The doctor in this video is making alot of generalisations about bipolar disorder. Im suffering with this disease for thirty years. Even though I am doing everything " right" no substance abuse, no self medicating, exercise, eating healthy, taking meds on time, seeing a therapist and a psychiatrist, I am still struggling with severe depression which is treatment resistant and debilitating. I wish everyone with this disease everything of the best in your fight against it. God bless.
Have you tried deep meditation - staying with the pain with mindfulness, rather than treating the intense feelings as something to be gotten rid of? A consistent, energetic meditation, such as that promoted by Joe Dispenza, can also be really helpful in shifting the body's habitual addiction to down moods. With consistency we're capable of producing ourselves the neurotransmitters and hormones that are meds are attempting to correct. Check out Joe Dispenza's "You are the Placebo"
Thankyou for your comment :) I am suffering with treatment resistant depression from my bipolar disorder too and I can relate to your struggle. I sincerely hope things improve for you. Kind regards.
I've been diagnosed since age 21 but have only taken mood stabilzers for 3 years. I'm now 40. Those unmedicated years were drug fueled and wasted. I spiraled out of control and backwards so many times. The scariest part for me was not knowing what was happening. I now am on a medication which works great, sober for 5 years, and feel close to what I felt like before my diagnoses. There is no shame. No one asks for an illness. Keep going everyone.
Bipolar has destroyed my life and I’m still recuperating from the shambles I’ve made for myself, I pray my son doesn’t have to deal with it, he’s two. I am currently trying an anticonvulsant lamotrigine and it has been ok but I really feel that environmental factors are the most important aspects of keeping this under control.
I am also bi polar. And I got tired of being called crazy by my ex boyfriend which is why he’s an ex. Nobody understands the full impact of this illness.
I have bi polar 1 and it controls my life. I'm fortunate to have a wonderful loving and supportive husband that puts up with me. When I'm manic I tend to spiral out of control and turn very cruel and I say horrible things and do horrible things. Any other man would have left me. But he sticks around and loves me harder. My depression is often worse Than my mania. I'm very suicidal often and feel worthless. I feel my family could do and deserves way more than me. Living with this is hard and it is a very real mental illness.
+LovelyLush5649, I'm in a relationship with a bipolar 2 girlfriend. She's just amazing, going through huge family's pressure to continue this relationship. Still working hard to convince them.
It really is hard to convince family when they are seeing their loved ones in a sense being hurt by someone. My mother in law struggles with me alot and to honest I don't think she would even put up with me and my problems if her son didn't love me so much and if I wasn't the mother of her three grand daughters. Which also makes my disease so much worse. The last thing I want is my kids to see me have a manic attack. I mean they have but, they are still young but growing up too fast and It's starting to affect our oldest already. Just hold on to her if she truly means that much. No psychical of mental problem can stop true love.
+Themommyista Thank you so much. Can I have your email address? I would to listen to your story and I can share mine. I need someone to talk to and get some support. Currently, non of my family members understand my feeling. And this is terrible. Hope to get your reply soon. God bless.
Thank you so much for this. I've been living with this disorder and faced many sleepless nights and being hyped up all the time. As a student, I find this tiring because my body feels heavy but my mind is widely awake! And then, there were these mixed emotions of sadness and anxiety came along. Of course, I did a religious cleansing (Ruqya) in Islam to make sure it has nothing to do with black magic. It turned out I was totally fine. I thought it was overwhelming and something weird was going on inside my brain before getting diagnosed a few weeks ago.
suffered bi polar 2 for 20 yrs but am much better tho still have struggles. Memories of the past tend to affect my current happiness very frustrating!! Treatment and support is absolutely vital:)
This is one of the best bipolar video I have seen, yet. My ex had it and made my life a living nightmare. This clip helped me understand the illness better. Thank you 🙌❤️
My adult son was diagnosed with Bipolar 1 early last year. Our lives went into a tailspin. He moved back home with us after a hospitalization. He has a great doctor and went through counseling. Everything seemed to be going well for about a year, and our lives seemed almost normal again, but then another episode hit. The hardest thing is that our son is in denial that he has a disorder, so when he's cycling, he won't admit it and keeps spiraling downward. As his mother, I feel so alone with such despair. I want to fix him and help him, but he refuses any help or suggestions. I'm scared all the time and just want this disorder to go away or heal. My son is still on his meds, but I think what caused this recent episode was him taking energy pills that he began using a few months ago. He lost 27 pounds in one month and was very manic. We are all in this together as a family, but it is so hard and I'm looking for help and support from any other people in this situation.
Wow, I read this comment was from 8 years ago. How is your son now? I hope well. My daughter is still young but I worry all the time about her future. I can't even imagine the pain watching your child go through something like this💔 I hope he is managing well now.
I live with type 1 Bipolar disorder lady - it's sometimes difficult, sometimes funny. God bless these people, they are often sa sensitive and warm inside...
+Andy Baker You should really attempt a legitimate course of mindfulness meditation. It basically allows a person to see each situation as nothing more than a moment without attaching momentary feelings and judgments to them. I was diagnosed with chronic depression, bipolar disorder, etc at a very young age and have for the most part overcome them. It can happen, but it requires an almost total devotion to changing the mind in so many ways.
LordDavis CanLive Mindfulness is fairly different. It's meditation based on your moment, at any moment. It's created for awareness, especially in moments of crisis. Let me give you an example: I hike quite often, and when I'm hiking my mind is caught up in the internal chatter in my mind, the stress, agitation, anxiety, etc and one day I discovered mindfulness. The following week while hiking, I decided to implement mindfulness and it was like my facial muscles loosened, my mind was clear, and the thoughts that did arrive, just kept moving beyond me, and I realized that there was a babbling brook next to the trail that I always hike. I literally never heard it before. My consciousness awoke.
LordDavis CanLive I have this extreme and rare condition/situation. I call it the quiet life. When my anxiety builds to a threshold within me, my body almost closes down, and relieves me of this pressure. I find myself walking in a store for example where my mind hears everything differently, like soft piano keys touching down, everything is subtle, subdued, and I see things differently, far more aware and accute. It's like my body builds the anxiety to a point where I can no longer handle it and then it just lets it all go. I have been trying to stifle the build up so that it never happens. I will be making videos pertaining to this situation in the future.
I love these people that think it's fake! So the struggles that I have been going trough, over the last fifty years of my life are fake! This is a real life threatening disease, similar to diabetes! The similarity being that with either disease, if you don't get help, can kill you!
some people are just uninformed, ignorant, and self absorbed, I never let feeds on youtube ever effect me since I know the truth, fact, and knowledge not to listen to some others. You are right and I stand with you but there is no changing the minds of a comment that seems to have no mind to expand.
Everyone on UA-cam is an armchair psychologist. Ignore them. Too many religious nuts and wannabe Ph.D's commenting on something they know NOTHING about. Mental illness is not fake/caused by demons/created by Big Pharma or anything else. It's a disruption of thought, mood and behavior caused by a malfunctioning brain. The only treatment is therapy, medication and healthy living.
