Interesting. I'm trying to learn about this. I'm a night shift supervisor at a large industrial facility, and one of my crew appears to be bipolar. I've known him for 25 years. Sometimes he's extremely happy and child like. When he's happy about something, he smiles and clinches his fists and says..."Yaaay!" Other times he gets angry for no apparent reason. He's never, ever in the middle. He's so predictable. Every time he gets mad at me, I stop talking to him. He will walk away and I wait. About 15 minutes later, I'm saying to myself......"Right about........Now." And here he comes.....Head down and sad. He extends his arm towards me, with a Hawaiian Punch in hand. "I'm sorry." "God bless you." I work shoulder to shoulder with everyone on my crew. In Johnny's case, I've learned how to deal with him. He needs his space.
Not necessarily. I was misdiagnosed with depression for years because I have mixed moods/agitated depression. Everybody just thought I was a raging asshole. It wasn't until later on when it got worse that we put 2 and 2 together.
+Meredith Williams same thing happened to me with diagnosis. Did you find anything helps you? My doctor is talking about meds, my previous history with meds makes me hesitate but at the same time I feel like I have no choice, hope it works.
I kinda agree with your comment, mainly because most people know when they are feeling abnormally low or high but if its all you have ever felt then you wont know what "normal" mood swings feel like so you may now know it.
Diagnosed with bipolar type 1 at 23.Have been a disability ever since because of it.Life sucks right along with my morning dose of Abilify,Celexa,and Prozac.I wish I could be normal but I must've missed that train...Good Luck everyone.
These are horrible drugs. Such drugs Ruined many years of my life. Read book anatomy of an epidemic by Robert Whitacker. And Wake up pls. There is no chemical imbalance
I've been diagnosed with bipolar for almost 4 years but others have been noticing signs for 5 years before my diagnosis. There are still family members who don't understand my illness so this a great video to show to them to try to make them understand.
Jeeze people, please don't suddenly think you are bipolar just because you saw some video on it. Bipolar has become glamorized. Suddenly everyone and their grandma is suddenly saying they have it. Having bipolar is hell, and you'll know it if you really have it. I knew there was something wrong LONG before I was diagnosed.
My manic episodes are weird as hell. I just turn into this massive sarcastic clown-like person. The delusions can be quite fun however the lows are absolutely terrible.
Leonie Mounsey Yeah haha, I experience pretty strong delusions bordering on grandeur. I had a pretty big episode a few months ago where I thought i was some sort of secret agent -- long story short I ended up playing basketball with security at my local hospital dressed in a suit and several layers of clothes. The whole experience is quite comical in retrospect.
I get weird laugh attacks that turn into uncontrollable sobbing that can last for hours along with the feeling that nothing is real and I'm a dreamy fog.
I recommend psychotherapy in a clinic/clinical hospital attached to a University (if possible). Art therapy helped me a lot, KIP therapy helped me a lot, too. KIP means you have to relax, go into semi-unconscious mood, and imagine a pond/meadow etc., and what you see in it/feel attached to the picture which will come alive through your unconscious united with your conscious, and your thoughts/fears/anxieties hidden in your subconscious will come alive. It is very hard and often makes your feel bad before you feel better. Do not do this at home, only with a trained psychotherapist. ;) The person will help you face yourself. What is helping me to do something creative, like narrations, - I' m even on a CD as narrator, thanks to one of my friend - , voicing - giving voices to different characters of manga, custom campaigns in computer games (fanmade ones) not voiced before. Also, drawing, writing poems, reading helping to me. Also, it is hard to forget traumas you imagine as traumas or real ones. I had them, like being beaten in broad daylight in street, and nobody helped, not one people out of fear and ignorance. And I was humbled at bus in broad daylight for 3 months, nobody helped, and evil persons followed me. I was told it happens etc. by professional docs/therapists and policemen, nothing can be done. Plus, I have other problems, and people do not tolerate med-taking, physical illnesses and other stuff like these, so had to learn to enjoy life alone. Plus, I have to protect me and them from them/me. Sometimes I do not even get 30 mins of conversation with people through net a day, or not even from my parents. But creative stuff is good, and helping others through listening to their problems, woes, sorrows, joys, sharing it with them (maybe through net first). And sure, you can also learn singing techniques, languages and many other stuff from net. IT IS HARD, I KNOW, I HAVE TO CREATE MY OWN HEAVEN/HAVEN OF JOY EVERY DAY, BUT IN THE END, SUCCESS WILL COME TO PASS, AND YOU WILL BE PROUD OF YOURSELVES.
This is absolutely the most concise, efficient, and effective explanation of bipolar disorder I have ever heard by a medical doctor. Hats off to Dr. Nina Moadel!! Dr. Jay Carter
It's okay lovely. Honestly you have a lot of the same symptoms I did. I know exactly what you mean when you say you're scared to tell your parents. It took me a year of depression and the cutting to finally tell my mom that I couldn't take it anymore and she got me the help I needed. Its been rough trying to get her to understand what I was feeling but it was worth telling her. I think you should def tell your parents how you're feeling especially since there's a history of it in your family.
I must have rapid cycling, for the longest time my dr thought I had depression and anxiety, however I have been re-diagnosed as rapid cycling with anxiety disorder. I'm finally on a stabilizer and can actually function. I still have some symptoms, however I am able to control them now rather than flying into rage, depression, or becoming manic
Rapid cycling bipolar disorder, panic disorder, epilepsy & contamination fear OCD. All very neurological, physiological & emotional in their behaviors. best to seek treatment by medication & cbd/talk therapy. Quality of life generally increases with treatment, months to years to fully become functional if the conditions are acute. Good luck, fellow fighters! ♡
As it was suggested above - it is textbook stuff, really. And well, almost every mentally healthy person has their bad downs or awesome highs. I was so far diagnosed with cyclothymia, just because i can't "sustain" my episodes to longer periods of time and i'm too young (21), but hey, i can admit that i've been delusional, i've been in such bad fits of rage over nothing that not only i hurt myself, but also others. i have tons of scars and people are literally scared of me when i'm manic.
Very clear and useful upload. I suffer with cyclothymia and the depressive episodes along with anxiety are worse than the highs which do not happen very often. The lady is correct with my type of bi- polar. The worst aspect is that the lows make me feel suicidal. Thankyou for this very useful upload, I hope it helps a lot of sufferers.
I had been experiencing and reporting all these symptoms to my GP and Psychiatrists for over 4 years, all while my life was turning into a mess / nightmare, and they thought I was just experiencing stress related depression, they would even suggest me to go out with friends and have a few beers to relax, despite me telling them that alcohol would drive me crazy, and the only thing they prescribed were pills of serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SRI), an anti-depressant, which caused severe manic episodes and worsened my situation further.... until last week, when I had another massive manic episode and stayed awake almost constantly for about 9 days / nights in a row, I ended up in the hospital and BINGO, they finally diagnosed me with Bipolar, as soon as I took a mood stabilyzer / anti-convulsant, the whole damn thing cooled down and I started feeling normal again within 1 day! So if you are reading here and people (including doctors) seem not to listen / undertand what's going on, make sure to insist and to remark how dangerous your moods can be for you and others and to push to look into this further, and do not accept to be dismissed immediately with generic depression.
jess jesse I know what you mean but this is not the case :-) I have always self-medicated myself without ingesting anything (for example, doing meditation and eating healthy food homegrown by my grandpa). However, what I am experiencing has been experienced by other people also in the far past, when pharmacy pills were not available, and I know as a matter of fact that many members of my family have the same issue, including my grandpa and and some other ancestors that are not among us anymore, people that lived in a rural island where pharmacies didn't even exist until 50 years ago :-)
You know not everything is BULLSHIT! I grew up in a very abusive, alcoholic childhood and I think that is what caused me to be diagnosed as bipolar and manic depressive disorder.I have been plagued most of my life with thoughts something bad happening to me or someone I love.I have had episodes of anger,Thoughts that are bad. I remember as a child it would rain and I would cry and become severely depressed or if it was sunny I be really happy.I have had issues with drugs alcohol,cigarettes,and suicide.I have been depressed and hospitalized.I am 40years old now and I have many more problems but, Thanks to God I'm alive.The people who say that this is not a disorder Walk 40 years in my shoes than tell me this is not a disorder.Till then try not to hurt others with your comment because, rather you believe that this is a disorder or not,Trust me it Is real.
