I just need to rant to those who know: I’m having a bad side effect with one of my meds when taken too close to eating (major RLS for two hours) so I skipped and missed two doses now. Today I’m back at work, in a foul mood and hating life. Now I realize why. DUH. To top it off I see my Psych this afternoon for my quarterly med checkin. I was prepared to tell him I’ve been in a upswing the past few weeks and now I’ve totally crashed in two days. I did this to myself and I hate myself even more for it.

I have a few friends in my life who have seen me manic, depressed, etc over the years. At this point we've largely fallen out of touch and I'm better handling my illness but I still want to tell them. I'm not sure why, maybe just to spread awareness I suppose.

ive flunked out twice already and very nervous about going back to school i tried to pick a program im very interested in and just a certificate program to learn the skills and maybe the teachers will know of some jobs i can do after i complete the program any advice on not having another mental breakdown halfway through the semester and failing again? im afraid my medication may not be enough, ill need coping skills too

i started smoking cigarettes a while ago and noticed i get very relaxed when the headrush kicks in obviously i don't want to make smoking a habit, should i ask my doctor about getting back on ritalin or something or would that make manic episodes worse i already take geodon so i should at least be a bit sedated

I was diagnosed after being hospitalized last summer. I've tried a few different meds, but none of them "felt like they worked."

I haven't taken any or seen the doctor in a few months, not really intentionally I just didn't make an appointment and convinced myself I was OK!

I'm starting to think that I should go back on them though... This isn't the first time I stopped them either, so I hate to keep crawling back after stopping them...

Needing to make an appointment every month and stick with it is unreasonable, lol, I don't know if I'll ever be able to do that consistently every month!

Anyways, how many times did you think you were cured and stop taking meds? If you have meds that work well, how could you tell?

I hope you're having a nice day 😊 and if you aren't then I want to hear about it!

BP2. I've been in a depressive episode for almost 2 weeks now and I just can't fucking deal right now. I run my own business and I'm ready to fire one client and to tell another to take their project elsewhere. I know, I KNOW I should not be making decisions like this in this state, but I just can't handle it anymore. I basically quit in the middle of a meeting this morning because I couldn't handle another pedantic fucking conversation, and now everyone is messaging me asking if I'm OK, and I'm not. And there's really fun work that I should be focusing on, but I'm too preoccupied with the crap stuff, and I only have like 1/10th of the energy I should have, anyway, so I can barely muster the energy to just exist.

Thanks for reading. Maybe tell me to not screw up my life right now. Or tell me to go for it. I'm good either way.

So, after 9 1/2 hours of working In a kitchen I was on my way home. I took off my shoes and socks because my feet hurt.

I get on the tram. A few seats next to me a woman sat, loudly talking on the phone.

The call ends and she sees me, being Barefoot. She starts loudly berating me for my disgusting toe nails, and the dirt under my nails etc. At this point I notice that she seems off somehow. Other people start chiming in that my feet are fine and that she should mind her own business. This continues for another 5 minutes, I'm making snarky remarks. I honestly didn't care about her, just being tired after 13 hours awake. Some other things she said:

typical German thing, Turks and Arabs would never do that (she was of Turkish origin).

The hairs on my feet are disgusting.

Ithe other passenger start exiting the tram, it's just us two now basically. I put on my headphones completely ignoring her. She stands up and sits directly in front of me. I take off my headphones.

I ask her if she has bipolar disorder. She asks me if I doe. I say yes. She says she has it too. I say that she seems manic. She agrees. She nearly starts crying and apologizing . I say it's fine, because I realized early on and that I know she didn't mean to harrass me, I can relate.

We talk a bit about bipolar stuff. I tell her I just came from work and my feet hurt, that she's right I should cut my toe nails. She asks me what I work, I tell her I work in a kitchen In a refugee camp.

She starts crying and apologizing again. We exchange names and I have to get off the tram. Once outside I wondered wtf just happened.

That's my very weird random story I experienced on Saturday.

Have you ever randomly met other manic people? It

Done at 4am when hypomanic, right after a depressive episode ended

Gonna be my last post for today. Trying to get some content and discussion going :)

A drawing I made in the psych ward recovering from Depression.

This was before I got on Lithium, since then I've been completely stable. But looking back at these graphs it's quite frightening

A bit of a strange title, but I couldn't come up with something more summarising. A few weeks ago I've ended up getting to the hospital. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

Since then by reading leaflets, browsing the web and consulting specialists, I've learned that the disorder and diabetes can influence both positive and negative on each other. While I believe that's true in a heartbeat, it's hard to find good research on it in a normal readable way (not too medical).

Anyone in a similar situation or just interested with some good material to read?

Weekly discussion of new or impactful music you’ve been listening to. Please share songs, albums, or artists!

Hi all,

I've been on Lithium for around 10 years, it's been a life changer for me. Aside from mood stabilisation, I feel it's had positive effect on my mental health in general, odd little kinks and glitches ironed out.

However physically I feel like it's been quite rough on my body. I've had various issues to do with inflammation (e.g. hospitalised for cellulitis), have developed horrible painful psoriasis on my scalp that turns into welts, and get incredibly itchy in my hands and feet especially so take antihistamines to get under control.

Does anyone else have experience like this or am I wrongly thinking this may be lithium related? My GP doesn't think it's necessarily related but may be.

I'm considering changing meds but not sure of the effectiveness of others,, what the side effects may be and how they would make me feel.

Thoughts welcome 😊

My anxiety is pretty bad today so I want to ask a question. What do you do when you are anxious to try and soothe yourself?

I try to do simple repetitive tasks that can help take my mind off my worries but that doesn’t always work.