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Originally Posted by DarkJedi
if you can't deal with shit without drugs, you = weak.
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That's a very stupid comment. You obviously know nothing about this disorder, not to mention other mental disorders which REQUIRE help. You really should stay out of threads that you know nothing about.
A couple of years ago I went through a pretty hard time in my life and (without telling a long, twisted tale) I ended up in a psych unit. I admitted myself.
They diagnosed me bi-polar and I stayed there for 10 days. They started me off on Celexa - which did nothing for me - and then started me on Prozake + Depakote...which, like the quote said turned me into a zombie. It wasn't fun at all. For me, it basically shut down ALL feeling. I no longer went through cycles of depression and mania, but instead was at a constant "nothing state". I felt nothing. I couldn't be happy and I couldn't be sad. I continued taking it for a short period afterwards, but soon stopped both.
It's been a couple years since then, and i'm coping nowadays. I got my shit together and got my life on track.
I still have the characteristic "swings", but not as bad as then. My ex girl was diagnosed with bi-polar a couple years before me, and she seemed to have worse swings than I did, so i'm convinced that this disorder is not one that can hold just a generic label - it affects each and everyone differently.
Best of luck to those of you who are coping with this disorder.