Thanks, I was lucky because many years ago I walked in the same place were many great men of the past have walked and I read the aphorism written on the temple of Apollo for over 2400 years already, "Know thyself". I realized not only that I know nothing about my true self but I also decided never to allow anyone to tell me what myself is or what it can be. Meditation, nature and sun gazing will help u reach ur inner silence where the true voice of yourself can be heard again:)Everyone can do it
Wow, exactly how I feel. This happens to me all the time. I tell myself that if I didn't have this then I'd never know whats it like to be so happy :) I think we don't have necessary " filters " for our emotions, they are very raw I think. But don't be sad just know that there is someone somewhere who feels what you feel..You are not worthless, you are a nice human being who feels enormosly...Merry Xmas :)
Completely agree with you, that's why I said in my previous comments that I do believe that there are people with serious illnesses who DO need help. But there are people who use the disease as an excuse for their unfit behavior and it becomes a way for them to run away from their problems.
I have diagnosed anxiety disorders and undiagnosed depression but honestly bipolar disorder sounds too much like me. I go through the phases where I'm extremely irritable, reckless behavior, aggravated or I have a sudden increase in self esteem sometimes with these symptoms. Then the other times I suffer from depression which includes all symptoms. Sometimes I'm neither. My anxiety isn't so bad those days and it's all pretty neutral but at this point I'm going to have to talk to my therapist about it because I just don't know
Rustin Wilson My daughter is also rapid cycling with mixed episodes and It is scary and horrible. I don’t agree with this presenter that BP1 is the worst...rapid cycling with mixed episodes is awful. My heart goes out to anyone suffering from this awful illness 🙏
i am bipolar II. my hypomania includes reckless shopping , things i dont need at all. i have experience intense rage. i have tried to punch through walls, bite my lips to the extent of bleeding, pull my hair out in chunks, even tried to slam a door shut on my hand to name a few. my depression is debilitating . i cannot get out of bed, cannot eat and have tried to take my life on two occassions, ended up in the icu on one of them . i have been on a combinations of drugs for over 6 years now,it has made me stable but i still have episodes. its difficult now because we are trying to conceive but i want to be drug free for conception and pregnancy but i want to be in the best mental health possible to take care of the baby if and when it arrives
I know I have Bi-Polar II, OCD, PSTD, and am borderline schizophrenia. I am finally basically controlled on medicines, but it took a while to find this all out and find the right medicines to work. Thank GOD I'm not always depressed and wishing I'd die anymore. As I remember my childhood I can see my mom had mental illness and she passed her genes onto me. She tried to self medicate with alcohol, which did nothing but give her liver death at 56. I am 56 now and have passed those same rotten genes onto my children. I have a son who lives on the streets and is a heroin addict. He just got out of treatment in February this year. He was doing fine until he ran out of his zubzal and in the area where I live there were no doctors who would subscribe that to him. So he ended up back on the streets and back on the heroin. It really angers me that my son is out somewhere lost in drug land because doctors can't write a stupid prescription without a certain license. I am disabled and live in an old messed up trailer park. The stupid managers wouldn't even let my sick son live with us in our trailer. My income from SSDI is 692.00 a month and when my son was here both of our cars were broken down so I couldn't even take him out of town to get him the meds he needs. It literally breaks my heart that I cannot help my precious son. I am so broke it's not even a joke!!! I worked hard my whole life, and finally graduated from Jr. College with an AS in Medical Professions and a LVN, I went to school worked, and tried my best to take care of my 5 kids for 10 years to get it. I've lost my license now, because I got so sick I couldn't work any more. I have a ton of medical problems as well as mental problems. I've said all this stuff just to let others know mental illness is not a joke! It's not all in your head that you can control: Mind over Matter so to speak, my eldest son, the one I spoke of, and my youngest daughter have attempted suicide so many times. It's even started to affect my youngest son. And there is not a damn thing I can do about it. Maybe if I had a few grand lying around so I can get a dependable car, and get out of this Gustopo ran trailer park,and get a doctor who's not afraid to use his pen. But my husband only makes minimum wage and I'm on SSDI and we barely make it from one month to the next. But you yourself, get help if you feel you need it. And watch your kids, if you see them doing stuff like washing their hands all the time. And asking you how you get different diseases, or want to talk to you and then just can't sit and be patient until he gains the confidence to tell you.GOD there is so much more, I hope you've read this far, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE get help!
I can be very outgoing depending on my mood :o. I like being alone. But I know if I'm alone too long, my thoughts happen. So I have to be around others to distract me from that. But I also know I have my limits
Im not one to diagnose myself but i have to have some kind of bi polar depression...i latch out into manic episodes, do or say things i normally wouldn't, then a min later i feel guilty, confused, and i cry because i regret what i just did and i feel like i have no control when im in the manic episodes.. I def have depression..my libido is gone, can't concentrate..and yeah pretty much everything she said under depression..
I have these strongly intense racing thought states that happen in which I can't focus and struggle to verbalize what I'm saying, although this seems sometimes too intense and wares out my brain, I feel like it's the place I get a lot of deep thinking done and sometimes I feel like I benefit from these manic episodes only just realised what happens to me could be bipolar but honestly it isn't something I'll look to treat
I actually went as far as wrapping one of my thick belts around my neck one night as i just wanted to get out, and wanted the thoughts in my head to stop. :( I'm seeing my doctor tmr to get some more meds and talk. My Mum has been supportive, and i have sent her vids from YT to help her understand what i go through.
It does hurt. I didn't know what was happening to me. I couldn't stand the way people would look at me, it made me not want to talk to them, and that made them look at me even more strangely, all because I was different. I wasn't what they expected me to be. The problems I was dealing with just became more stressful because I felt alone. No one understood. I learned how to control it, though. I wish you all the best intentions in the world.
I have really severe quick episodes of rage, my mother has it too and people tell me that I'm faking it. I can cycle through every emotion possible in one day, varying from anger (my most common), happy, sad, horny, energized, etc. I've been dealing with it since BEFORE I was born. emotions can be a hazard to unborn children in the womb and I almost died due to anger, I don't know how but it's true. in 15 now and it's easier, I'm on a depression medication called Prozac or fluxotine and it very rarely helps bipolar in others, but it's a life saver for me.
Mania sucks. I've never felt euphoric while manic. Not being able to sleep for months on and feeling nothing but anger and sadness is not as fun as you make it sound.
That's how it was for me. My manic episodes were never euphoric. I was always extremely angry, anything could set me off. Probably the worse feeling in the world.
So try to hear this one till end: ruclips.net/video/ncwUdOiqibs/видео.html If you feel burn, want to vomit, headache, or you can't control your body. That's signs and symtomps possessed by satan (jinn). Because, I don't believe that bipolar is exist. I can say this because my friend has been cured long time ago, by someone who can read that. (Usually you need meet the reciter face to face)
I live with 2 people who are bipolar, and have several family members that are.Each person is different, but this video does a good job on a touching about what bipolar means.There are meds out there, and they aren't all new. Some people can function with medication, and in some cases, like the case with my husband, can't He's been to different hospitals.The only thing that helps are ECTs which the hospital won't do because they gave him the wrong drug when they did it last & his heart stopped.
i love being bipolar!!it makes me enjoy all my emotions !!!even when it has cause me many troubles, i was even in jail! but i don't know another way to live, cause i was born bipolar, my first symtoms were shown when i was just 4 years old .
