Are you in the closet about your biopolar disorder. Set your self free and relize this is not a crime but an opportunity to have a full and satisifying life. Are you running from getting help, do you tantrum, go into fits of rage, or have major highs and low? Then you might be biopolar. I am and have learned to deal with it and now I want to help others. Don't listen to the media that all biopolar people are self destructive not true. Admiting you have a problem is the first step, the second is asking for help, and the third is to choose a real close friend, brother, sister, or mom or dad. Let them in your world and ask them for support. The really have power over your biopolar you have to take action. Action means you are in control. You can learn how to act respond instead of how to react. Some signs of biopolar excessive sleep, no sleep, over spending of money, crying, quickly go through friends, anger, rage, outburst. Remember you don't have a disease just a chemical imbalance. Yes, there are many types of depression and only a trained medical person can safely diagonse you. Yet, how will you ever know if you don't know the systems. Don't be like me and years lateer
Tell The Truth I am Bipolar
By asesdeville - Posted on May 8th, 2008
Sometimes i think of myself as biopolar. My emotions changed rapidly throughout the day, sometimes i can feel happy and within hours i feel lost and emotionally hurt. Yeah i see so many commerical about depression and diopolar and stuff but i never knew the effects it can have on someone.
i am 17 years old and my childhood can be classified as hardship and major dramatic changes. you said that i have to confess to myself and to others that i have a seroius problem. i think that everyone in my family knows that my emotions changes like every hour. i can't changed that, i try to take control of things that i do but still my situation brings the tears, pain and miserly back to me. i don't know if you ever went to counseling for your biopolar or whatever reason have , but have u ever felted like it doesn't work, that you are alone in this world with something that changes every hour.
When I turned 18 the doctor switched my diagnosis from ADHD to Bipolar and put me on Lithium and a bunch of other meds. Those drugs had me feeling so screwed up. My Lithium levels were completely off all the time so I was constantly going to the Emergency Room. I told the doctor I didn't want to take the meds anymore, but he wouldn't take me off of them. So when I quit taking them on my own, I was labeled a "non-compliant" patient, so I never went back.
I am honestly not even sure if I really have bipolar or not, but I have taken quite a few meds for it. I think that maybe mood swings could be just a part of being human. What exactly is meant by "going through friends quickly"? Don't normal people have highs and lows?
I guess what I've never really understood is what is really meant by "normal." It seems like everyone has a label these days. How does anyone know anymore what a normal person feels like?