i've been disabled with fibro for 5 years. it's weird but doing these things are very exhausting for me. i even find activities you would consider more "strenuous" (ex: taking out the trash)easier...
towards hypomania or mania? for me it's when i start to be afraid of checking my email inbox well, suppose you suffer from both hypomania and the mania type, do you get different earliest signal...
if you have catatonic mixed episode before, what happens in your brain/what are you thinking about when it happens?...
up, the inferiority/self-shaming habit. i feel like a mom that feels inadequate about herself looking at her child as her pride and joy. i also see my mom acting this way when it comes to my dad is...
basically wondering,has anyone ever had it to the point they can't talk or move even a finger to call someone for help? bc i am also bipolar, i am wondering whether what i went through was possible...
i don't know how to describe this feeling, but i have only drank 4 cups of water a day all my life (i am now in my mid 20s). the last 3 years that i have been on meds for bipolar and fibro, i usually...
i have gained 15 pounds in the last 3 years i have been disabled and housebound from fibro + bipolar disorder weird thing is, my best friend (she is 5'1'', 170 pounds and doesn't have any illness),...
my dry eyes are coming from tense body muscles.. not isolated ocular condition per se i know when my back, shoulder and neck are well massaged i don't have dry eye problem. i am disabled with pain on...
from fibro/the tense muscles so qi/chi doesn't flow freely (or some more scientific term). when my back, then shoulder, then neck, then face (the massage therapist works from bottom to top) literally...
such that any communication is impossible. my mom will take one word from what i am saying and start running with it (start to talk in poems). when i try to guide her back from the diversion she...
*depressing. have been her client for 2 years now i have been to another therapist who is more cheerful/chirpier.. but not as understanding i get manic episodes (bipolar type 1) after therapist #1 's...
I stay in the living room, don't want to be inappropriate. I am fully visible when someone is using the kitchen. I have tried nipple cover, nipple pad: not effective enough coupled with summer tops...
i ask this bc my insurance might get cut off...
2 during the day and 2 before bed. I have a 2nd opinion pain management doctor (recommended by my 1st one) who concurs with my 1st doctor. The thing is, for some reason i have, on my own,only been...
.. that is not conchitis? is it constant? how severe is it and how do you find relief?...
is anyone in the same boat? my brain is foggy, i feel nervous all the time (mixed state, mania, depression) i graduated with honors from a top tier college, now can't even do 4th, 5th grade...
reminds me of poop black: my dad who sexually abused me: so i never wear black other examples: sea horse, butterfly, etc is anyone else like this? is it part of bipolar? where does it fit in/how?...
when i am maniac (which is often) i can't walk away is anyone in the same boat?...
i have it really bad...
urgh it's so annoying (to me) when fibro books say that my mom thinks fibro = too sensitive = making big deal (moderate~ severe pain, disabled) out of nothing she refused to speak to me and would...
i have been disabled the last 3 years (fibromyalgia and bipolar disorder) i am not hospitalized, but i am mostly housebound and sometimes bedbound eyes: can't move my arms much, watch tv and use...
i am not sure if i am just physically avoiding it (due to severe fibro , movement/holding something in place hurts) or mentally avoiding it.. or both). anyone else feel that way? *optional info...
my pain is around my left ribs (by which i mean the rib area covered by my left arm), as well as left mid~ left upper back. i would like a swim suit that doesn't put pressure on this area (if...
i am 25 year old female.i watch tv & am online a lot bc reading a book or doing puzzles doesn't provide enough "stimulation" to distract me from my pain. i am in too much pain to have the peace of...
happens to me... nerve i guess? (and a part of me always cringes at the prospect of having to have sex but one must compromise sometimes to be a relationship i guess.. such as by making sex as easy...
i feel like mine understands depression but not bipolar. i have been meeting with her weekly for a year and found out i am bipolar a month ago. she said she has one seen two other bipolar clients....
i am almost never able to... coupled with severe fibromyalgia, i am in a bad storm of negative emotions that i can't even take stock/evaluate over a day. i am not hospitalized, but i am disabled and...