I have family who have told me I don't display any symptoms of a bipolar sufferer but I sometimes feel at a loss with certain things. Never pondered the thought of suicide and I still work to keep myself focused, do well in school, maintain a healthy diet, spend a lot of time in the gym, do all I can to assure I'm healthy. wouldn't say I hate certain things but I seem to self-diagnose myself bipolar even if I do not go on frivolous shopping sprees, run on little to no sleep, change my dietary habits for the worse (eat less, more, unhealthy) but the whole mental spectrum confuses me. I'll feel happy a few days and depressed/confused for a couple, never months like she described. wish I had some answers but people don't assume I'm bipolar. I guess it's a form of teen angst
Everybody needs to be aware of the parameters of mental health / disorders, the same way most of us can identify a physical injury. All of us as a society have to live with these problems and we should be educated about them, for the benefit of everybody!
I'm not sure how much bipolar disorder comes from within and how much comes from without. I know I've been in a job I don't like for 29 years, and am finally leaving after the first of the year. Just knowing that I don't have to go back to that fucking little hellhole makes me feel better :D
Hello I have had manic depression(bipolar disorder) since age 17 now 49 and it has been a very difficult road with medications,mood swings,depression,mania and to top it all off panic disorder but never give up or completely give in to this illness things usually do get better Best to Everyone Gary Allen (facebook)
me too ...i quit smoking to ganja...was making me paranoid. i have the best doctor in ther world that warned me about it. She was right. I LOVE ALL YOU GUYS WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!
Well I don't know about other people but I had therapy almost everyday along with medication so they didn't JUST give me medication to help. They wanted to make sure I was getting my life back together and keeping those negative thoughts away. I think that therapy and talking to other people going through the same things helped me way more than the medication ever would.
I've been diagnosed with anxiety, depression and ADD through the years. I recently received a diagnosis for bipolar disorder. The second one sounds just like me and explains the other illnesses. :(
@DollzintheUK not necessarily, but bipolar type two can be characterised by more depressive episodes than 'up' ones, and there is also a difference between mania (which is usually type 1), and hypomania (more attributed to type 2). I'm not an expert, just a chick living with type 2. Also, the very fact that you say you can control them might point to you not having bipolar (I can 'tramp down' my feelings, but never truly control them, iykwim). Hope this helps a bit...
though ive never been diagnosed, ever since living with a bp guy a few years ago i've though i was too (to a lesser extent, maybe cyclothymia vs his bp1 or 2). I gotta say I wouldnt want to be drugged. the depression sucks, but over the years ive figured out how to pull myself out of it, to an extent. and the highs are great, though I do feel like i'm pulling on the reins of a bolting horse sometimes, so as not to freak people out too much.
I'm 15 and was diagnosed with bipolar 2 when I was 14. I had most if not all the symptoms of it. Before I was diagnosed I spent a week in a mental hospital where they thought I had just plain depression because I was depressed, cutting, and having severe thoughts of suicide and had attempted. After therapy and many appointments with my psychiatrist, she diagnosed me with bipolar. At school people notice my mood swings and point it out. It's annoying because nobody understands...
was she just reading this out of the DSM? No respect. Even the NIMH is not using the DSM V, and the UK NHS is moving away from it as well. What about a compassionate model of healing trauma so that the patient can get better instead of years on brain damaging drugs like SSRI's or zyprexa/seroquel, etc. If you look at the history (Robert Whitaker, Mad in America) you will see that bipolars used to get better, not be trapped in a web of drugs meant to effectively lobotomize the patient.
@shanyin1234 yes, agree. And if you find meditation too intense, yoga will have similar benefits (with good effects for body also) especially if done in a meditative way (ie focussing on the breathing, body, sounds etc)
My last mania was a horrible nightmare. I almost stayed secluded for a few years from people who witnessed it. I have faithfully taken my meds since. I will never experience that if I can help it. I also haven't thought about suicide with this new med. How sad I fought doing it so many times hanging on by a thread. All over not have that 1 pill. I wholeheartedly agree!!!! No symptoms in 6 years.
@ruterpontesrodrigues No. Atypical antipsychotics such as Seroquel or Zyprexa are often used to treat people with Bipolar I disorder. (These are the same meds that are used to treat psychosis in schizophrenic patients.)
I am manic for a month then depressed for weeks or months. I don't know what Bipolar Disorder it is. I get lot of Suicidal thoughts. But I've stopped visiting psychiatrist. I am tired of taking medications as I was taking it since last 2 years. Now I don't care what happens to me.
+Pavan Obhan Good luck being med free. I got diagnosed with bipolar 2 times, then they were 'assessing' for a 3rd time to see if I could be diagnosed with it again. Makes no sense to me but they never got to actually helping me so given up on them.. Fuck their meds. I feel like if this condition kills me its ok. :/ Anyway I hope you find some peace being med free and can control it.
i always thought i had bipolar disorder having difficulty "staying normal" as i have periods of real exaltation, excitement, hyperactivity and joy (with no reason at all) to the point of suffering from it (hard to explain but i realise while i'm excited that people tire of watching me jump everywhere)i feel like i have way too much energy and it aches.Then comes a sudden melancholia,and i'm just so down,without reason, and i feel like nothing is going to be good,and that i'm worthless...
@TisiLadyM i actually find that it fucks me up.... makes my thoughts go even faster.... if your doing this i suggest knowing exactly what your are taking. body highs wont cause as much racing thoughts so stick with indicas
What's hard is having this disorder with chronic anxiety, plus going on shopping sprees, than return the items because we no longer being interested in the items purchased.
I've seen psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, attende.. suicidal depression groups, and have gone through CBT a few times in the past 12 years. They have repeated suggested that it's bipolar disorder. Usually I'm extremely down and then I find myself feeling like I can do anything. Whatever it is, it has destroyed all of my relationships w/ people, b/c they say they can't handle my mood swings.Don't feel sorry for me though! I finally told my psychiatrist that death is my only way out
Hi, I'm bipolar, I diagnosed last year. I fight with depression since I was 18. I tried to harm my self twice. Now I'm on medication. Bipolar disorder is a serious illness. We must aware the people about the symptoms. I fight depression and bipolar disorder every day, it's a tough illness...
Some people thinks it is funny to have Bipolar and even wish to have it. They would not think it is funny when they r so badly depressed!! I have Bipolar type 2 mixed with Borderline. I go through stages where i cannot do anything then i start to plan my future again for education then pass then fall again. I am feed up with it now!! People though i had 100% borderline but when they understood my pattern and for 4 years of episodes in A ROLL and i got help at my depression stage.
Hey Randall.....update on Keith's dr visit today....He will be totally off all his meds within 10 days providing no major symptoms arise. Dr was impressed with Keith's improvement and even said he didn't think he had ever remembered seeing Keith with a smile on his face. This is a testimony i received yesterday about a young man that has been taking a natural supplement that was designed specifically for mood disorders. Give me a shout. Making a difference 1 person at a time. You gonna be next?
Yes my patterns was all the same time. I had to take tablets now because i was seriously exercising all the time and i mean 3 hours plus i still didn't sleep and even when i feel high i have a mixed side with happy and sad at the same time but i feel that it is a magnet that polls my brain and even when it does that it don't have full blown mania. People with Bipolar 2 don't go through full blown mania. They go through mixed thinking good and bad and being polled by a magnet that will not let
@nheitz on the car and away from other things, or how much its gonna cost him... if he feels the same about doing the project, it would seem he's still at a high part of his episode. But if he gives any doubts, he's starting to come down. Something like that would keep you envolved and also give you insight into his frame of mind. I have b.p. and i check my self like that to see how far off ive gone. As soon as my perspectives change, I start to level out. Hope this kinda helps :)
I developed it when I was eleven. I had bipolar two that turned into mixed bipolar the longer I went unmedicated and when I started having delusions was when my mom finally decided to take me to the doctor... As if my spells of depression weren't evidence enough that I needed one...
