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Posted 3/15/2011 8:34 PM (GMT 0)
Pdoc said I was in a mixed state...having irritable, angry mania mixed with exhausted, anxiety riddled depression.

I find myself getting extremely irritated with aggressive drivers...usually males in pick-ups, screaming babies, unruly children, people of different race than me, shopping and rude people that jump the line or clog the line, impatience, being verbally frustrated at clerks and then having to go back and apologize, crying, overwhelmed by life, had to call in sick first time in six months, worried every day and praying like heck to make it through the work day.

I know nobody here cares enough to respond to my posts but it is therapeutic for me just to know you are taking the time to read it and getting it out of me helps.

I am a deeply spiritual being and am trying to channel my spirit guide and praying to whatever it's name is that started this whole thing called life on earth.

Sorry to bother you but I am flattened...guess the glass splintered...hope I don't miss any more work.
Posted 3/15/2011 8:39 PM (GMT 0)
Mixed states are scary. I hope your Dr. is taking care of you.

The first mixed episode I had, I believed I was being possessed by a demon! But I found some of my religious text and it did calm me.

Praying for you. :)
Posted 3/15/2011 9:40 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks tortoise 11....You and a few others here are responsible for me staying on my meds. You have helped me through this by telling me I was irresponsible for going off my meds. I didn't like it because I knew it was the truth. I had to give in and change my direction which is often hard to do when I get on a tangent.

This is the first time I have decided to stay on meds when I was secretly going to go off of them. I think it's an improvement. Yay me!

No...mixed states are not any fun. I'm wondering if I should immediately hand the dr.'s note to the Knut. When I go back to work thurs. Or try and wait for the tegretol and upped lamictal to kick in.

How many hours constitutes part-time. I think I can handle 25. Will she fire me for hiring me as part-time and not being able to do the 33-40 I get per week. I mean under 40 is part-time but for the first 2months I worked there I never had over 25 and I did fine. Now every week I'm loaded up and this is triggering the mixed state.

Again...thanks for being straight with me!
Posted 3/15/2011 11:06 PM (GMT 0)
 

 Its ok, you are loved. It just takes some of us time to respond. Im working 80 hours a week, just give me time and i will be there to talk to you.

  You need to get these mixed states under control

they are very dangerous and upsetting.  So getting the job under control is a great first start.

 Bill 

Posted 3/16/2011 6:13 AM (GMT 0)
Unfortunately, i'm in a mixed state right now too. Feel free to email me if you want to talk about anything. [email protected]
Posted 3/16/2011 7:09 AM (GMT 0)
i too suffer a mixed mood state. daily, nightly, all the darn time actually!!!!!
see the psychiatrist fri. med adjustment..........another mood stabiliser. keep strong, jamie.
Posted 3/16/2011 1:19 PM (GMT 0)
Red L,

Mixed states to me are the worse!  Hopefully your Dr. can get your meds adjusted a little better for you.  Last week I was Hypomania, tried to work through it but this week has just been plain weird.  I do have a Dr's appt the first of April, we are going to assess at that time if I am able to remain off meds.  Some days I know I can, others I am sure I should not be.

My worst fear was always losing my job, I worried about it until I was making the situation worse.  I try to go in everyday, do the best I can ad let it go.  I probably do come in on days I should not, but I have found that some of those days actually turn out OK once I get here.  I know in my heart that if I could reduce my hours therefore my stres level, I would feel better.

Hope today finds you in a better place.

Gem and I do care.

Posted 3/16/2011 1:34 PM (GMT 0)
hoping your appt goes well gem. keep strong; we care about you too!! with compassion, jamie.
Posted 3/16/2011 1:44 PM (GMT 0)
 Hey Jamie,

Are you feeling better today?

Gem

Posted 3/16/2011 2:08 PM (GMT 0)
Hey everybody...I hope you are all feeling better today! It's amazing how many of us are in the same boat. Though I hate having to take meds and am such a natural girl I had to finally concede to them. Dawgonit! If I were alone with a huge trust fund and no responsibilities to work or family I might try going off of them...maybe I'd live in a natural setting and eat all organic or live in an ashram in India. I did that for 4months back in 2004. I lived in the ashram and did 5hours of meditation and yoga per day while eating only natural vegetables and rice and sleeping on a thin mattress on the floor. I was very healthy on no meds. But I had to go home-I have children and at the time they were living with their dad's but still-4months is a long time. And my mother was very upset that I missed her70th birthday!

Anyway, I didn't know I had bp til I was 32. Had I known when I was 18 and it first appeared my life may have been much different. But at least the younger folks are getting help earlier in their lives. That's good.

The tegretol is making me drowsy but it feels good. I hope everyone else finds a recipe they can live with that helps their mixed states. We can all get better. I am feeling better today maybe because I got clarification from the dr that I was cycling and in a mixed state and needed another mood stabilizer. Modern science is good stuff although I am combining it with spirituality and bachs flower essences.

Love to you all
Posted 3/16/2011 2:26 PM (GMT 0)
Red,  Glad things are more positive for you today.  You mentioned that you wish you had been diagnosed earlier, I think it takes most people a while. 

Do what you have to do to be well! turn

Gem

Posted 3/17/2011 7:55 AM (GMT 0)
good on ya red !!!!!!!!! a little precious. soldering on. tired but still fightin' that good fight. with compassion, jamie
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