Bipolar Disorder?

Question

Do u have it? Share your story

Answer 1

I do not have it, but I live with two people who do and have a friend who has it. i also suspect someone of having it. It is a rollercoaster ride of emotions! for the people I live with anything can send them running off crying, something as silly as saying "excuse me" to get to something. they also can go into raging fits over nothing. Their spending habits are rediculous, they sometimes buy things just because they are on sale and most of the time.. un-needed. They can cause alot of problems in the house. My friend is pretty much normal though, she is a little easy to anger and a bit parinoid about relationships but she has it pretty much under control. The other person I spoke of is a different story all together. It got so bad with her that I had to cut her out of my life in order to protect my family (not in the sense that she would have murdered us or anything). one person that I forgot to mention was a family friends wife. She was off the handle, at the peak of an episode she stole a Van out of our driveway, went after my father with a baseball bat, claimed her husband's children as hers and they are not hers even though she was their step mom. This caused her to leave MANY messages on my moms answering machine ( their dad had med issues and my mom had temp custody of his kids) leaving threats. She was also in and out of the hospital so much that she actually knew how to manipulate the doctors into releasing her!! some of These people have made life interesting in a bad way! It makes me glad that I am not Bi polar but I hope that anyone who is can and does get the help they need for their safety and the safety of others!

Answer 2

I am 34 and I have bi-polar.

Basically, I'm depressed all the time and I really never have mania.

But after my extreme isolation for several years (just living with my parents) due to my severe depression, I went into psychosis (some psycho hyped up version of delusional mania) and I had to be hospitalized.

I was put on meds for the first time at the hospital.

Then I got somewhat better with the medication (so I could at least function) and was working successfully, but when I saved up enough money, I just quit and repeated the whole pattern again. The year of isolation, the psychosis, the hospitalization... the change in meds.

Now I'm in college full-time to see if I can finish an undergraduate degree. I get straight A's, but I'm still depressed. If left to my own devices, I would probably repeat the pattern isolation-psychosis again.

I just keep plugging away at school and plugging away with medication management and hope things will eventually get better.

Eh, I've spent a lot of years just staring at the wall with that severe depression in my life. I'm officially diagnosed as bi-polar with psychotic features.

Answer 3

I was diagnosed with bipolar 19 years ago although I am sure I had it since i was 16. I went thru alot of turmoil with the diagnosis. I was a heavy IV drug user until 7 months ago. The stigma of mental health issues was a big problem for me although I was a healthcare professional. I do rapidly cycle from depression to mania. I currently take 4 meds to try and keep my symptoms under control. i see my psych doctor every 4-6 weeks.

Answer 4

Hmmm......it sucks. I take 7 meds everyday. I have spent time in the hospital for both mania and depression. I got escorted 2 times to the hospital by the police when I was manic and kept insisting that I had the solution to the world while standing on a bridge.

I have been in the depths of depair ~ tried to kill myself 3 times ~ 2 stomach pumps resulting.

People think it is funny. That your mood changes from one minute to the next. IT'S NOT LIKE THAT. I can spend months in depression, barely being able to move. And weeks in Mania, where the world is so great, I think I am in charge of it.

Medications are a consistant part of my life. Sometimes they make me tired, sick, thirsty, etc. I have to have my blood tested every 3 months to make sure that my medications are in the right theurapeutic range.

It's no picnic....

Answer 5

yes... i was a crazy beotch forever.. i would start fights every time i went into public.. depressed couldnt get off the couch for like a month straight...then i would be a crazy manic and do outragous things..
now im on a bipolar and depression meds... 5 pills a day! but never been better... my psychologist is awsome too!

Answer 6

I do have it but don't want to share anything about. Except it's hard, it's embarrassing, and I feel less of a person because the medicine will be for the rest of my life.

Answer 7

The uncle on my mother's side and his son have it. One is on Prozac and the other on lithium. When they aren't on meds they get manic and work like constantly and get highly excited and sometimes violent. Luckily I only suffer depression and I refuse to take meds for that. Anti depression meds can actually make you worse, at least they did for me. I was on Paxil. I kinds agree with Tom Cruise on the meds thing even though I don't like him.