I have a bipolar disorder because...?

Oh NiteScribe -- this is a great idea. You know there are a couple of funnies like this in the a-p forum --"You know you have an anxiety disorder when..." and "You know you have OCD when..." (I have had a lot of fun reading and adding to both threads!!). -- They've been really popular and I bet this one will be too. I thought about starting something like this myself but since it's my ex and not me who has bipolar I thought it might seem a bit odd for me to do so -- so I am *really* glad you did!! Laughter is a great thing to have on your side with all these things.

Well, so you know I can't speak for myself here, but I'll give you some from my ex.

I know he's bipolar when he punches someone he's never met before in a pub on the basis that he doesn't believe what job he does for a living and while getting thrown out believes that he has a secret understanding with the landlord (who naturally also believes the other guy is lying even though he says nothing about this).

I know he's bipolar when he calls me up at 3am in the morning, crying and wanting me to listen to some sad music he's playing -- then holds the phone to the speaker for ages and I'm left wondering if this time we're going for one song, two, the whole album, has he fallen asleep? etc!

I know he's bipolar because he's done the whole break-up / not break-up thing so frequently now that I can predict his depressions and manias by what state our relationship's in at any given time (depression = we're together; mania, which we're on now = we're not together)!

Yes, it's nice to be able to laugh at these things! :) Thank you NiteScribe!!!

Rosie x

what fun!

when you're in kindergarden and the teacher tells your mother that you can usually be found crawling on the floor, avoiding the teacher.

when you talk with a barber for an hour about the history of his country (germany) and suddenly discover that he tuned you out 59 mins ago.

when you run an errand for your wife and forget what the errand was (before cellular phones)

look, i'm older than all of you and could go on simply because i've been here longer.  let's hear some more!

warren

You might be bi-polar when you calculate and figure that with a big sheet tied to your arms like wings you can jump off a two story balcony and slowly glide down. (didn't do it thank goodness, had another thought.)

You might be bi-polar and lost if you leave your apartment in Texas drive 250 miles into Oklahoma heading to Colorado (wrong direction) thinking GOD is telling you to.

You might be bipolar if you laugh at and relate to all these posts!

okay, heres one

You might be bipolar if you move everything out of your 2 car garage, (packed 2 car garage, mind you) sort through it all, spend an entire day going through box after box, and then put it all away, all alone and 8 months pregnant. When finished you decide you didn't sweep the floor well enough, move it all out again to redo the floor.

When you know you have to sort out the stuff in your room so you can move to Uni without taking needless stuff, but taking stuff you need... so you spend a week teaching yourself a new computer language so you can build a database and a program to run off it to *oprganise* the sorting of your stuff.
Oh god... I do this too much!
I *ORGANISE*
And then I don't get around to doing the stuff I organised myself to do, cos I come off the mania and collapse!

When your ADD/Hyperactive boyfriend is tired out because you're talking too fast, bouncing around, poking him all the time.

When your computer is crashing because you have 15 seperate firefox windows open, each with 10 tabs or more open, because you're trying to do enough stuff to keep your mind entertained.

When you have folders on your computer FULL of the most obscure information, incredibly detailed, on stuff you'd never EVER want to know about cos it's unbelievably boring... but obviously it was the focus of a mania at one point.

(And upsettingly: When you have to move your favourite teddy bears from boyfriend, and all your nice stuff into another room so you don't destroy them).

Thought we could all do with more laughs, so ... bump!

Rosie x

i'm like my cat.  i don't give up - i just lose interest.

seriously, i often find myself asking myself "how did i ever get here?  or waking up in the middle of a rage and saying "this ain't me."

warren

These are hilarious!!!!!!!!!

I might be bipolar if I drove 14 hours to Memphis to get something, then could not remember what it was I was after when I got there.

And, figure out a system that absolutely cannot fail on how to win on the craps table, then finding out too late the system has a flaw somewhere.

And, trying to fix the furnace on the coldest weekend of the year by completely disassembing it.

And, calling a boss in the middle of the night to explain why the project that was due 2 weeks ago was not done.

And, going on a dream vacation, but finding out after arrival at airport 150 miles away, the luggage is still next to the garage door at home.

Since I was sixteen, my bipolar motto has been:

“When you’re getting run out of town, get out in
front of the mob and make it look like a parade.”

Unfortunately, my mob directing “look” seems
to resemble the Tango enshrouded in a butterfly net
with a Thorizine shuffle.


I realize I’m bipolar when I’m telling a friend that
I will meet him in Palm Springs just as soon as
my attorney can fly me down. Then I remember
that the only thing my attorney has ever done for
me is to tell me he’s going to call the cops if I
don’t get out of his office.

-Norm

Bump!

You might be bipolar is you are taking your medication early in the morning and you think your phenagran is your prednisone. Your mind is so foggy that you read it wrong, then you pull out the next bottle and it's the prednisone. Suddenly you realize you have taken 20mg phenagryn, you take the prednisone and wonder if you can stay awake long enough to find out if you have overdosed and wonder if u should take your other meds. You call and they say, you wil just be sleepy for a while.
You drink coffee all day to stay awake, go to sleep that night, sleep all night and the next day, then wake up with a hangover..

You hide the phenagran but wirte a note where it is in case you get nausea. You definatly keep it far away from the prednisone. and check your eyeglasses.

If you get up in the middle of the night and eat jello with whipped cream ( several times) just because you are hungry from prednisone and have become addicted to sugar free jello and sugar free whip.
You panic if you run out. Gee.. the things that are important. lol

You definately might be bipolar if you are on here at this hour of the morning.