all about what level of understanding you expect to receive from people close to you and those you face in the wider world.Question: How much allowance, if any, should those close to you make for your illness-related behavior? Should your colleagues at work and others... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/29/2009, comments (0)

Crapola!

This will teach me to read all the post before posting myself. It's just that I got ticked off at one of the questions I read...and acted without thinking I guess. Is my Bipolar showing?? Just a little I think. I still stand by what I wrote...I think I wrote alot of good advice. But my timing was way off...and for this I do sincerely beg... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/29/2009, comment (1)

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Maybe someone can help me understand something. What is it with labeling people with Bipolar because someone acted a certain way. I'm tired of hearing...so and so must be Bipolar...or does...so and so have Bipolar because they did this. We have enough on our plates for being Bipolar and dealing with it on a daily... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/27/2009, comments (27)

Reducing the Costs of Mania

It may be something you said, or something you did, but nearly everyone who experiences hypomania or mania has a story or two about the darker side. Grand plans, risky investments, financial donations, hurtful comments, affairs, turning to drink, aggression, these are just a few of the possibilities. Such indiscretions may be minor or they may... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/27/2009, comments (2)

I have nothing have nothing, not now i misscarried my twins.

Yesterday my whole world was destroyed and i am not sure how i am ever going to get over it. I just had this feeling that something wasn't right 2 weeks ago but when i went to the hospital they told me that i was fine, they gave me an ultrasound and there on the screen was not 1 but 2 babys. I was so relived and happy that all was well although a... Read more Chevron

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