Honest question -- as a female, how can you tell if you have cyclothamia or have hormonal mood swings? I tend to have brief (2-4) days of mild "mania," then a "normal" or more emotionally balanced hiatus, then dip toward depression for a couple weeks. I also thought this was likely hormonal, but I'm also diagnosed with chronic depression, anxiety, and ADHD and take medications for these. Perhaps I've been misdiagnosed? Not sure what other viable treatment options there would be even if I were. Just curious.
+Marie Carie Hypomania doesn't feel like hyperactivity. It is maddening, you sometimes wonder if you're going insane, other times it just feels like the world is going in slow motion and everyone around you is super slow and can't think at the speed you can. You get racing thoughts, flights of ideas, start making big plans like maybe to move country or a sudden big job change... I don't think that'd be very similar to being hormonal. Unless you have PMDD which is something else entirely.
N M it's that way because we all habe problems we habe to deal with to varying degrees and people oftengo through the same things. and the disorders are just a list of symptoms people can get. Thats also why people show different symptoms tondifferent degrees and thigs can get tricky to diagnose and treat at times- because everyone is different. But we are all also similar and the brain reacts in similar ways to different things, that's why we can predict certain things and diagnose and treat things.
@nheitz in my opinion, just spending some time with him when he's in an episode would be a good start. Don't confront him, unless he is seriously harming himself or others. That might make him push you away, but you can offer alternative views. One thing you could try is seeing if he feels the same way about a decision over a few days. Ex: he wants to buy an old car and make a project out of it. you would in conversation mention the mess it could create, or how much time he's gonna be spending
I have Bipolar I and i agree it does suck. I'm only 16 in my JUNIOR year and it's pretty much at the point of ruining any chance of me having a secure future.
Throughout most of the term at school this year, I just don't give a fuck about my life. In tests at school, I deliberately write sarcastic comments and irrelevant questions next to the answer which is deliberately wrong. I'm cocky with the teachers and at break and lunch, I'm "Weird" and "hyper" as my friends say I am. I apparently have a short temper but I was sexually abused as a child and it may be the stress of my past causing my "snaps" as I call them. My ''snaps" consist of me: Screaming and shouting, violent acts, thought of homicide and sudden turns of suicidal thoughts. My mood and thoughts can be influenced by the music I listen to, the people around me and my surroundings and curtain small things such as: Where someone touches me (like on the head, shoulder etc.), hearing a wolf howl, what I eat or what group of friends I decide to hand around with. I can break down into fits of laughter or crying just by someone saying a certain word or making a certain noise. I have no idea what's happening with my life... :S
Leonie Mounsey go back to your thought processes that allowed you to create a working perspective that allowed you to be yourself. Chemical changes occur naturally as you grow older and the changes may have caused you a fresh emotional response to your memories. Rebuild a perspective that allows you to resume normal function, by separating out your emotions and re-learning the necessary acceptance of the damage done. Abuse can cause your destruction, but only if you let it. You have a life ahead of you and the nightmares that you have lived through will become faded but will retain a source of self solution that you can pass on. Be patient with yourself and know that you are not on your own. God bless.
I like my manic episodes. The last one I had, I slept for maybe 10-15 hours throughout that entire week, and was excessively energetic for about 90% of the day, every day. Also I've had few moments in my life where I was in a better mood than that. I crashed quite epically after my best friend tried to kill herself, but it was still one of the most awesome weeks I've ever had... Honestly, it's worth it. The depression is hell, but it at least gives me more insight to work with for my music.
I have terrible lows, crying for no apparent reason,not being able to stay awake in the day yet racing thoughts won't let me sleep at night.I hear derogatory voices and occasionally hallucinate. I have OCD.I hate going out alone and I hate being alone although I feel like I need to be alone.I get very agitated and angry. When I'm manic I talk way too much and too fast. I'm in so much debt because I'm not good with money.I spend lots on my kids n hubby but not on myself cause of guilt. Continued.
I find my self at times more angry than most, but that is because i have an anger problem. I can tell i have adhd still due to the fact that when people talk to me i have to catch myself, because my mind will start wonder wither i want it to or not. I truely do feel bad for those kids that do have add adhd, and depression. No child should be depressed. But i agree that alot of kids act out to get attention, or something else is bothering them
I can't take it anymore, worrying about WTF my bipolar friend is thinking, and constantly "walking on egg shells," wondering, why didn't she respond to my text? Is she mad? Is it something I said? Screw it, this is just gonna make ME depressed trying to worry about the friendship.
+FrankGarrett316 If you don't accept the way the person is, it's not even friendship in first place. The ups and downs of bipolar disorder are caused by the central nervous system working the wrong way (either too fast or too slow, making the person irrational or depressed - this is a genetic thing, not a mindful choice). It is the very same part of the brain that causes epilepsy seizures (in fact, the mood stabilizer given to bipolars is an anti-convulsant used for epilepsy). It's not at all about "worrying what the other person is thinking", it's not like if the bipolar person is "doing it", it just happens, 100 % like epileptic seizures. Not fun. But if this is enough for you to be unable to take it anymore (even after informing yourself about bipolar, like, watching this video), than just leave the person alone. Leave the person alone because as a matter of fact, you weren't friends in first place if you are so needy/self centered in the "friendship" that you can't accept the way a "friend" is...(it's not that you need to make special efforts anyway...bipolars are not retarded, mean, evil or anything...) just leave the person alone with his/her misery like all you "strong and healthy" people usually do ;)
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Interesting. I'm trying to learn about this. I'm a night shift supervisor at a large industrial facility, and one of my crew appears to be bipolar. I've known him for 25 years. Sometimes he's extremely happy and child like. When he's happy about something, he smiles and clinches his fists and says..."Yaaay!" Other times he gets angry for no apparent reason. He's never, ever in the middle. He's so predictable. Every time he gets mad at me, I stop talking to him. He will walk away and I wait. About 15 minutes later, I'm saying to myself......"Right about........Now." And here he comes.....Head down and sad. He extends his arm towards me, with a Hawaiian Punch in hand. "I'm sorry." "God bless you." I work shoulder to shoulder with everyone on my crew. In Johnny's case, I've learned how to deal with him. He needs his space.
You my man are a good supervisor
People, if you are bipolar, you will know it. There is a huge difference between normal highs and lows and bipolar disorder.
Not necessarily. I was misdiagnosed with depression for years because I have mixed moods/agitated depression. Everybody just thought I was a raging asshole. It wasn't until later on when it got worse that we put 2 and 2 together.
+Meredith Williams same thing happened to me with diagnosis. Did you find anything helps you? My doctor is talking about meds, my previous history with meds makes me hesitate but at the same time I feel like I have no choice, hope it works.
I kinda agree with your comment, mainly because most people know when they are feeling abnormally low or high but if its all you have ever felt then you wont know what "normal" mood swings feel like so you may now know it.
@jess jesse heh r/ihadastroke
its annoying how EVERYONE is saying they are bipolar but they have only seen this vidoe.
welp..I guess it's time for a visit to the psychiatrist
Same
Yeah 😔
+Doorba Lakhchaura DON'T ITS A TRAP THEY WILL TAKE AWAY YOUR DREAMS IF YOU KEEP MANIC ALL THE TIME, AND IF YOU DON'T FEEL DEPRESSED AT ALL!