Well sometimes I just want my brain to stop working, full stop! Thanks for this video, great information. I was misdiagnosed with Depression and treated with Paroxetine 30mg for 10 years. During that time, I knew it wasn't right. I had short panic attacks out of nothing perhaps 1 a month, I was irritable, impatient, very enthusiastic about my job to an extreme of becoming unmanageable and sickly demanding with others. I didn't care about anyone in my team, I just cared about getting the job done, regardless everyone else's limitations. Around me everyone felt the need to play superman. And how I enjoyed it...! I felt I was better than anyone else (perhaps only a couple of exceptions) in my team, better than my boss, better than my manager... and I felt irritated and agitated by their lack of interest in the job... I would be manipulative into getting everyone thinking I was the best that ever happened to them, and I would play perfection full time, to detriment of others... 9-10 years of Mania... I knew I wasn't right. Until one year I broke down, and lost all my attention spam, short term memory, couldn't multitask anymore, couldn't prioritize tasks, couldn't work under pressure if someone was watching. Couldn't understand what people really meant, couldn't make sense out of anything...started having panic attacks 2-3 times a week. That is when I quit my job. I lost all ability to organize simple tasks, such as getting dressed, having a shower or brushing my teeth... That is when finally I found my Psychiatrist, who thought might have Bipolar Disorder and the Paroxetine for 10 years suspended me in a ongoing Maniac reality. Till the day I hit rock bottom... Now trying to understand the disease, adjust meds (quetiapine) and my own persona to this newly perceived reality (it feels like I have been sleeping for years and just now the blind has come off my eyes), coming off Paroxetine is hell (they never told me how addictive it was before, I wasn't allowed an informed decision) , but well worth the effort. Perhaps I still can glue some bits back and act like a normal person for the first time in my life.
I was diagnosed as Bipolar 15 years ago and I've thought about it ever since. I've been terrified it would always be there, that I'd never have a normal life. I do feel a duty at times. I want to please my fans and face up to the fact that I do suffer with mental health issues but I'm fighting back! It's time for you to relax and let someone in, let someone else take control. I could do with the strength you have! Well done! X
bipolar type 1 for years . Quit Meds five years ago and jog daily plus music is my savior. I have fully accepted it it ain't easy but I Managed to deal with it on a daily basis.
The trial and error of meds really effed up my life more than it ever helped! Some meds I made a complete ass out of myself because the changed me so much!- and I have a good seven months of my life I can't remember !- seriously, can't remember a damn thing. ( klonopine) Stopped meds 7 years ago, and really got my shit together,... Business owner, married, productive life😊 Kudos to you for managing with running etc. and YES music will make or break me hehe
@@HouseofCastro bipolar losts all the bipolars life we will have to give People the reality of bipolar a Doctor has to accept bipolar biological compount these emotions of depression and mania are true emotions . Emotional intelligence is worthless to People with bipolar you have to accept that bipolars need better therpies And Doctor,s have to beware of medications that cause bipolars emotional pain as it happened to me .
There is really no way out of this without real help from others that you can trust--Help that helps a bi polar patient move forward, not helping by damaging them further with Stigmatized Abuse and Abandonment. I am not a drug addict, I have a brain disease.
At the age of 23 I had a baby. 4 months after I had my baby I ended up in a psychosis and was hospitalized and diagnosed as being bipolar 2 disorder. I had gone back to work after having the baby. My husband was not supportive. We were buying a new house....all of the stress and changing of my body and hormones became too much for me. My son is now 15. I was hospitalized in 2007 to get meds adjusted and in 2009 because I had depression. I've been out of the hospital for 10years and I'm doing ok.....yes I have good days and bad days but I keep at it day by day. I love my son and life.
Thank you bipolar illness is one of strongest emotions one will experience and PTSD is the strongest anxiety in neurosis so there of strongest emotions in history. Mania : depression And panic are the three of worlds strongest emotions.
Good for you!!! I have had a very stable life in spite of my illness. I have had huge catastrophes that I have had to stay on my feet such as an abducted child. If there is anything I can do to help you please pm me on Facebook under T.J. Simon - I have never been hospitalized in 30 years. I am in Spokane Washington.
I had to watch this because recently, I have been suffering irritability and anger along with wicked anxiety. When I get angry I have these homicide images going in my mind and it feels as though I really want to hurt them. I love the people I care about. Also, I often times struggle to get out of bed. Because of that it's easy for me to fall into a state of depression and then it would turn into anger and irritability once more. I don't have manic symptoms like what someone with bipolar 1 would have, but I do have impulses, suicide ideation occasionally, grandiosity, and a good chunk of symptoms that would posssibly confirm my family's suspicions of Bipolar 2. I don't believe I'm on the correct antidepressants and have been misdiagnosed. I plan to bring my mom with me to my next appointment with a nurse practitioner to help confirm if this is what's going on. I am also undergoing therapy. Hopefully I can get to the bottom of this so I can get better.
I* was diagnosed with SEVERE ADHD in 1977, Im 45 now. , My battle with depression began in 1992, which normally that is when the onset of depression occurs in the early 20's. in addition I also suffer miserably with PTSD> , anyway the incomprehensible levels of pain we endure are beyond words unless you have it!! and my illness has progressed now to where my moods bounce back and forth from Elation to EXTREME MELANCHOLY. Its frightening as hell and now II'm quickly losing the war after 30 + years*
Well if i am going to live forever i am going to need miraclious healing are i will live with bipolar for eternity there would have to be biological healing .I have bipolar i am on medications yes .
Im bipolar 1 with psychosis,severe PTSD,BPD, ADHD Ive been on meds since i was a teen. Im 41 now. It's been a nightmare. My last suicide attempt i took a bottle of sleeping pills. 120 of them. I ended up on life support for 3 days. It was pretty close. They asked my family if they wanted to talk to a chaplain. After i had to go around with oxygen. My throat was messed up because of the tube. I sounded like a man lol Bipolar is deadly. Ppl ive known in my past with bipolar are dead due to suicide. Apparently im lucky to be alive at 41. Ive watched my daughter get married and have my granddaughter. My youngest getting jobs and she found the one she likes. A hard worker. I remind myself that if i were not here I would not be apart of any of it. Those times where i look around and im happy to be alive. But the sad thing is when i get depressed I dont feel that way. Depression so bad it hurts to do anything. Brush my teeth seems like a huge thing. Psychosis i think my loved ones are after me trying to kill me. Poison me. Ill hear them whispering and think they are talking about me. A nightmare. I have many other symptoms. To much to type.
I was diagnosed about 2009. I had never heard of bipolar before my diagnosis. I also have ptsd and I always thought that the two was the same thing that it was two sides of the same coin. Because every time I go through a traumatic event I then go through these types of symptoms. All these years I have dismissed bipolar as being of anything of any significance because for me the symptoms of bipolar run side to side with my ptsd. What I'm trying to say is that I'm grateful for the video. I now have more understanding of what I am.
Hi. I have Bi Polar Disorder and was releaved when I was diagnosed. I was happy to know that I was not a "bad person". I often felt like I was ungrateful and this was because I experienced anxiety as well. Thanks to my doctor I am on medication now and I do feel there is hope. Where there is life there is hope.
czr7j9 Every person is free to think the way they want to think, leave them alone. You are saying a rational statement but not thinking in what other beliefs.
***** yeah i kept dreaming that i was flying and after being in hospital 3 times im now free of ll symptoms...Gods love is ammazing u should try it sometime;0
I am type 1, took a step to stop taking meds prescribed, and my life got way better. Those meds make me look like an idiot and it pull down my self worth, hence make me more depressed. Now that i stop taking it, i succesfuly build home business so i don't have to deal with other people. I am easily iritated to work for others. I know nobody read this anyways, but if u do, you can deal with this illness. You dont have to rely on meds, instead just focus on your growth and develop your skills daily. Dont let others tell you what to do, its not that bad.
