Might I suggest therapy might be helpful for you too? My wife wasn't diagnosed until she was fifty and had a complete breakdown. Like your wife she went through her manic episodes disrupting kids and...
Thank you all...had a breakthrough moment the other day. After keeping company with Captain Morgan for one more night the levee broke. I had gotten used to the blackouts. I didn't drive or go out...
Oh Darlin', You mention your parents and grades so you must be perhaps a teen or early twenties? If I could talk to my teenage self I would have told her to get help and the right medications if...
Then there's the other side of depression. I go manic, you get to where you can't read, you can't think, all you can do is spin like a top. Meds help but it's a frightening feeling to go through....
My name is Paul. I belong to any number of interesting forums. Devoted dog lover and avid reader. Also active alcoholic, bi-polar with meds, and facing midlife feeling quite alone. I'm supposed to...