Daniel Schultz relax... I'm not going to a psychiatrist :P
+cwoolfork you're going or not ?
Diagnosed with bipolar type 1 at 23.Have been a disability ever since because of it.Life sucks right along with my morning dose of Abilify,Celexa,and Prozac.I wish I could be normal but I must've missed that train...Good Luck everyone.
bro there's no such thing as normal your blessed to be alive and not 6 feet under :)
These are horrible drugs. Such drugs Ruined many years of my life.
Read book anatomy of an epidemic by Robert Whitacker. And Wake up pls.
There is no chemical imbalance
I've been diagnosed with bipolar for almost 4 years but others have been noticing signs for 5 years before my diagnosis. There are still family members who don't understand my illness so this a great video to show to them to try to make them understand.
Jeeze people, please don't suddenly think you are bipolar just because you saw some video on it. Bipolar has become glamorized. Suddenly everyone and their grandma is suddenly saying they have it. Having bipolar is hell, and you'll know it if you really have it. I knew there was something wrong LONG before I was diagnosed.
My manic episodes are weird as hell. I just turn into this massive sarcastic clown-like person. The delusions can be quite fun however the lows are absolutely terrible.
Twizzzle I know. Do you get cocky and deliberately make things silly and/or dirty? I do, then I get butterflies and start to do reckless things.
Leonie Mounsey Yeah haha, I experience pretty strong delusions bordering on grandeur. I had a pretty big episode a few months ago where I thought i was some sort of secret agent -- long story short I ended up playing basketball with security at my local hospital dressed in a suit and several layers of clothes. The whole experience is quite comical in retrospect.
Twizzzle hahaaa welcome to the world of bipolar hahaa I got Bipolar 1 and I have never done that lol that sounds like fun lol
I get weird laugh attacks that turn into uncontrollable sobbing that can last for hours along with the feeling that nothing is real and I'm a dreamy fog.
Omg me too
I recommend psychotherapy in a clinic/clinical hospital attached to a University (if possible). Art therapy helped me a lot, KIP therapy helped me a lot, too. KIP means you have to relax, go into semi-unconscious mood, and imagine a pond/meadow etc., and what you see in it/feel attached to the picture which will come alive through your unconscious united with your conscious, and your thoughts/fears/anxieties hidden in your subconscious will come alive. It is very hard and often makes your feel bad before you feel better. Do not do this at home, only with a trained psychotherapist. ;) The person will help you face yourself.
What is helping me to do something creative, like narrations, - I' m even on a CD as narrator, thanks to one of my friend - , voicing - giving voices to different characters of manga, custom campaigns in computer games (fanmade ones) not voiced before. Also, drawing, writing poems, reading helping to me. Also, it is hard to forget traumas you imagine as traumas or real ones. I had them, like being beaten in broad daylight in street, and nobody helped, not one people out of fear and ignorance. And I was humbled at bus in broad daylight for 3 months, nobody helped, and evil persons followed me. I was told it happens etc. by professional docs/therapists and policemen, nothing can be done. Plus, I have other problems, and people do not tolerate med-taking, physical illnesses and other stuff like these, so had to learn to enjoy life alone. Plus, I have to protect me and them from them/me. Sometimes I do not even get 30 mins of conversation with people through net a day, or not even from my parents. But creative stuff is good, and helping others through listening to their problems, woes, sorrows, joys, sharing it with them (maybe through net first). And sure, you can also learn singing techniques, languages and many other stuff from net. IT IS HARD, I KNOW, I HAVE TO CREATE MY OWN HEAVEN/HAVEN OF JOY EVERY DAY, BUT IN THE END, SUCCESS WILL COME TO PASS, AND YOU WILL BE PROUD OF YOURSELVES.
This is absolutely the most concise, efficient, and effective explanation of bipolar disorder I have ever heard by a medical doctor. Hats off to Dr. Nina Moadel!!
Dr. Jay Carter
I'm 37 & was diagnosed @ 18 with bipolar 1... My life has been a crazy roller coaster ride!
It's okay lovely. Honestly you have a lot of the same symptoms I did. I know exactly what you mean when you say you're scared to tell your parents. It took me a year of depression and the cutting to finally tell my mom that I couldn't take it anymore and she got me the help I needed. Its been rough trying to get her to understand what I was feeling but it was worth telling her. I think you should def tell your parents how you're feeling especially since there's a history of it in your family.
Very informative-I completely understand my illness no,w opposed to how the doctor explained it to me. Thank you so much.
I must have rapid cycling, for the longest time my dr thought I had depression and anxiety, however I have been re-diagnosed as rapid cycling with anxiety disorder. I'm finally on a stabilizer and can actually function. I still have some symptoms, however I am able to control them now rather than flying into rage, depression, or becoming manic
Rapid cycling bipolar disorder, panic disorder, epilepsy & contamination fear OCD. All very neurological, physiological & emotional in their behaviors.
best to seek treatment by medication & cbd/talk therapy.
Quality of life generally increases with treatment, months to years to fully become functional if the conditions are acute.
Good luck, fellow fighters! ♡
As it was suggested above - it is textbook stuff, really. And well, almost every mentally healthy person has their bad downs or awesome highs. I was so far diagnosed with cyclothymia, just because i can't "sustain" my episodes to longer periods of time and i'm too young (21), but hey, i can admit that i've been delusional, i've been in such bad fits of rage over nothing that not only i hurt myself, but also others. i have tons of scars and people are literally scared of me when i'm manic.
I almost always have mixed moods, and believe me when I say that they feel like getting your head stuck in Satan's toilet.
I like this description lol. I am using this!
Lithium.
Same. For whatever reason I seem to be in mixed episodes the most, depressive episodes the second most, and manic or hypomanic episodes the least.
Very clear and useful upload. I suffer with cyclothymia and the depressive episodes along with anxiety are worse than the highs which do not happen very often. The lady is correct with my type of bi- polar. The worst aspect is that the lows make me feel suicidal. Thankyou for this very useful upload, I hope it helps a lot of sufferers.
I had been experiencing and reporting all these symptoms to my GP and Psychiatrists for over 4 years, all while my life was turning into a mess / nightmare, and they thought I was just experiencing stress related depression, they would even suggest me to go out with friends and have a few beers to relax, despite me telling them that alcohol would drive me crazy, and the only thing they prescribed were pills of serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SRI), an anti-depressant, which caused severe manic episodes and worsened my situation further.... until last week, when I had another massive manic episode and stayed awake almost constantly for about 9 days / nights in a row, I ended up in the hospital and BINGO, they finally diagnosed me with Bipolar, as soon as I took a mood stabilyzer / anti-convulsant, the whole damn thing cooled down and I started feeling normal again within 1 day! So if you are reading here and people (including doctors) seem not to listen / undertand what's going on, make sure to insist and to remark how dangerous your moods can be for you and others and to push to look into this further, and do not accept to be dismissed immediately with generic depression.
jess jesse I know what you mean but this is not the case :-) I have always self-medicated myself without ingesting anything (for example, doing meditation and eating healthy food homegrown by my grandpa). However, what I am experiencing has been experienced by other people also in the far past, when pharmacy pills were not available, and I know as a matter of fact that many members of my family have the same issue, including my grandpa and and some other ancestors that are not among us anymore, people that lived in a rural island where pharmacies didn't even exist until 50 years ago :-)
You know not everything is BULLSHIT! I grew up in a very abusive, alcoholic childhood and I think that is what caused me to be diagnosed as bipolar and manic depressive disorder.I have been plagued most of my life with thoughts something bad happening to me or someone I love.I have had episodes of anger,Thoughts that are bad. I remember as a child it would rain and I would cry and become severely depressed or if it was sunny I be really happy.I have had issues with drugs alcohol,cigarettes,and suicide.I have been depressed and hospitalized.I am 40years old now and I have many more problems but, Thanks to God I'm alive.The people who say that this is not a disorder Walk 40 years in my shoes than tell me this is not a disorder.Till then try not to hurt others with your comment because, rather you believe that this is a disorder or not,Trust me it Is real.