Agreed, I cant work for others either. Anxiety runs rampant, its just plain stupid to me to even bother trying to adjust to traditional methods more so explaining to people at the workplace my condition. Im getting better though and acceptance is key. I will just keep going.
***** i was diagnosed at 40...before that i thought it was just me...took ativan from 33 to 40 then when they diagnosed me and found i could not synthesize lithium, a trace element/salt, from food then i was put on lithium...that seems to work...along with a SSRI anti depressant....it is tough i am telling you....i believe that bi polar runs in families...good luck
Laura Pearson I'm on Effexor 375 mg and Lamictal 400 mg and neither of them have caused me any weight gain. My predominant mood is depression, hence the high dose of the antidepressant. The Lamictal has been a great mood stabilizer. I still get depressed and rarely hypomanic but the episodes don't last long enough to be of any major concern. I'm also on 30mg of Buspar twice a day for anxiety. If I can keep the anxiety down then my moods are more stable.
God gave you bi-polar...SCIENCE gave the cure... Truth be told...there is no god..and if there is then according to the bible he created EVERYTHING...including every sickness and every disease and ALL death and war...So you would have to be a complete psychopath to love such a monster... The church used to burn "witches" alive...Do you even know what was a witch? Well back then it was someone who used herbs and medicine to heal...rather than wasting there time with prayer...so who they burned alive were SCIENTISTS... give the credit to the correct source or maybe the correct source will stop caring...
Awesome...grazie...I have bipolar y in treatment for several years...🌅💛 my life is so much better..I was born with it y certainly has been a long time coming...I praise god for the awareness y support it is essential..genetics play an important part....nothing to feel ashamed of ...it is a brain disease...for people who do not understand...pray for them❤..life is a gift y we are blessed...great documentary...💛✌
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Pot helps better than anything with the bipolar.and you don't have to put up with the bullshit from these doctors that really don't get withdraw symptoms.sometimes you can't get in to see the doctors in time.and they will let you suffer until you get to see them its such a crock.and some of these doctors act just as sacked as us
I dont think that works i mean maybe from getting mad and lashing out at people but weed is a downer so overtime your just going to very depressed and so another mental illness in top of ano nope not for me
I'm going through this, look I have some great advice. Enjoy the mania, meaning be creative, perform tasks use the excess energy to live strong, better yourself! When the depression comes understand that it is here right now but will slowly dissipate. I have 2 degrees both honors and I have my bi polar to thank. Use this disease to your advantage, know your cycles and absorb the change.
wow? i ❤ thes video. i have bipolar 1 my mother had it, my oldest sister has if and my son has bipolar as well. my daughter yellsat me and says that bipolar doesn’t exist! i. was very sickthis last time she did that to me. she kept yelling and told me that wasn’t sick either. she said i’m a nurse, i work at a hospital. sick is when you’re about to die! i was in a manic episode then and i was having severe headaches too, every day. i hung up on her and thought about how incensitive and unloving too. i finally made a horrible decission.i wont ever speak to hear again and try to think i never had her!😢😢😢 so when she calls me, i just hang up the phone. she has done similar things to me for years and i know that she’s giving me emotional and mental abuse! i refuse to take it anymore. i am angry and sad at the same time. the headaches are ongoing every day. when i was manic i couldn’t sleep for almost six days, got shakes very bad and lost my balance. so i had a hard time getting up and down and i could hardly walk! i had to grab the wall to get to the bathroom or my bedroom, etc.. i lost strength and just laid there for long times. i hate having bipolar and diabetes.they have ruind my life! i really care others and pray to God that they get the help that they deserve.i hope someone will readthis long post.maybe write back to me . i’m very lonely and i don’t have anyone to talk with. please write to me.
Very good! There really is a stigma against Bipolar still, and sometimes I feel very ashamed. The family I came from saw it as a weakness. The family I have now is better about it, but most of them usually have no idea what I go through. This video is quite good, and it's not so easy to find one that describes my own experiences with bipolar disorder. I'm getting medication; but unfortunately, the dr appts are rather expensive for my family, so I feel guilty for that.
ive had problems as a kid, trauma which I think caused my anxiety. I have been diagnosed with moderate-severe anxiety and i fear it might be accompanied by bipolar disorder. i was a straight a student and very positive and had a lot of friends for about 5 years. when things set in and I started to really understand what I experienced as a child I got depressed and my anxiety was beginning. I started self harming and I would go into shame spirals and have violent thoughts, that i still have. thoughts of being violent towards others and myself. I know who I want to be and what I want to do to succeed but I can't. i give myself a plan and I try my best to follow through but then the next few weeks or days i feel like "does it really matter?" and how in the whole universe does this really matter. and it really does I jut can't get myself to do it. I'm really uneducated about this I think but I think I have mixed bipolar symptoms. I once took one of those lousy online quizzes and it resulted very high, I took more and more and I got scared and started researching it. my anxiety level almost always fairly high, I think about the outcome and possible outcomes of everything possible. let's say once I finally get myself to go outside and walk I see someone walking behind someone else. nothing weird or shady about the situation and I just imagine and fear for the person that they're going to get kidnapped or murdered or raped. I think at times I see people with knives or that they're staring at me when im almost certain it doesn't happen. it's either my anxiety or paranoia. as a joke I've been called "schizo" or "bipolar" and im actually wondering, and concerned. am I just paranoid/ anxious or is there something wrong with me?
I have been dealing with bi polar and ptsd my whole life practically before I even knew it was bi polar I got a DX three years ago and I am still struggling I am on my 3rd outpatient treatment because of these struggles i had taken dbt (dialectical behavioral therapy)what are some of you guys coping strategies
I know I am late to the comment thread for this video. While the video is very good, I find it does not address meditation or the spiritual aspects of depression. I am not commenting against people following their doctor's advice or against medication. However, mental illness is almost always labelled as an inherited disorder and seldom addressed for its origins in early trauma and a fragmented and isolated sense of self. A more enlightened society might provide the necessary support while at the same time treat a person's breakdown as a celebration, that the person might have the chance to wake up spiritually, to free themselves from the confining sense of self that isolates them. Instead, people are encouraged to get it under control and fit back into the box. It is no measure of mental health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
I told my mom i needed my prescription when we moved I lost it. she threw me out and told me to get a job. my medication was not right neither. I struggled with a baby, now I have my own place. my brother moved in his gf in my parents house. she lived five years rent free. She was really annoying my mom said to take her out and spend on her. She is sick.
having manic depression most of my life, and have had 12 sessions of ECT, i can say they were the worst thing i have ever had to treat my condition, so it doesn't work for all...
Yeah like when I told my mom that I felt like the symptoms of bipolar seemed to be clear to me at this age of twelve. I told her. But all she says is, you're strong you don't need help.
I have bipolar, Shit sux and it's cliche to say no one understands but like if you don't have bipolar you don't understand and I have no friends who do. Bipolar has drained me of all my will to try anymore because every time I do I just get manic and ruin my life even more so I've pretty much decided being a loser is something I have to live with and that when I die I won't have to care about how guilty and dissapointment that makes me feel.
