Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Heather
  • Heather
  • Location: ID, United States
  • Gender: Female
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HEALTH INTERESTS:

Bipolar disorder,  ADHD symptoms,  treatment,  advice,  help,  discussions,  family and kid advice,  etc.

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ABOUT ME:

I'm 32 and am currently a stay at home mom with 3 kids ages 3, 6 and 8. I'm happily married to a terrific, understanding, compassionate and sexy man for 9 years. I've been diagnosed with ADHD since I was 17 by a family friend psychiatrist. Since then, I've had numerous "episodes" in the form of severe depression that forever had me on antidepressants. 3 years ago, I had one and saw a different doctor...the 5th one. She nailed it with Bipolar and I've been better since. HOWEVER, I took the medications (Lamictal, Lithium, Paxil, Atavan and Adderall (for adhd) for the last 3 years and never cared to look into what exactly Bipolar meant or how I could help myself until my hubby said something to me this last January. He stated "Heather, your moods are like your manic or something! I can't keep up with you anymore!" That was it. It was the lightbulb! I admitted to having it and began researching. My mom has been diagnosed since I was young and i think I was just ashamed of having what she had...something I loathed of her and her mood swings, depression and alcoholism.

I started jounaling here at home to get an idea of how I was feeling on a daily basis to see if I could determine when a Manic swing would hit. Those are the worst for me. I realize they've been (or at least I hope they've been) the cause of a great deal of financial damage and dishonest sexual behavior. Much of the same things I did for years in college, undiagnosed an unmedicated, too. I'm careful not to pin the blame on my Manic episodes, though. I don't want to discount my own choices and bad ones at that. Just trying to figure out what the hell is going on in my noggin so I can stop the bad behavior before I get into serious trouble.

Any comments, advice, shared experiences are welcome!!!

Heather

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