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Bipolar Forums › Lounge - Off topic discussions › Just for interest do you feel worse on a full moon
05/05/2012 06:07 PM
Cat349243
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Just for interest,

Do you guys feel worse on a full moon? A lot of mental health professionals think people get more mental illness symptoms on full moon. I will start by saying I don't know why but I definitely do!
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05/05/2012 06:19 PM  Top
porch52
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I tend to feel bad on certain days of the week, related to my shedule. Right now, Friday nights are worse for me, followed by a bad Saturday (Fridays are usually good). Generally I find the second last _____ (day, week, hour, etc) is always worse than the last. Like, Thursdays have always been my least favourite day of work and I'm most tired that night.

05/05/2012 06:32 PM  Top
MBPRLY
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Last night it was pretty damn full and tonight it is supposed to be a "big moon". I actually enjoy being out under the clear sky sky with stars and the moon. I look up and wonder how many others are looking up at the same moon.
I woke up this morning thinking I'm not the guy I use to be yesterday, but the guy I want to be tomorrow.

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05/05/2012 06:36 PM  Top
porch52
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hmm, maybe I am affected by the full moon. I know working with kids we used to say they got a little crazier during the full moon, but I never actually paid attention.

05/08/2012 10:24 AM  Top
lj80
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we had the biggest moon of the year last week and did it ever pull hard on me. I can always tell when the moon is full but this one was pretty harsh. Alot of people would say its not true but I know what I feel.
somedays every minute is a battle.....but I can only take it one minute at a time...

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05/08/2012 02:42 PM  Top
centerseeker
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I don't think I feel any different but my friend is a nurse in a mental hospital and she swears her patients always get more symptomatic. Who knows though? Maybe it is because the staff is believing the myth (if it is a myth) and being more sensitive to challenges?

I do know when I worked in customer service for a public bus company full moon days always seemed to be filled with wacky happenings though again, was it or were we just more sensitive to noticing?

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05/08/2012 02:48 PM  Top
PhantomSiren
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I don't know if it's always this way for me, but lately, in the last month or so, I noticed when I had some really bad depression it was a full moon or just after one.

05/08/2012 10:33 PM  Top
TeelRain7
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I almost always feel manic on full moons. I don't know why but I remember it being this way for a long time now. I just feel more alive. I remember feeling this way before I even found out I was Bipolar. So maybe it does make symptoms stronger or worse. Mine just happen to be manic...which is definitely better than being depressed.
Consequences become your fate, real life gives you hardships to endure to become crazier or more sane than the rest. Relationships give you the power to change, good or bad. Childhood gives you time to be socialized into the personality you keep developing until old age. Then your traits become your rules til death do you part.

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05/08/2012 10:35 PM  Top
TeelRain7
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I also think that crazier things tend to happen on full moons...the air seems to feel more eccentric
Consequences become your fate, real life gives you hardships to endure to become crazier or more sane than the rest. Relationships give you the power to change, good or bad. Childhood gives you time to be socialized into the personality you keep developing until old age. Then your traits become your rules til death do you part.

Bipolar
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Lamictal 200mg


You are the creator of your experience...not the victim of your circumstances:)

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What is your FEELING WORD?

05/09/2012 07:26 AM  Top
StickyPaws
There's only one, sometimes two, full moons per month, but I like all the phases, even the new moon. I feel more alive when there's a full moon. I guess there might be something about strange things happening in a full moon. After all, the moon is responsible for pulling the earth's water back and forth, so why not us?
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