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Saturday, July, 19, 2008

People Who Have Been Through Bipolar Disorder

Scalded
posted 09/26/2007, comments (7)

Two days before he moved out on our family, we were buying furniture and dishes.

Help!  I am reading too much that sounds like us.  He was so charming, beautiful, fun, participatory and the best potential stepfather life has served up. Slowly, he began disappearing for days at a time...saying I had burned him.  He wouldn't answer calls.  He would ship a small but completely non-feeling communication... Read moreChevron
nurz
posted 08/16/2007, comments (2)

Bipolar-hypomanic

I knew there was something wrong for 12 years.  I even told the doctor I was Bipolar!  Do doctors ever believe what the patient says?  I have been stable since '87 with Lithium.  Two years ago I was diagnosed with hypomania.  Now I am on  Zyprexa for that. I have been told that Zyprexa causes Diabetes... Read moreChevron
stephanie
posted 07/21/2007, comments (3)

Help Me Understand

How do you deal with bipolar? I've only known for 4 years now, but I've only been on meds since 2005.I'm 30, my husband is 28 he and I have had very troubling childhoods,so this is very hard for us to deal with, but we love each other very much.We have been together since 1998,Nobody else in my close family understands it either can... Read moreChevron
Starlett Barham

Starlett Barham

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posted 05/15/2007, comments (0)

Everybody needs a hand up sometime's

Living with a mental illness does not mean we are limited as to what we can do, how far we can reach, and it never means we have to give up our dreams. For me, it was a training class I attended, and a few of the women in that class showed me great support, at a time when I just wanted to die. If only we all knew that within ourselves we have the... Read moreChevron
OliviaAnne
posted 05/15/2007, comments (0)

Mellaril cured me

I was not a classic case of bipolar, but for me Mellaril was the cure, as described in my profile.

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