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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Good to know yo feel well. BTW, I didn't know that bipolar requires a hospitalization.
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In the lows of bipolar you can be suicidal, I don't know if I'd consider myself bipolar anymore because I haven't taken medication in almost 10 years and haven't had any problems.
Crappy thing is medicine has a lag period to being effective of at least 5-7 days and usually takes even longer.
Be glad if you've never had to experience mental illness. I don't dwell on it or like to think about it but if someone is afflicted with it I'll discuss it with them for a little bit.
17.5 - 20 were the worst years of my life (so far anyway
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What happened is I kept cycling in and out until my highs were where I felt bad and my lows were suicidal. Though I had things that happened that made me feel bad, nothing to make me feel the way I did by any standard.
I ended up being hospitalized for 20 days, it cost a little over $20k.
One friend of mine has a kid that's unstable (the biological father most likely passed it on) and her hospital visits last year cost right around $100k. She's lucky she has a job that she can cover that with.
For me, after being on lithium for 2 years and living with a disgusting rash oozing pus and leaking blood all over my chest and back (scars still riddle my back at 31). Fortunately I didn't fall into anything and my mind was ok, it's improved with age.
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Some of us know people that are happy all the time for no real reason, and they can't seem to understand why people need to be so downtrodden and depressed.
Your mood serves an evolutionary purpose, some of us are just unfortunate to be skewed in an unfavorable way.
Some of us get doubly fucked, like eddy, gay and crazy! lol.