I have depression and a bipolar disorder and it effects me everyday I can't get help cause no one helps me, my life at home is horrible my mom and everyone treats me like shit. I can't seem to trust anyone with my problems. I don't know what to do anymore I'm scared and I know I need help before I really do something to hurt myself. who and how do I get help. I feel so out of it.
people with bipolar can also meditate and do breathing practices . bcause it helped me so i recommend to do it. in my experience none of psychatrist could not even able to figure out how do feel
I can most assuredly identify with Greg with Effexor causing a manic phase. Caffeine as well. In fact, that is a real question I have with the disorder. How many people that experience BiPolar Disorder have a hard time metabolizing caffeine. To my body, it is as dangerous as alcohol...
Brad Barfield Musical Endeavors Caffeine has a powerful effect on me as well. Def equivalent to alcohol/drug taking. I occasionally have it in very small doses (when I'm really desperate for help to focus, near deadlines and that sort of thing), but even one small coffee in the morning puts me into a state of hypomania for the rest of that day.
Well guess what Im 13 not even 13 im 12 turing 13 in a few weeks and I suffer from bipolar 1 and I drink caffeine and I don't know think it's affects me not sure I know Im very young to even watch This but I fell like need to cause I fell like I need to be well more educated on bipolar
My bf has bipolor and sucidial ida.and s.effective disorder I been with him 14 yrs I throught I could understand but I learned that know matter how I want to understand but u can never understand inless u have it your self. I try to be supportive some times hereing him talking about ending things scard me once he was out of it completely and he walked into the kitchen grabbed the biggest knife pulled his shirt of and he back up on the canter and he was on his tip toes and he raised it up over his head twice and the 2 time I had to scram at him to snip him out of it. That was the frist time I've ever seen him try attempted to carry it out he's was mumbling things I could not understand that was one year ago, he's still not on the right medication and now his 15 year old son is staring to talk about ending things he lives with him mom but but she gets scard to when he talks like that. It's so hard to knowing u can't really help them but all u can do is be supportive some times I feel like just leving him but I can't bring my self to do so bc I love him im just scard that I might wake up and might find him dead .he hasent been attempting now not that I've seen any way but what more could I do for him I teyd every thing I can thank of to help him
I struggle with binge eating and am already obese. I think I may be bipolar 2 from doing my own research but am waiting to see what a therapist thinks. Im scared bc I don't want to be put on meds that makes my eating habits worse. I can't handle gaining anymore weight. I already worked so hard for a year and lost 50 lbs. Im scared of taking something that makes me gain it all back plus some. And please don't say "is being skinny more important than your mental health" bc for me it is a part of my mental and physical health. I'm miserable being fat. I don't want to hear any of that. I want to know will a doctor help you find meds that don't make u gain wieght?
From all the research I've done in the last 10 years, his statistic of 80% inheriting the disease from relatives is WAY out of whack. I'd like to know where he got that from? Or did he just pull it out of thin air?
Valium is definitely not the right choice of meds for depression or anxiety. It is only for acute situations. I suffer with this too. God bless you Dear Lady!
I have very rapid mood swings and it sucks, especially when I get the mother of all depressions. Past week I have been cycling between mixed state and depressed over and over and over again.
I was diagnosed with having bipolar right around my second or third year of anorexia. I also have a receptive processing disorder (trouble following instructions, understanding terminologies and trying to figure out how to do some tasks on my own, though I keep trying, it doesn't look like it) and a mild (if there is such a thing) OCD. . . . I take meds, but I get no help from friends or family. How sad is that!?
+JoAndra Van Dowall The family doctor also told me I have anorexia. But I thought she's a dumbass since I don't eat because I don't feel the need to, I feel shitty most of the time, down. Is it anorexia even If you're not eating and then sticking your fingers in your mouth to puke so you look slim ? In the last months I thought I may have aspergers, and now this has come to my mind. I obssess over things as well, am very irritable, innapropriate I would say, and done weird things that after I got past the "high' state I was scared of myself, thinking I went insane. I have periods of mind blindedness and feel most of the time I'm living in a dream. Do you think I may have it? Thank you. I have to wait a few more months before visiting a psychiatrist, I always thought I'm just fucked up inside the head.
+JoAndra Van Dowall Do they know you have bipolar disorder ? Are they aware of the seriousness of depression/mania ? You should maybe go to a doctor with one of the family members and have him explain to them, since they might think you exagerate or something. People aren't generally mindreaders, and just assume you are like them, and should behave like they do. Or watch a movie with them about the disorder. I'm sorry, it's not my bussiness to give you advices. I just want to help you, because I have severe depression most of the time, I don't even feel like living anymore, and people just assume I have too much time on my hands. I'm in a similar place in my life.
+Lucian Zarnescu Purging your meals is called bulimia. I've had that after the anorexia, so the combination of not eating anything for awhile, then hurl everything I do eat is called bulimarexia. No, you're not messed up in the head. Brain chemicals are different for everyone and too many times people assume what your thinking and feeling.
I'm Bipolar Type 1 - Also Bipolar: Sting (Police), Jimi Hendrix, Mozart, Beethoven, Jim Carrie, Robyn WIlliams, Ted Turner, Catherine Zeta Jones, Mel Gibson, ISAAC NEWTON, Peter Gabriel, Sinead OConnor, Cheri Oteri, Brian Wilson (beach boys), Axl Rose, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Cobain, Peter Wentz (fallout boy), Vivien Leigh, Marylyn Monroe, Carrie Fisher, Russell Brand, Amy Winehouse, Stephen Fry, Frank Sinatra, Demi Lovato, Richard Dreyfuss, Kim Novak, Virginia Woolf, Macy Gray, Kristy McNichol, Linda Hamilton, Charles Dickens, Maria Bamford, Burgess Meridith, Patty Duke, Jack London, Florence Nightingale, Jackson Pollock, Adam Ant, Ray Davies (Kinks), Dick Cavett,
Medicine's major metric of success involves returning a person to a functioning role in society..... Not on wellbeing Not on contentment Not on connection .....once you're back to work and not vocally or physically displaying emotion, you're forgotten about....unless you "lose ground" Then you're the focus of attention again.
And everyone being considered for a bipolar diagnosis ought have a detailed sleep history taken as well as complete a sleep study. . I have a parasomnia. Which is separate from events of waking startled. It turned out the startled wakings were due to cardiovascular insufficiency. I had known they were not panic attacks and had to advocate to much to finally get a proper diagnosis and helpful medication. . Health is a whole body/mind things. . I still have bipolar one diagnosis. I just also have a heart condition that if I had let doctors continue to dismiss as anxiety, I might have died in my sleep as anti-anxiety medications can worsen the heart problems I have. . Be careful everyone. Hugs
My brother was diagonsed with conversion disorder now he is angry all the time swears to parents brother sister doesnot go out of home quit his job and thinks he is fine he doesnt want go see the doctor either. we as family member dont know how to deal with him
Very good documentary. Been thru it all with my ex. The manic episodes especially the last one before I finally divorced him, was the worst thing I have ever been thru. He refused help. Had to divorce him . Was going thru hell with him. Terrible situation for my kids....He was a classic case
Thank you for this video it is just like this for me I tried for years to tell my doctor it was something more them major depression because I would get on these highs and then the bottom would drop out and here comes the depression it is crazy and my brain would not shut down when mainia kicked in i would barely get 4 hours of sleep.