Excellent description. Clear, concise, and useful. Dr. Jay Carter
Thanks, I was lucky because many years ago I walked in the same place were many great men of the past have walked and I read the aphorism written on the temple of Apollo for over 2400 years already, "Know thyself". I realized not only that I know nothing about my true self but I also decided never to allow anyone to tell me what myself is or what it can be. Meditation, nature and sun gazing will help u reach ur inner silence where the true voice of yourself can be heard again:)Everyone can do it
Only discovered i was bi polar after my first trip to county jail. The help one gets for it is amazing, i feel like a whole new person after one year
Wow, exactly how I feel. This happens to me all the time. I tell myself that if I didn't have this then I'd never know whats it like to be so happy :) I think we don't have necessary " filters " for our emotions, they are very raw I think. But don't be sad just know that there is someone somewhere who feels what you feel..You are not worthless, you are a nice human being who feels enormosly...Merry Xmas :)
Nice job with this one!
Bipolar is ruining my life..
Dude no. Go to a PROFESSIONAL!!!
Yeah same bro
Completely agree with you, that's why I said in my previous comments that I do believe that there are people with serious illnesses who DO need help. But there are people who use the disease as an excuse for their unfit behavior and it becomes a way for them to run away from their problems.
I have diagnosed anxiety disorders and undiagnosed depression but honestly bipolar disorder sounds too much like me. I go through the phases where I'm extremely irritable, reckless behavior, aggravated or I have a sudden increase in self esteem sometimes with these symptoms. Then the other times I suffer from depression which includes all symptoms. Sometimes I'm neither. My anxiety isn't so bad those days and it's all pretty neutral but at this point I'm going to have to talk to my therapist about it because I just don't know
I just been crying watching this.
Rapid cycling....it is terrible!!!
Rustin Wilson My daughter is also rapid cycling with mixed episodes and It is scary and horrible. I don’t agree with this presenter that BP1 is the worst...rapid cycling with mixed episodes is awful. My heart goes out to anyone suffering from this awful illness 🙏
i am bipolar II. my hypomania includes reckless shopping , things i dont need at all. i have experience intense rage. i have tried to punch through walls, bite my lips to the extent of bleeding, pull my hair out in chunks, even tried to slam a door shut on my hand to name a few. my depression is debilitating . i cannot get out of bed, cannot eat and have tried to take my life on two occassions, ended up in the icu on one of them . i have been on a combinations of drugs for over 6 years now,it has made me stable but i still have episodes. its difficult now because we are trying to conceive but i want to be drug free for conception and pregnancy but i want to be in the best mental health possible to take care of the baby if and when it arrives
I know I have Bi-Polar II, OCD, PSTD, and am borderline schizophrenia. I am finally basically controlled on medicines, but it took a while to find this all out and find the right medicines to work. Thank GOD I'm not always depressed and wishing I'd die anymore. As I remember my childhood I can see my mom had mental illness and she passed her genes onto me. She tried to self medicate with alcohol, which did nothing but give her liver death at 56. I am 56 now and have passed those same rotten genes onto my children. I have a son who lives on the streets and is a heroin addict. He just got out of treatment in February this year. He was doing fine until he ran out of his zubzal and in the area where I live there were no doctors who would subscribe that to him. So he ended up back on the streets and back on the heroin. It really angers me that my son is out somewhere lost in drug land because doctors can't write a stupid prescription without a certain license.
I am disabled and live in an old messed up trailer park. The stupid managers wouldn't even let my sick son live with us in our trailer. My income from SSDI is 692.00 a month and when my son was here both of our cars were broken down so I couldn't even take him out of town to get him the meds he needs. It literally breaks my heart that I cannot help my precious son. I am so broke it's not even a joke!!! I worked hard my whole life, and finally graduated from Jr. College with an AS in Medical Professions and a LVN, I went to school worked, and tried my best to take care of my 5 kids for 10 years to get it. I've lost my license now, because I got so sick I couldn't work any more. I have a ton of medical problems as well as mental problems.
I've said all this stuff just to let others know mental illness is not a joke! It's not all in your head that you can control: Mind over Matter so to speak, my eldest son, the one I spoke of, and my youngest daughter have attempted suicide so many times. It's even started to affect my youngest son. And there is not a damn thing I can do about it. Maybe if I had a few grand lying around so I can get a dependable car, and get out of this Gustopo ran trailer park,and get a doctor who's not afraid to use his pen. But my husband only makes minimum wage and I'm on SSDI and we barely make it from one month to the next.
But you yourself, get help if you feel you need it. And watch your kids, if you see them doing stuff like washing their hands all the time. And asking you how you get different diseases, or want to talk to you and then just can't sit and be patient until he gains the confidence to tell you.GOD there is so much more, I hope you've read this far, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE get help!
I can be very outgoing depending on my mood :o. I like being alone. But I know if I'm alone too long, my thoughts happen. So I have to be around others to distract me from that. But I also know I have my limits
Im not one to diagnose myself but i have to have some kind of bi polar depression...i latch out into manic episodes, do or say things i normally wouldn't, then a min later i feel guilty, confused, and i cry because i regret what i just did and i feel like i have no control when im in the manic episodes.. I def have depression..my libido is gone, can't concentrate..and yeah pretty much everything she said under depression..
Yea me to, the way you explained it is exactly how i feel, you do have bipolar disorder then.
Lol here are the RUclips doctors
I have these strongly intense racing thought states that happen in which I can't focus and struggle to verbalize what I'm saying, although this seems sometimes too intense and wares out my brain, I feel like it's the place I get a lot of deep thinking done and sometimes I feel like I benefit from these manic episodes only just realised what happens to me could be bipolar but honestly it isn't something I'll look to treat
I actually went as far as wrapping one of my thick belts around my neck one night as i just wanted to get out, and wanted the thoughts in my head to stop. :(
I'm seeing my doctor tmr to get some more meds and talk.
My Mum has been supportive, and i have sent her vids from YT to help her understand what i go through.
this stuff is good to know!!! help us get this out there!!
It does hurt. I didn't know what was happening to me. I couldn't stand the way people would look at me, it made me not want to talk to them, and that made them look at me even more strangely, all because I was different. I wasn't what they expected me to be. The problems I was dealing with just became more stressful because I felt alone. No one understood. I learned how to control it, though.
I wish you all the best intentions in the world.
This is a very informative video and it really helps explain the disorder with some great charts and things. Thanks for sharing this.
live your life...guard your heart ...never tap closed or quench the mania
I have really severe quick episodes of rage, my mother has it too and people tell me that I'm faking it. I can cycle through every emotion possible in one day, varying from anger (my most common), happy, sad, horny, energized, etc. I've been dealing with it since BEFORE I was born. emotions can be a hazard to unborn children in the womb and I almost died due to anger, I don't know how but it's true. in 15 now and it's easier, I'm on a depression medication called Prozac or fluxotine and it very rarely helps bipolar in others, but it's a life saver for me.
Mania sucks. I've never felt euphoric while manic. Not being able to sleep for months on and feeling nothing but anger and sadness is not as fun as you make it sound.
That's how it was for me. My manic episodes were never euphoric. I was always extremely angry, anything could set me off. Probably the worse feeling in the world.
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So try to hear this one till end:
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If you feel burn, want to vomit, headache, or you can't control your body. That's signs and symtomps
possessed by satan (jinn).
