Posted 9/4/2011 1:48 PM (GMT 0)
Hi.. I hope that I will be able to be of some help here since I have had this condition for more than 30 years. Have dealt with it on meds, off meds, compliant, resistant, grateful, resentful.. you name it. Have been hospitalized three times and white knuckled it off meds for three years. Since it was the manias that put me into the hospital, I was always medicated for that and so lived with the depressions. Now I am really suffering with that and determined not to anymore and so going to take that in hand.
I can really empathize with those of you who have just been diagnosed and those who are dealing with a partner.. this is a very hard condition to accept and sometimes it seems even harder on the others. I always admire BPs who manage to keep it together with a family .. a partner and children. I could never have children.. thought it was a real curse at the time but in retrospect, it was a blessing for me.
anyway, glad to be here.