As a bipolar individual I found this film very offensive. In the introduction random people are surveyed about what they think about bipolar. Not only is the way those individuals refer to "them" as though bipolar people are a different, more infantile version of a human, the various misconceptions espoused about bipolar disorder, for example that it is caused by hormone imbalance, are never corrected or explained. Nothing new is revealed about the disorder and the actual experiences of bipolar people is barely discussed in this film. The repetitive message of the "documentary" is basically "living with someone with bipolar disorder is hard" and "bipolar people get really depressed and that's hard to be around" without taking a look at the perspective of the actual bipolar individual. The topic of what it is like to stay in a mental institution (aka "hospital") is avoided regardless of the fact that it is a terrifying experience undergone by many bipolar individuals who are locked up and treated as a mix between a convicted prisoner, retarded child, and senile senior by staff and doctors alike. Rather, the bipolar individuals interviewed are basically apologizing for their disorders and continuously taking accountability for their issues. On this note, the contribution of traumatic events to bipolar episodes is only barely mentioned and is not discussed. Overall this film is not informative in any way and serves to perpetuate stereo-types and misunderstandings.
I also found it disturbing that the misconceptions were not immediately corrected. Some text on the screen would have been good, or a giant FALSE stamped over the person.
I suffer from bipolar and schizophrenia. It feels like I'm living in hell or I'm prizoned to never escape. It really hurts when ppl don't understand. Or treat me like I'm only dumb. A walking disease. Ppl just don't understand. I'm really kind. Also very sensitive. It hurts when ppl tell me they care about me. But then treat me like I'm a burden. All I do now is apologize for what I feel. Cause I'm treated like it's a bad thing. It's hard to be close to anyone. Even if I wanted to be. Ppl complain I'm too sensitive or ppl envy me because I'm on SSI. Something I never had a choice in. And yes I can live independent and do right so ppl don't think I have it. It's hard to tell ppl. But it's not a choice. We who suffers this has no choice. Something's we just can't help. But we do have feelings. Some is the disorder but the other half is our real feelings.
I feel you. People do not have the same compassion for mental illness as they do for physical illness, 90% of which is also caused by early trauma and the subconscious mind. Society is mostly addicted to the illusion of personal doership and free will, therefore blaming the mental illness victim whereas they don't hold the physical illness sufferer with the same "responsibility". Mental illness can be a tremendous spiritual opportunity for awakening. The suffering is so extreme that one may find a place in which one considers finding out who they really are and abandoning their illusory self concept. The liberation that can come from this is not something the average person finds themselves suffering enough to seek out. The awareness that sits behind the self concept, that swirling, self-referential storm of thoughts, is the peace that knows no understanding. I encourage you to meditate and sit with it without treating the feelings as something wrong, to be gotten rid of. Check out Joe Dispenza's material and also research somatic experiencing as it relates to recent discoveries in neuroscience.
I don't know why i was born this way it runs in my family i hoped to never get it but when i turned 16 i did...and now im finally realizing that my dream for becoming an astronaut will never come to fruition should i just give up living i have a gift for music but i want to go to space....because I know i was put on this earth to do that....oh the agony of living this hell sometimes i wish death upon myself for i know that a life worth not living is hell enough as opposed to killing ur self and going to hell...i just wish had i been born without this mentality if not had i been born at all....:..(
the problem with bipolar depression is that i underwent fight ( tug of war )in the mind over a single thought for many years which makes drained of leading to disorders.this could not be explained through words.the reason to explain this is , i wanted to know people how i overcame this . #meditation helps#
i wish people would stop describing mdd as,sad,no interest etc its utterly brutal..you cant walk talk eat sleep think your sick inside sobbing for weeks weird scary ideas agoraphobia panic ,rage,everything and more thank you
+xTommyGirlx I went to check online, some studies said if one parent got BPD, the likely hood to inherit the illness is around 10-15%... I'm confuse too. But I'm certain that you need to always prepare this might hit your kids one day.
yeah, it's kind of scary... then there's the whole idea of what it would take to conceive a healthy kid too while managing the condition during pregnancy. like, what are people supposed to do? go off of their meds?
Just putting it out there I strongly wonder about the possibility of some people being bipolar because of life circumstances and situations and history. I was diagnosed with bp 1 a few years ago but I go up and down a lot because of craziness and frustration Ive dealt with.
Yes. One may have a sensitive nature and genetic predisposition, but it is almost always early trauma that will epigenetically set off the condition, which then becomes a habitual mind-body addiction. Check out Joe Dispenza's material on this matter.
I haven't being diagnosed yet but I definitely have all those symptoms those victims have stated. The worst part is that my own family encourages me to kill myself when I think about it.
im diagnosed with bipolar 1 and im pregnant.. its really hard since i cant take mood stabilizer for it will affrct the baby.. what should i do? its really hard.. i cant sleep at night or in day
Its 2pm on Friday and I've been awake since Wednesday morning with no drugs or coffee. I've done everything I need to do and I'm sat looking round for more. At the start of the week I wanted to hang myself. Do you think I'm bipolar?? 😂
Sending you the love of one who knows and understands. You do not want to kill yourself. What you really want is to die to the past, to die to your contracted sense of self and isolation. While on the surface this is made to sound simple, I know it's not. It requires some inner realization that you are meant to be here, that you are an integral part of the Universe and not separate from it, though it may feel that way. People can point the way, but almost no one is capable of giving you the unconditional love you deserved. That love is something you can find out for yourself, but only you can make the hero's journey and sit with yourself and inquire "who am I?" and be with those intense feelings long enough for them to transmute into acceptance. It's really tough and it's not your fault. But what you're going through is your own "karma". There is no running from it or medicating it out of existence. Come out the other side for making the journey and your suffering may turn out to be a gold mine. Perhaps check out Joe Dispenza's material, as well as explore somatic experiencing as it relates to early childhood trauma. The Universe is a paradox. On the one hand, all is one and and benign and at that level there is no suffering. But on the other hand it is dualistic and either pleasure or pain and the individual person does experience trauma and suffering. The suffering can be an ironic gift because without it you may never have found the need to explore these deeper, spiritual questions.
I have no friend i have no girfriend i just live in isolation over then 2 years in huge depression with ugly dreams and pain..my doctor said that he can not find the way to back in normal life because i have all simptoms of depression,only withaut insomnia.I am lost...
The doctor in this video is making alot of generalisations about bipolar disorder. Im suffering with this disease for thirty years. Even though I am doing everything " right" no substance abuse, no self medicating, exercise, eating healthy, taking meds on time, seeing a therapist and a psychiatrist, I am still struggling with severe depression which is treatment resistant and debilitating. I wish everyone with this disease everything of the best in your fight against it. God bless.
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Have you tried deep meditation - staying with the pain with mindfulness, rather than treating the intense feelings as something to be gotten rid of? A consistent, energetic meditation, such as that promoted by Joe Dispenza, can also be really helpful in shifting the body's habitual addiction to down moods.
With consistency we're capable of producing ourselves the neurotransmitters and hormones that are meds are attempting to correct.
Check out Joe Dispenza's "You are the Placebo"
Sending you much light🕯️ and love
yesssss
Thankyou for your comment :) I am suffering with treatment resistant depression from my bipolar disorder too and I can relate to your struggle. I sincerely hope things improve for you. Kind regards.
I've been diagnosed since age 21 but have only taken mood stabilzers for 3 years. I'm now 40. Those unmedicated years were drug fueled and wasted. I spiraled out of control and backwards so many times. The scariest part for me was not knowing what was happening. I now am on a medication which works great, sober for 5 years, and feel close to what I felt like before my diagnoses. There is no shame. No one asks for an illness. Keep going everyone.
im glad your doing better !
I am one of you. God bless you all for your suffering. I know how it feels and wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemies. I feel you. Wayne
yes well feel numbed and dulled flat Affleck.