Because, I don't believe that bipolar is exist. I can say this because my friend has been cured long time ago, by someone who can read that. (Usually you need meet the reciter face to face)
I live with 2 people who are bipolar, and have several family members that are.Each person is different, but this video does a good job on a touching about what bipolar means.There are meds out there, and they aren't all new. Some people can function with medication, and in some cases, like the case with my husband, can't He's been to different hospitals.The only thing that helps are ECTs which the hospital won't do because they gave him the wrong drug when they did it last & his heart stopped.
i love being bipolar!!it makes me enjoy all my emotions !!!even when it has cause me many troubles, i was even in jail! but i don't know another way to live, cause i was born bipolar, my first symtoms were shown when i was just 4 years old .
I have family who have told me I don't display any symptoms of a bipolar sufferer but I sometimes feel at a loss with certain things. Never pondered the thought of suicide and I still work to keep myself focused, do well in school, maintain a healthy diet, spend a lot of time in the gym, do all I can to assure I'm healthy. wouldn't say I hate certain things but I seem to self-diagnose myself bipolar even if I do not go on frivolous shopping sprees, run on little to no sleep, change my dietary habits for the worse (eat less, more, unhealthy) but the whole mental spectrum confuses me. I'll feel happy a few days and depressed/confused for a couple, never months like she described. wish I had some answers but people don't assume I'm bipolar. I guess it's a form of teen angst
Good video - keeps us up to date with the research field
Everybody needs to be aware of the parameters of mental health / disorders, the same way most of us can identify a physical injury. All of us as a society have to live with these problems and we should be educated about them, for the benefit of everybody!
I'm not sure how much bipolar disorder comes from within and how much comes from without. I know I've been in a job I don't like for 29 years, and am finally leaving after the first of the year. Just knowing that I don't have to go back to that fucking little hellhole makes me feel better :D
Hello I have had manic depression(bipolar disorder) since age 17 now 49 and it has been a very difficult road with medications,mood swings,depression,mania and to top it all off panic disorder but never give up or completely give in to this illness things usually do get better
Best to Everyone
Gary Allen (facebook)
Nice,Concise & Succinct video. Thanks
me too ...i quit smoking to ganja...was making me paranoid. i have the best doctor in ther world that warned me about it. She was right. I LOVE ALL YOU GUYS WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!
Very well explained!
Well I don't know about other people but I had therapy almost everyday along with medication so they didn't JUST give me medication to help. They wanted to make sure I was getting my life back together and keeping those negative thoughts away. I think that therapy and talking to other people going through the same things helped me way more than the medication ever would.
I've been diagnosed with anxiety, depression and ADD through the years. I recently received a diagnosis for bipolar disorder. The second one sounds just like me and explains the other illnesses. :(
I think I might suffer from bipolar disorder. But I'm not sure if I do. My friend says I do cuz I showed all the symptoms. Greeeaaat...
@DollzintheUK not necessarily, but bipolar type two can be characterised by more depressive episodes than 'up' ones, and there is also a difference between mania (which is usually type 1), and hypomania (more attributed to type 2). I'm not an expert, just a chick living with type 2. Also, the very fact that you say you can control them might point to you not having bipolar (I can 'tramp down' my feelings, but never truly control them, iykwim). Hope this helps a bit...
though ive never been diagnosed, ever since living with a bp guy a few years ago i've though i was too (to a lesser extent, maybe cyclothymia vs his bp1 or 2). I gotta say I wouldnt want to be drugged. the depression sucks, but over the years ive figured out how to pull myself out of it, to an extent. and the highs are great, though I do feel like i'm pulling on the reins of a bolting horse sometimes, so as not to freak people out too much.
Diagnosed with ultradian bipolar: hell on earth but still fighting it like a beast.
I'm 15 and was diagnosed with bipolar 2 when I was 14. I had most if not all the symptoms of it. Before I was diagnosed I spent a week in a mental hospital where they thought I had just plain depression because I was depressed, cutting, and having severe thoughts of suicide and had attempted. After therapy and many appointments with my psychiatrist, she diagnosed me with bipolar. At school people notice my mood swings and point it out. It's annoying because nobody understands...
I have bipolar II disorder with mixed episodes. it really sucks.
was she just reading this out of the DSM? No respect. Even the NIMH is not using the DSM V, and the UK NHS is moving away from it as well. What about a compassionate model of healing trauma so that the patient can get better instead of years on brain damaging drugs like SSRI's or zyprexa/seroquel, etc. If you look at the history (Robert Whitaker, Mad in America) you will see that bipolars used to get better, not be trapped in a web of drugs meant to effectively lobotomize the patient.
@shanyin1234 yes, agree. And if you find meditation too intense, yoga will have similar benefits (with good effects for body also) especially if done in a meditative way (ie focussing on the breathing, body, sounds etc)
@tooldrummer you are so right, i used to think the same thing and tell people the same thing. Now I know that I was hypomanic for a year.
Very informative stuff on Bipolar!
My last mania was a horrible nightmare. I almost stayed secluded for a few years from people who witnessed it. I have faithfully taken my meds since. I will never experience that if I can help it. I also haven't thought about suicide with this new med. How sad I fought doing it so many times hanging on by a thread. All over not have that 1 pill. I wholeheartedly agree!!!! No symptoms in 6 years.
Many thanks
I have Bipolar 1. I was diagnosed when I was 12 but had this since I was 10.
@ruterpontesrodrigues No. Atypical antipsychotics such as Seroquel or Zyprexa are often used to treat people with Bipolar I disorder. (These are the same meds that are used to treat psychosis in schizophrenic patients.)
You should all read/
A DIFFERENT OUTLOOK ON BIPOLAR DISORDER-UPS AND DOWNS TO BUDDHA STATE on AMAZON
i feel u bro, i think iv got it as swell but i haven't been diagnosed yet
this was very helpful and informative thankyou
Thanks for the video. I am wondering what the best medications are for this....?
I am manic for a month then depressed for weeks or months. I don't know what Bipolar Disorder it is.
I get lot of Suicidal thoughts.
But I've stopped visiting psychiatrist. I am tired of taking medications as I was taking it since last 2 years.
Now I don't care what happens to me.
+Pavan Obhan Good luck being med free.
I got diagnosed with bipolar 2 times, then they were 'assessing' for a 3rd time to see if I could be diagnosed with it again.
Makes no sense to me but they never got to actually helping me so given up on them.. Fuck their meds.
I feel like if this condition kills me its ok. :/
Anyway I hope you find some peace being med free and can control it.
i always thought i had bipolar disorder having difficulty "staying normal" as i have periods of real exaltation, excitement, hyperactivity and joy (with no reason at all) to the point of suffering from it (hard to explain but i realise while i'm excited that people tire of watching me jump everywhere)i feel like i have way too much energy and it aches.Then comes a sudden melancholia,and i'm just so down,without reason, and i feel like nothing is going to be good,and that i'm worthless...
@TisiLadyM i actually find that it fucks me up.... makes my thoughts go even faster.... if your doing this i suggest knowing exactly what your are taking. body highs wont cause as much racing thoughts so stick with indicas
What's hard is having this disorder with chronic anxiety, plus going on shopping sprees, than return the items because we no longer being interested in the items purchased.
I've seen psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, attende.. suicidal depression groups, and have gone through CBT a few times in the past 12 years. They have repeated suggested that it's bipolar disorder. Usually I'm extremely down and then I find myself feeling like I can do anything. Whatever it is, it has destroyed all of my relationships w/ people, b/c they say they can't handle my mood swings.Don't feel sorry for me though! I finally told my psychiatrist that death is my only way out
Hi, I'm bipolar, I diagnosed last year. I fight with depression since I was 18. I tried to harm my self twice. Now I'm on medication. Bipolar disorder is a serious illness. We must aware the people about the symptoms. I fight depression and bipolar disorder every day, it's a tough illness...
