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Originally Posted by Tala
Brought this over from another thread where it was totally off topic.
Bipolar Disorder is what was once called Manic-Depression. There's something wrong with the neurons or the receivers in your brain, preventing the mood stabilization that normal people have.
Those of us with the disorder tend to have "cycles" of up and down periods. Keep in mind that normal people can do this, but we are the extreme version. According to my doctor, a normal person usually cycles between sadness and happiness on a regular basis, with more of a normal feeling of everyday regularity for a longer period of time. Usually their sadness/anger/joy etc. will only last a day or two, thus the old saying, "having one of those days."
A bipolar person often goes through that cycle in a day. I was going through it several times a week, making me volitile and depressed one moment, king of the world the next with no way of knowing which mood would strike when.
I am diagnosed with bipolar disorder - depressive tendancies. This means that I tend to get really high and happy before falling into a very deep depression that can last hours or days or months.
The drugs I'm on help so much it's incredible. I don't do the whole depressed thing for very long anymore, maybe just a day like everyone else, then I'm fine again. I still get sad, I'm not a zombie, but I'm "up" more.
Anyone else here have the same disorder? On drugs? How do you cope?
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I've been on several types of medication for depression/anxiety and rage and they would help for a few weeks or months, but then it seemed like they would stop working. Going to a shrink helped when I was there talking about it, but there was still the rest of the week where I wasn't thtere and had to try and deal with shit on my own. Finally one day after being on one of the medications, (Zyprexa I think it was), and it making me wake up feeling dizzy and puking, I said fuck this and stopped it all. I still have ups and downs, more downs than ups, although lately its been better, but I don't have to take medication everyday. Some days I feel great, some days I can't leave my house. Some anti-depressants actually make depression worse, or so I've read. I didn't want to have to take a pill for the rest of my life, so I am trying to deal with it on my own and by hanging out with people who don't bring me down.