I am sorry. I pray that God gives you relief.
How bless you very angelic u are an angel warm hearted person x
Bipolar has destroyed my life and I’m still recuperating from the shambles I’ve made for myself, I pray my son doesn’t have to deal with it, he’s two. I am currently trying an anticonvulsant lamotrigine and it has been ok but I really feel that environmental factors are the most important aspects of keeping this under control.
I am also bi polar. And I got tired of being called crazy by my ex boyfriend which is why he’s an ex. Nobody understands the full impact of this illness.
I have bi polar 1 and it controls my life. I'm fortunate to have a wonderful loving and supportive husband that puts up with me. When I'm manic I tend to spiral out of control and turn very cruel and I say horrible things and do horrible things. Any other man would have left me. But he sticks around and loves me harder. My depression is often worse Than my mania. I'm very suicidal often and feel worthless. I feel my family could do and deserves way more than me. Living with this is hard and it is a very real mental illness.
+LovelyLush5649, I'm in a relationship with a bipolar 2 girlfriend. She's just amazing, going through huge family's pressure to continue this relationship. Still working hard to convince them.
It really is hard to convince family when they are seeing their loved ones in a sense being hurt by someone. My mother in law struggles with me alot and to honest I don't think she would even put up with me and my problems if her son didn't love me so much and if I wasn't the mother of her three grand daughters. Which also makes my disease so much worse. The last thing I want is my kids to see me have a manic attack. I mean they have but, they are still young but growing up too fast and It's starting to affect our oldest already. Just hold on to her if she truly means that much. No psychical of mental problem can stop true love.
+Themommyista Thank you so much. Can I have your email address? I would to listen to your story and I can share mine. I need someone to talk to and get some support. Currently, non of my family members understand my feeling. And this is terrible. Hope to get your reply soon. God bless.
God help your husband.
Themommyista thank you for sharing this. It gets hard but we must keep going 😀👍
Denise choice leave up her kids for a while and sort herself out was incredibly brave
Thank you so much for this. I've been living with this disorder and faced many sleepless nights and being hyped up all the time. As a student, I find this tiring because my body feels heavy but my mind is widely awake! And then, there were these mixed emotions of sadness and anxiety came along. Of course, I did a religious cleansing (Ruqya) in Islam to make sure it has nothing to do with black magic. It turned out I was totally fine. I thought it was overwhelming and something weird was going on inside my brain before getting diagnosed a few weeks ago.
suffered bi polar 2 for 20 yrs but am much better tho still have struggles.
Memories of the past tend to affect my current happiness very frustrating!!
Treatment and support is absolutely vital:)
What is the best treatment that has worked for you so far? I also suffer from Bipolar II. Woo hoo, same club. 😜
How do you deal with the past memories?
This is one of the best bipolar video I have seen, yet. My ex had it and made my life a living nightmare. This clip helped me understand the illness better. Thank you 🙌❤️
My adult son was diagnosed with Bipolar 1 early last year. Our lives went into a tailspin. He moved back home with us after a hospitalization. He has a great doctor and went through counseling. Everything seemed to be going well for about a year, and our lives seemed almost normal again, but then another episode hit. The hardest thing is that our son is in denial that he has a disorder, so when he's cycling, he won't admit it and keeps spiraling downward. As his mother, I feel so alone with such despair. I want to fix him and help him, but he refuses any help or suggestions. I'm scared all the time and just want this disorder to go away or heal. My son is still on his meds, but I think what caused this recent episode was him taking energy pills that he began using a few months ago. He lost 27 pounds in one month and was very manic. We are all in this together as a family, but it is so hard and I'm looking for help and support from any other people in this situation.
Wow, I read this comment was from 8 years ago. How is your son now? I hope well. My daughter is still young but I worry all the time about her future. I can't even imagine the pain watching your child go through something like this💔 I hope he is managing well now.
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I live with type 1 Bipolar disorder lady - it's sometimes difficult, sometimes funny. God bless these people, they are often sa sensitive and warm inside...
I'm type 2. The depression is soul crushing. No motivation. Always sleepy. Think of suicide everyday. Meds help a little but... Ehh
don't commit suicide. I'm here if you need to talk :)
+Andy Baker You should really attempt a legitimate course of mindfulness meditation. It basically allows a person to see each situation as nothing more than a moment without attaching momentary feelings and judgments to them.
I was diagnosed with chronic depression, bipolar disorder, etc at a very young age and have for the most part overcome them. It can happen, but it requires an almost total devotion to changing the mind in so many ways.
+Brain Police í meditate!! advice on mindful meditation
LordDavis CanLive Mindfulness is fairly different. It's meditation based on your moment, at any moment. It's created for awareness, especially in moments of crisis.
Let me give you an example: I hike quite often, and when I'm hiking my mind is caught up in the internal chatter in my mind, the stress, agitation, anxiety, etc and one day I discovered mindfulness. The following week while hiking, I decided to implement mindfulness and it was like my facial muscles loosened, my mind was clear, and the thoughts that did arrive, just kept moving beyond me, and I realized that there was a babbling brook next to the trail that I always hike. I literally never heard it before. My consciousness awoke.
LordDavis CanLive I have this extreme and rare condition/situation. I call it the quiet life.
When my anxiety builds to a threshold within me, my body almost closes down, and relieves me of this pressure.
I find myself walking in a store for example where my mind hears everything differently, like soft piano keys touching down, everything is subtle, subdued, and I see things differently, far more aware and accute.
It's like my body builds the anxiety to a point where I can no longer handle it and then it just lets it all go.
I have been trying to stifle the build up so that it never happens. I will be making videos pertaining to this situation in the future.
I love these people that think it's fake! So the struggles that I have been going trough, over the last fifty years of my life are fake! This is a real life threatening disease, similar to diabetes! The similarity being that with either disease, if you don't get help, can kill you!
some people are just uninformed, ignorant, and self absorbed, I never let feeds on youtube ever effect me since I know the truth, fact, and knowledge not to listen to some others. You are right and I stand with you but there is no changing the minds of a comment that seems to have no mind to expand.
And that's why we have the Darwin Awards!!
Everyone on UA-cam is an armchair psychologist. Ignore them. Too many religious nuts and wannabe Ph.D's commenting on something they know NOTHING about.
Mental illness is not fake/caused by demons/created by Big Pharma or anything else. It's a disruption of thought, mood and behavior caused by a malfunctioning brain. The only treatment is therapy, medication and healthy living.
Eflat Productions Why are you saying that you are living a bad life? Don't you take the medication? I would like to know that thanks
I have that too
I am bipolar type 1. I was diagnosed 2.5 years ago. The medicine helps but I still go thru a lot of ups and downs.
