I can understand what you mean by nothing feeling real. I get that too. Sometimes it only lasts for hours but sometimes it lasts for days. It feels like a veil has been lifted from the world and I'm...
Hi. Im 20 years old too and have battled depression for the last couple years--since starting college. Last year they re-diagonosed me with bipolar disorder and thats why the anti-depressants werent...
I've been taking Lamictal for almost a year now. I started out really slowly and it took me about 6 months to get up to my current dosage. I didn't have any problems with it and it has started to...
Im 20 years old and am a junior in college. Since starting college I have lived with my dad and younger brother. My dad has supported me financially since I havent had a job since starting college....
I am really freaking out. I was manic a couple of months ago and ended up having unprotected sex with three different guys. One of them is now my boyfriend. I havent had my period and took a...
Lately its been like I cant feel anything. Im not wallowing in dispair or mania like I was a few months ago but Im not happy either. I dont feel anything. For example, my parents are getting divorced...
Thank you so much for your advice. Ive heard about Alanon but Ive never tried it before. Seeing as you found it so helpful Im going to go to one next week and see if it works for me. Thank you again....
Im 19 years old and in college but I still live at home. I go to school all day and arent really home until around 5 each noght but this is also the time my mom gets off work. Shes been an alcoholic...
When Im edging towards mania I get really mad really easily too. Just the other day I threw a shoe at my friends head because he moved my stuff around. Maybe you are the same way and you are becoming...
I was in a car accident a few days ago and my friends have approached me with concerns that Im manic. They say that the car accident triggered it and that Ive been acting differently since then. They...
I just got out of the hospital last month for the second time this year due to another mixed episode and now, hardly a month later I can feel another one coming on. Because of everything thats...
Thank you for all your concern. Im doing better now, even though the outpatient program insnt helping at all. Im just worried that its going to happen again and I wont know how to deal with it just...
I have been having what my doctor calls a mixed episode since last friday. It has been a little over a week and it doesnt seem to be going away any time soon. I dont know if anyone here has ever had...
Thank you everyone for all the responses, Im trying all of the things that you suggested. Heres hoping they work :)...
Just yesterday I found a huge lump on the side of my dogs neck. His mouth is also swollen to two times its normal size. I took him to the vet and he said its either an infection or he has cancer. Im...
Thank you everyone for all of the advice, it was really helpful, especially the link that Trying to Understand provided. Thanks...
Im pretty sure ROCD is real, only because her pdoc and her therapist diagnosed her as that. She isnt as controlling as I made her out to be, she just becomes really insecure and gets really afraid...
Hey my best friend who Im really close with has just been diagonosed with Relationship OCD. Basically she thinks that since Im pretty close to a friend I met in the hospital, who also has a mood...
I think you need to sit down and have a long talk with your boyfriend explaining everything that youre feeling. Hes being very selfish and if he doesnt want to talk then be persistant. If he is...
Ok Ill try reading a book and going outside. Thanks again for the advice, its much appreciated....
Thank you Ill try both of those. Its just really hard to make myself go to sleep, even my medication that usually knocks me out wont put me to sleep...
I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions or tips on how to deal with hypomania and the comedown afterwards? Im on medication but I was just wondering if there was anything else I could do...
Rapid cycling is going up and down within a matter of days between mania and depression...
Thank you I was just wondering because I just started Geodon but Im still rapid cycling. Its probably just because I just started and havent found the right dosages yet. Thanks again!...
Im really sorry that youre feeling so down and it sounds like youre going through a lot. But dont pile balme and guilt onto yourslef over something you had no control over. Your doctor did NOT get in...
Im hypomanic right now and I cant sleep either. I think you need to try your hardest to just focus tomorrow and try not to think too much about all of the pressure that your boss is putting on you....
Hey Lindsay. Im 19 and Ive been dealing with depression for over 8 years and have recently been diagonosed bipolar. My parents were no help to me either, they never even noticed how upset I always...
This my be a stupid question but Im new to being bipolar so Im going to ask it anyways. I was just wondering if youre able to get on the right medications at the right dosages, can you still have...
Im sorry about your horse, I just lost my oldest one yesterday. Its been kind of a hard couple of days, especially for my younger horse who is now alone. I think Im going to start looking around for...
Yeah I usually go down just as much as I go up. Thanks for the advice, I love journaling so Im really going to start recording my moods...
Im only feeling hypomanic right now but its the depressive comedown that Im not looking foward to. If I start to feel sucidial or go into full blown mania again Im staying at a friends house so they...
When I went off birth control earlier this year I cycled slower for about 5 months but then I went back to the rapid cycling I had before...
Thats really good to know, Ill be sure to stay in my major now. Thank you so much for that website and the book reccomendation--Ive already looked throught the website and am going to try and get the...
Thank you so much skeye, its really nice to know that there is someone else who understands all of the pressure Ive been under to get good grades with the future of more school looming over me. My...
Yes I told him everything that I was doing, everything I described plus my lack of sleep and behavoir around my friends as well. Im on Geodon...
I was able to go to my doctor this morning and he gave me some meds to tie me over until I get everything worked out with the insurance company. Im still feeling really down but hopefully the meds...
I was going to a therapist who only had me talking about what was bothering me and then she would ask me the sterotypical question--"How does that make you feel?" I just felt like screaming at her,...
I havent been on any meds for about two weeks as Ive been trying to work issues out with my insurance company and Ive been rapid cycling. The other day I was very manic while I was at school. I was...
I agree with Tortoise make sure you call your doctor. You should also ask your doctor about Luvox. My best friend has intense paranoia and is always checking windows and doors. Shes also afraid of...
Great job!! I wish I was doing as well in school as you are. Keep up the good work :)...
Im sorry if this is a little off topic but Ive read a couple of theads about people who become really anxious in crowds or around a lot of people and I was just wondering if social phobia is common...
Thanks Skeye Im going to try to get in contact with my schools disability office tomorrow and ask about what they would be able to do; but, like you said, Im not expecting too much. Mostly Im just...
For your anxiety, my therapist reccomended for me to read "When Panic Attacks" by David Burns. Ive yet to have enough money to go out and get it but she seems to think that along with medicine it...
Ive gotten down to one coke a day which has been and still is pretty difficult since coke is my favorite soda...but im trying!...
no i didnt even know that you could get disability accomodations. Did you just talk to the disablitly office at your school? What do they entail? ill have to try to look into that....
I agree with DoUTripOnAir. im not close to my parents at all and neither of them are bipolar but if i were in your daughters situation i would have a much bigger incentive to stop cutting. From my...
Yeah DoUTripOnAir ive really been able to identify with you too and ive never met anyone else who was diagonosed with depression at such an early age. for me too cutting is just something i always...
i dont drink decaf but i do have tea every once in a while...
thank you so much, i had no idea that caffiene had such a strong effect. im really going to try to stop cutting, which is going to be hard because ive been doing it for 8 years. but like DoUTripOnAir...
Im going through the same thing with college. Ive always been an all A student but this past semester Ive had no intrest or motivation to do anything school orientated. I also have intense anxiety...