Some people thinks it is funny to have Bipolar and even wish to have it. They would not think it is funny when they r so badly depressed!! I have Bipolar type 2 mixed with Borderline. I go through stages where i cannot do anything then i start to plan my future again for education then pass then fall again. I am feed up with it now!! People though i had 100% borderline but when they understood my pattern and for 4 years of episodes in A ROLL and i got help at my depression stage.
Hey Randall.....update on Keith's dr visit today....He will be totally off all his meds within 10 days providing no major symptoms arise. Dr was impressed with Keith's improvement and even said he didn't think he had ever remembered seeing Keith with a smile on his face. This is a testimony i received yesterday about a young man that has been taking a natural supplement that was designed specifically for mood disorders. Give me a shout. Making a difference 1 person at a time. You gonna be next?
actually it is an awakening to some
Yes my patterns was all the same time. I had to take tablets now because i was seriously exercising all the time and i mean 3 hours plus i still didn't sleep and even when i feel high i have a mixed side with happy and sad at the same time but i feel that it is a magnet that polls my brain and even when it does that it don't have full blown mania. People with Bipolar 2 don't go through full blown mania. They go through mixed thinking good and bad and being polled by a magnet that will not let
@nheitz on the car and away from other things, or how much its gonna cost him... if he feels the same about doing the project, it would seem he's still at a high part of his episode. But if he gives any doubts, he's starting to come down.
Something like that would keep you envolved and also give you insight into his frame of mind. I have b.p. and i check my self like that to see how far off ive gone. As soon as my perspectives change, I start to level out.
Hope this kinda helps :)
I developed it when I was eleven. I had bipolar two that turned into mixed bipolar the longer I went unmedicated and when I started having delusions was when my mom finally decided to take me to the doctor... As if my spells of depression weren't evidence enough that I needed one...
i think the best thing about knowing you're bipolar is that when you're depressed you know there will be a time when you feel amazing and invincible
Honest question -- as a female, how can you tell if you have cyclothamia or have hormonal mood swings? I tend to have brief (2-4) days of mild "mania," then a "normal" or more emotionally balanced hiatus, then dip toward depression for a couple weeks. I also thought this was likely hormonal, but I'm also diagnosed with chronic depression, anxiety, and ADHD and take medications for these. Perhaps I've been misdiagnosed? Not sure what other viable treatment options there would be even if I were. Just curious.
+Marie Carie Hypomania doesn't feel like hyperactivity. It is maddening, you sometimes wonder if you're going insane, other times it just feels like the world is going in slow motion and everyone around you is super slow and can't think at the speed you can.
You get racing thoughts, flights of ideas, start making big plans like maybe to move country or a sudden big job change...
I don't think that'd be very similar to being hormonal.
Unless you have PMDD which is something else entirely.
There's a disorder for pretty much everything, so much that it should be strange to be considered completely "normal"
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N M are you sifferong from a case of "normal personality disorder?"
N M it's that way because we all habe problems we habe to deal with to varying degrees and people oftengo through the same things. and the disorders are just a list of symptoms people can get. Thats also why people show different symptoms tondifferent degrees and thigs can get tricky to diagnose and treat at times- because everyone is different. But we are all also similar and the brain reacts in similar ways to different things, that's why we can predict certain things and diagnose and treat things.
thank you
I thought that immediately, too.
Nice, informative video. She has a cute speaking voice.
@nheitz in my opinion, just spending some time with him when he's in an episode would be a good start. Don't confront him, unless he is seriously harming himself or others. That might make him push you away, but you can offer alternative views. One thing you could try is seeing if he feels the same way about a decision over a few days. Ex: he wants to buy an old car and make a project out of it. you would in conversation mention the mess it could create, or how much time he's gonna be spending
And plus I can control my mania IF I WANT!
I have Bipolar I and i agree it does suck. I'm only 16 in my JUNIOR year and it's pretty much at the point of ruining any chance of me having a secure future.
very interesting.
Do you have any videos about parents with this issue?
Roxanne O'Hara your email ??
roxanne1ohara@gmail.com
Throughout most of the term at school this year, I just don't give a fuck about my life. In tests at school, I deliberately write sarcastic comments and irrelevant questions next to the answer which is deliberately wrong. I'm cocky with the teachers and at break and lunch, I'm "Weird" and "hyper" as my friends say I am. I apparently have a short temper but I was sexually abused as a child and it may be the stress of my past causing my "snaps" as I call them. My ''snaps" consist of me: Screaming and shouting, violent acts, thought of homicide and sudden turns of suicidal thoughts. My mood and thoughts can be influenced by the music I listen to, the people around me and my surroundings and curtain small things such as: Where someone touches me (like on the head, shoulder etc.), hearing a wolf howl, what I eat or what group of friends I decide to hand around with. I can break down into fits of laughter or crying just by someone saying a certain word or making a certain noise.
I have no idea what's happening with my life... :S
Leonie Mounsey The terms in my school are about 1 or 2 months too so...
Leonie Mounsey go back to your thought processes that allowed you to create a working perspective that allowed you to be yourself. Chemical changes occur naturally as you grow older and the changes may have caused you a fresh emotional response to your memories. Rebuild a perspective that allows you to resume normal function, by separating out your emotions and re-learning the necessary acceptance of the damage done. Abuse can cause your destruction, but only if you let it. You have a life ahead of you and the nightmares that you have lived through will become faded but will retain a source of self solution that you can pass on. Be patient with yourself and know that you are not on your own. God bless.
I like my manic episodes. The last one I had, I slept for maybe 10-15 hours throughout that entire week, and was excessively energetic for about 90% of the day, every day. Also I've had few moments in my life where I was in a better mood than that. I crashed quite epically after my best friend tried to kill herself, but it was still one of the most awesome weeks I've ever had... Honestly, it's worth it. The depression is hell, but it at least gives me more insight to work with for my music.
I have terrible lows, crying for no apparent reason,not being able to stay awake in the day yet racing thoughts won't let me sleep at night.I hear derogatory voices and occasionally hallucinate. I have OCD.I hate going out alone and I hate being alone although I feel like I need to be alone.I get very agitated and angry. When I'm manic I talk way too much and too fast. I'm in so much debt because I'm not good with money.I spend lots on my kids n hubby but not on myself cause of guilt. Continued.
I find my self at times more angry than most, but that is because i have an anger problem. I can tell i have adhd still due to the fact that when people talk to me i have to catch myself, because my mind will start wonder wither i want it to or not. I truely do feel bad for those kids that do have add adhd, and depression. No child should be depressed. But i agree that alot of kids act out to get attention, or something else is bothering them
I can't take it anymore, worrying about WTF my bipolar friend is thinking, and constantly "walking on egg shells," wondering, why didn't she respond to my text? Is she mad? Is it something I said? Screw it, this is just gonna make ME depressed trying to worry about the friendship.
+FrankGarrett316 If you don't accept the way the person is, it's not even friendship in first place. The ups and downs of bipolar disorder are caused by the central nervous system working the wrong way (either too fast or too slow, making the person irrational or depressed - this is a genetic thing, not a mindful choice). It is the very same part of the brain that causes epilepsy seizures (in fact, the mood stabilizer given to bipolars is an anti-convulsant used for epilepsy). It's not at all about "worrying what the other person is thinking", it's not like if the bipolar person is "doing it", it just happens, 100 % like epileptic seizures. Not fun. But if this is enough for you to be unable to take it anymore (even after informing yourself about bipolar, like, watching this video), than just leave the person alone. Leave the person alone because as a matter of fact, you weren't friends in first place if you are so needy/self centered in the "friendship" that you can't accept the way a "friend" is...(it's not that you need to make special efforts anyway...bipolars are not retarded, mean, evil or anything...) just leave the person alone with his/her misery like all you "strong and healthy" people usually do ;)