Well sometimes I just want my brain to stop working, full stop! Thanks for this video, great information. I was misdiagnosed with Depression and treated with Paroxetine 30mg for 10 years. During that time, I knew it wasn't right. I had short panic attacks out of nothing perhaps 1 a month, I was irritable, impatient, very enthusiastic about my job to an extreme of becoming unmanageable and sickly demanding with others. I didn't care about anyone in my team, I just cared about getting the job done, regardless everyone else's limitations. Around me everyone felt the need to play superman. And how I enjoyed it...! I felt I was better than anyone else (perhaps only a couple of exceptions) in my team, better than my boss, better than my manager... and I felt irritated and agitated by their lack of interest in the job... I would be manipulative into getting everyone thinking I was the best that ever happened to them, and I would play perfection full time, to detriment of others... 9-10 years of Mania... I knew I wasn't right. Until one year I broke down, and lost all my attention spam, short term memory, couldn't multitask anymore, couldn't prioritize tasks, couldn't work under pressure if someone was watching. Couldn't understand what people really meant, couldn't make sense out of anything...started having panic attacks 2-3 times a week. That is when I quit my job. I lost all ability to organize simple tasks, such as getting dressed, having a shower or brushing my teeth... That is when finally I found my Psychiatrist, who thought might have Bipolar Disorder and the Paroxetine for 10 years suspended me in a ongoing Maniac reality. Till the day I hit rock bottom... Now trying to understand the disease, adjust meds (quetiapine) and my own persona to this newly perceived reality (it feels like I have been sleeping for years and just now the blind has come off my eyes), coming off Paroxetine is hell (they never told me how addictive it was before, I wasn't allowed an informed decision) , but well worth the effort. Perhaps I still can glue some bits back and act like a normal person for the first time in my life.
Maria Joao Gomes I want to slow down time. I'm type 2 and it's really tough at times.
Mania for 10 years sounds like hell
I was diagnosed as Bipolar 15 years ago and I've thought about it ever since. I've been terrified it would always be there, that I'd never have a normal life. I do feel a duty at times. I want to please my fans and face up to the fact that I do suffer with mental health issues but I'm fighting back! It's time for you to relax and let someone in, let someone else take control. I could do with the strength you have! Well done! X
bipolar type 1 for years . Quit Meds five years ago and jog daily plus music is my savior. I have fully accepted it it ain't easy but I Managed to deal with it on a daily basis.
The trial and error of meds really effed up my life more than it ever helped! Some meds I made a complete ass out of myself because the changed me so much!- and I have a good seven months of my life I can't remember !- seriously, can't remember a damn thing. ( klonopine)
Stopped meds 7 years ago, and really got my shit together,... Business owner, married, productive life😊
Kudos to you for managing with running etc.
and YES music will make or break me hehe
+Ashley Castro I'm very happy for you Ashely well done!
@@HouseofCastro bipolar losts all the bipolars life we will have to give People the reality of bipolar a Doctor has to accept bipolar biological compount these emotions of depression and mania are true emotions . Emotional intelligence is worthless to People with bipolar you have to accept that bipolars need better therpies And Doctor,s have to beware of medications that cause bipolars emotional pain as it happened to me .
How do you manage bipolar without meds?
There is really no way out of this without real help from others that you can trust--Help that helps a bi polar patient move forward, not helping by damaging them further with Stigmatized Abuse and Abandonment. I am not a drug addict, I have a brain disease.
does anyone here believe bipolar is caused by traumatic events? this video helped me.
I believe it is a contributing factor but I also believe it's hereditary too. There's no cure for this horrible disease, it robs you of your life.
Trauma can help cause mental illnesses for sure. Depends a lot on type of trauma.
Eva Madrigal I was physically abused as a child, and I whole-heartedly believe that it triggered my bipolar disorder
At the age of 23 I had a baby. 4 months after I had my baby I ended up in a psychosis and was hospitalized and diagnosed as being bipolar 2 disorder. I had gone back to work after having the baby. My husband was not supportive. We were buying a new house....all of the stress and changing of my body and hormones became too much for me. My son is now 15. I was hospitalized in 2007 to get meds adjusted and in 2009 because I had depression. I've been out of the hospital for 10years and I'm doing ok.....yes I have good days and bad days but I keep at it day by day. I love my son and life.
@@japparaz8066 so sorry to hear that...i was sexually abused and was in an unhealthy relationship with my husband.
MY BEST FRIEND IS BIPOLAR AND THE GREATEST PERSON I KNOW.....
Thank you bipolar illness is one of strongest emotions one will experience and PTSD is the strongest anxiety in neurosis so there of strongest emotions in history. Mania : depression And panic are the three of worlds strongest emotions.
i need support with this illness
James Sykes I hope you're doing well and got the help you needed. Bless you my friend. :)
im ok but still not got the help i still need ... thanx bless u back
go the drug line. that should do it
please reach out. a community group.church group. someone loves you more than anything.
Good for you!!! I have had a very stable life in spite of my illness. I have had huge catastrophes that I have had to stay on my feet such as an abducted child. If there is anything I can do to help you please pm me on Facebook under T.J. Simon - I have never been hospitalized in 30 years. I am in Spokane Washington.
I had to watch this because recently, I have been suffering irritability and anger along with wicked anxiety. When I get angry I have these homicide images going in my mind and it feels as though I really want to hurt them. I love the people I care about. Also, I often times struggle to get out of bed. Because of that it's easy for me to fall into a state of depression and then it would turn into anger and irritability once more. I don't have manic symptoms like what someone with bipolar 1 would have, but I do have impulses, suicide ideation occasionally, grandiosity, and a good chunk of symptoms that would posssibly confirm my family's suspicions of Bipolar 2. I don't believe I'm on the correct antidepressants and have been misdiagnosed. I plan to bring my mom with me to my next appointment with a nurse practitioner to help confirm if this is what's going on. I am also undergoing therapy. Hopefully I can get to the bottom of this so I can get better.
I* was diagnosed with SEVERE ADHD in 1977, Im 45 now. , My battle with depression began in 1992, which normally that is when the onset of depression occurs in the early 20's. in addition I also suffer miserably with PTSD> , anyway the incomprehensible levels of pain we endure are beyond words unless you have it!! and my illness has progressed now to where my moods bounce back and forth from Elation to EXTREME MELANCHOLY. Its frightening as hell and now II'm quickly losing the war after 30 + years*
when I was diagnose with bipolar type2 I cried and ate a lot of food
Well if i am going to live forever i am going to need miraclious healing are i will live with bipolar for eternity there would have to be biological healing .I have bipolar i am on medications yes .
Im bipolar 1 with psychosis,severe PTSD,BPD,
ADHD
Ive been on meds since i was a teen. Im 41 now. It's been a nightmare. My last suicide attempt i took a bottle of sleeping pills. 120 of them. I ended up on life support for 3 days. It was pretty close. They asked my family if they wanted to talk to a chaplain. After i had to go around with oxygen. My throat was messed up because of the tube. I sounded like a man lol
Bipolar is deadly. Ppl ive known in my past with bipolar are dead due to suicide. Apparently im lucky to be alive at 41. Ive watched my daughter get married and have my granddaughter. My youngest getting jobs and she found the one she likes. A hard worker. I remind myself that if i were not here I would not be apart of any of it. Those times where i look around and im happy to be alive. But the sad thing is when i get depressed I dont feel that way. Depression so bad it hurts to do anything. Brush my teeth seems like a huge thing. Psychosis i think my loved ones are after me trying to kill me. Poison me. Ill hear them whispering and think they are talking about me. A nightmare. I have many other symptoms. To much to type.
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I was diagnosed about 2009. I had never heard of bipolar before my diagnosis. I also have ptsd and I always thought that the two was the same thing that it was two sides of the same coin. Because every time I go through a traumatic event I then go through these types of symptoms. All these years I have dismissed bipolar as being of anything of any significance because for me the symptoms of bipolar run side to side with my ptsd. What I'm trying to say is that I'm grateful for the video. I now have more understanding of what I am.
Hi. I have Bi Polar Disorder and was releaved when I was diagnosed. I was happy to know that I was not a "bad person". I often felt like I was ungrateful and this was because I experienced anxiety as well. Thanks to my doctor I am on medication now and I do feel there is hope. Where there is life there is hope.
