Bipolar Support Group

I just found and joined this group. I am 33 and have know I am bipolar 2 for about 7 years now. Prior to that it was always a struggle trying to cope with the emotions and not knowing why. Now it is just a struggle.

Welcome, we here all have that struggle in one way or another. Either we are bp like myself, or we have someone in our lives who is bp. Glad you are here. If you are looking to just chat go to the Anyone Awake thread. the heading changes each day, it is like the meeting room. Or you can pose a question and others will try to share with you their experience.

thank you

You are very welcome. If you want to talk that is good if not, that is ok too. I just want you to know some is here.

I have no problem opening up with my bp. I have just always found it easier to connect with people in person and open up emotionally to them because I am able to feed directly off of them more I geuus. Not that I wont talk on here just find it much harder reading people and I geuss to some extent their legitimacy.

Personally I was initially diagnosed as clinically depresive in I beleive 98 at the age of 24 after having prolonged depression bouts and seriously contemplating suicide. I went through hell though coming to grips with this and was misled by many around me and given a hard time by co workers making it that much more personal. However I have gotten a better job and been rediagnosed as bp2. I tend to have extreme though short lived highs when I am usually very irrational, usually get in trouble with that typical "retail therapy". When the lows come on though they tend to more slow onsetting and run much longer and deeper.

Hi, Hankdog-I'm glad you found this site. I just found it about a week ago and it has been great to have. For so long, I have felt like other people feel the same way I do, they're just better at handling it or that I could get better if I just tried harder. Finding this site and reading the posts has convinced me that I am sick and it's not my fault. Other people have had experiences exactly like I have, right down to really embarassing things like going for days without showering because you're too depressed to get out of bed You'll find help and support and you'll find that this site is really full of kind, caring individuals.

Welcome.

it is odd last few weeks I have been feeling the familiar sinking of the low. Been considering trying to get into a partial program again. Thing is now it would work. I just went out of work 2 weeks ago on an 8 week t-lo. I have my daughter all next week "she is off school and not working I wanted to spend the time with her". However I am seriously considering going back to them for a 2 week partial after that. Maybe try the med route again. I dont want to go down this path the hard way again, especially with my daughter in the picture now.

Hankdog, when I first came to this site I was waiting for them to ask me for my credit card number because I thought it might be a scam. true story,

I have been coming back over and over. It has been more help than I can say. I too like to be in more of a one on one theraputic enironment but this to me is the next best thing. We are not medical professionals, just real people who are bipolar. I was diagnosed in 1974.

I think it has been a part of my life since middle school or early high school, when i remember dissasociating from the crowd, but wasnt even looked at until 4 years after i graduated. 74?, I was born march that year

I know. I hate when that cloud starts coming over. For me, I know it's coming because I start feeling really bad about everything I do or say. It creeps up and before long, I'm just badmouthing myself in my head. It's a horrible thing to feel happening. You say you're thinking of going in to a 2 week partial. Are you talking about outpatient therapy? You also say you're thinking about the med route. Are you off meds all together right now? I wouldn't be able to deal without my meds. They stop working and I have to get them switched, but I can't go without any meds at all. If things are getting really bad, getting any help is probably good, whatever form it takes.