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Hope is my lifeline. When I feel like giving up I pull hope from deep down inside me to grow and blossom until I have the will and strength to keep going.

I love the word Hope so much I named my daughter Hope. Seeing the word Hope fills me with warmth.

No matter how bleak things seem there is always hope and hope will only go away if you allow it to. What are things we can do to keep hope alive inside our hearts?

It was the hope of getting better that helped me keep trying different medicine combinations, even after one sent me to the ER. It's the hope of becoming a psychologist someday that gets me through college. I have a lot of my life caught up in hope.

I'm in short supply of hope on my own right now, but thanks to all of you very special people this site has become my lifeline. Thank God for all of you, you are very inspiring to those of us who need a push right now. I look forward with great anticipation to when it will be my turn to throw the prospect of hope to someoone else.

Giving hope to others brings hope to yourself along with a feeling of fullfillment. Instead of focusing on the negative things going on in my life I focus on the good. This gives me hope for a better future and helps me appreciate what I have.

My lack of hope affects my stability, because I have nothing to pull me up from the depths of despair when I'm there.

Hope can be hard to find sometimes. But you can find it. Life is full of so many possibilities both good and bad.Sometimes things happen that are beyond our control. Once you are stabilized Lisa you will feel hope again. The key is to get you stabilized and to a tdoc. It takes work to feel hope but it is possible. You are not worthless. You are a wounderful humanbeging with so much to give. Don't give up, find a lifeline and hold on with all you've got.

Post edited by: taurus, at: 05/29/2009 08:25 PM

Taurus:"I love the word Hope so much I named my daughter Hope. Seeing the word Hope fills me with warmth"

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Hope in spite of having only four letters the word hope is a very big and powerful word.

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Just where would be without it? I really hate to think. And that is not just us with Bipolar Disorder it is every human on this planet.

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Hope does indeed fill us with warmth and positive thoughts.

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Without hope the whole world would collapse. No human would do anything, no crops grown. The list goes on and on. After all why bother, if there is no hope of being successful?

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Hey thanks Taurus, for waking me up.

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Ah did not answer the question in your subject heading. Yes hope does indeed affect our stability, in a positive way.

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JennyWren

Post edited by: jennywren, at: 05/29/2009 11:52 PM

Without hope I would not be alive. When I am depressed, hope seems to vanish and I sink deeper into the pit. What I have to do is remember the blessings I have in my life, I have to remember the times when I have been stable and then hope begins to rise again. It sometimes takes another person to remind me of these things, but that's okay. Hope is what keeps me going in spite of the difficulties of life and bipolar. I would be lost without it.

If I did not have hope in my life, I honestly think I would be dead right now. Even when life with all its difficulties gets me very depressed, I always know (even when its hard to see) theres a light at end of tunnel, and that light is God for me and He's why I strive to keep myself above water, even when i'm drowning. My faith in God gives me this hope, and then love can enter my life to the fullest. The three virtues, Faith, Hope & Love are what keeps me alive and almost well. And, knowing that I am a child of God makes me want to strive to be the person God wants me to be (even though its hard to live up to at times) and that He loves me no matter what.

I know I got a bit carried away here, sorry for being soooo gabby....lol

There are times when I'm a quart low in my Hope tank. When I'm around people (like you), I feel myself feeling better and my fuel gauge perks up a notch. If I use this metaphor one step further, I need to be careful to watch for when I get too low, and when I sense my hope tank is approaching empty, I need to do something - even if it means getting out and pushing once in a while.

I like this picture "Boulevard of Boken Dreams," because it is an icon for me for when I've been there, done that in my life, and I've come to realize that hopes and dreams depend so much on how carefully I treat the fragile part of me so that it grows stronger.

Post edited by: scooby, at: 05/30/2009 10:12 AM