What's with all the people saying religion is the answer. If God could help then doctors would give you a referral to a church not a psychologist.
czr7j9 Every person is free to think the way they want to think, leave them alone. You are saying a rational statement but not thinking in what other beliefs.
God may or may not heal you but he will make the whatever pain you're feeling, feel less painful.
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***** yeah i kept dreaming that i was flying and after being in hospital 3 times im now free of ll symptoms...Gods love is ammazing u should try it sometime;0
Neon Effect u clearly lack intelligence if u have to use foul language... Just saying
I am type 1, took a step to stop taking meds prescribed, and my life got way better. Those meds make me look like an idiot and it pull down my self worth, hence make me more depressed. Now that i stop taking it, i succesfuly build home business so i don't have to deal with other people. I am easily iritated to work for others. I know nobody read this anyways, but if u do, you can deal with this illness. You dont have to rely on meds, instead just focus on your growth and develop your skills daily. Dont let others tell you what to do, its not that bad.
I read your comment and agree
Agreed, I cant work for others either. Anxiety runs rampant, its just plain stupid to me to even bother trying to adjust to traditional methods more so explaining to people at the workplace my condition. Im getting better though and acceptance is key. I will just keep going.
Different treatments for different people. I have issues with working as well.
Yes, as long as you find ways to grow when you realise you are going through a bipolar episode
Living with bipolar has been hell. Thank god for the drugs that treat it.
***** Lamictal is great.
Yes, it's a terrible illness. I went through very dark times myself. I take Trileptal and Zyprexa. They are great but I put on so much weight :(
***** i was diagnosed at 40...before that i thought it was just me...took ativan from 33 to 40 then when they diagnosed me and found i could not synthesize lithium, a trace element/salt, from food then i was put on lithium...that seems to work...along with a SSRI anti depressant....it is tough i am telling you....i believe that bi polar runs in families...good luck
Laura Pearson I'm on Effexor 375 mg and Lamictal 400 mg and neither of them have caused me any weight gain. My predominant mood is depression, hence the high dose of the antidepressant. The Lamictal has been a great mood stabilizer. I still get depressed and rarely hypomanic but the episodes don't last long enough to be of any major concern. I'm also on 30mg of Buspar twice a day for anxiety. If I can keep the anxiety down then my moods are more stable.
God gave you bi-polar...SCIENCE gave the cure...
Truth be told...there is no god..and if there is then according to the bible he created EVERYTHING...including every sickness and every disease and ALL death and war...So you would have to be a complete psychopath to love such a monster...
The church used to burn "witches" alive...Do you even know what was a witch? Well back then it was someone who used herbs and medicine to heal...rather than wasting there time with prayer...so who they burned alive were SCIENTISTS...
give the credit to the correct source or maybe the correct source will stop caring...
Awesome...grazie...I have bipolar y in treatment for several years...🌅💛 my life is so much better..I was born with it y certainly has been a long time coming...I praise god for the awareness y support it is essential..genetics play an important part....nothing to feel ashamed of ...it is a brain disease...for people who do not understand...pray for them❤..life is a gift y we are blessed...great documentary...💛✌
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Thankyou for caring enough to share
interesting documentary. the people are very kind to share their experiences with others. perhaps, it has helped people
I'm one of you
please stay alive frens
My brother has bipolar disorder and he and he smokes pot to keep him from going crazy
I do too. It works well.
Pot helps better than anything with the bipolar.and you don't have to put up with the bullshit from these doctors that really don't get withdraw symptoms.sometimes you can't get in to see the doctors in time.and they will let you suffer until you get to see them its such a crock.and some of these doctors act just as sacked as us
I dont think that works i mean maybe from getting mad and lashing out at people but weed is a downer so overtime your just going to very depressed and so another mental illness in top of ano nope not for me
Thanks for sharing. I don't have bipolar but seems very debiltating for those that do.
I'm going through this, look I have some great advice. Enjoy the mania, meaning be creative, perform tasks use the excess energy to live strong, better yourself! When the depression comes understand that it is here right now but will slowly dissipate. I have 2 degrees both honors and I have my bi polar to thank. Use this disease to your advantage, know your cycles and absorb the change.
wow? i ❤ thes video. i have bipolar 1 my mother had it, my oldest sister has if and my son has bipolar as well. my daughter yellsat me and says that bipolar doesn’t exist! i. was very sickthis last time she did that to me. she kept yelling and told me that wasn’t sick either. she said i’m a nurse, i work at a hospital. sick is when you’re about to die! i was in a manic episode then and i was having severe headaches too, every day. i hung up on her and thought about how incensitive and unloving too. i finally made a horrible decission.i wont ever speak to hear again and try to think i never had her!😢😢😢 so when she calls me, i just hang up the phone. she has done similar things to me for years and i know that she’s giving me emotional and mental abuse! i refuse to take it anymore. i am angry and sad at the same time. the headaches are ongoing every day. when i was manic i couldn’t sleep for almost six days, got shakes very bad and lost my balance. so i had a hard time getting up and down and i could hardly walk! i had to grab the wall to get to the bathroom or my bedroom, etc.. i lost strength and just laid there for long times. i hate having bipolar and diabetes.they have ruind my life! i really care others and pray to God that they get the help that they deserve.i hope someone will readthis long post.maybe write back to me . i’m very lonely and i don’t have anyone to talk with. please write to me.
omg im about to cry, cuz i wake up every night like she did in the video. im so scared yall.
I hope you were able to find help.
me too :\
Very good! There really is a stigma against Bipolar still, and sometimes I feel very ashamed. The family I came from saw it as a weakness. The family I have now is better about it, but most of them usually have no idea what I go through. This video is quite good, and it's not so easy to find one that describes my own experiences with bipolar disorder. I'm getting medication; but unfortunately, the dr appts are rather expensive for my family, so I feel guilty for that.
Thanx! :)
also it's good to see a woman closer to my age talking about this. Usually it's younger people or men for some reason
Ha! It's been a long while since seeing this. I was going by the picture at the beginning; but still
okay I watched it again, and i do appreciate the diversity etc :)
My family dis credited it completely. They said it's all in my mind, I don't have any dis order. Nobody understands!
Very good info for everyone ! As 1 in 4 are affected. Thank you . I'm bipolar , as was my mom , grandma.
Affected with some sort of mental illness I meant
Recently diagnosised as mixed bipolar on top of generalized anxiety, insomnia and depression. At 14 I was diagnosised with a mood disorder.
ive had problems as a kid, trauma which I think caused my anxiety. I have been diagnosed with moderate-severe anxiety and i fear it might be accompanied by bipolar disorder. i was a straight a student and very positive and had a lot of friends for about 5 years. when things set in and I started to really understand what I experienced as a child I got depressed and my anxiety was beginning. I started self harming and I would go into shame spirals and have violent thoughts, that i still have. thoughts of being violent towards others and myself. I know who I want to be and what I want to do to succeed but I can't. i give myself a plan and I try my best to follow through but then the next few weeks or days i feel like "does it really matter?" and how in the whole universe does this really matter. and it really does I jut can't get myself to do it. I'm really uneducated about this I think but I think I have mixed bipolar symptoms. I once took one of those lousy online quizzes and it resulted very high, I took more and more and I got scared and started researching it. my anxiety level almost always fairly high, I think about the outcome and possible outcomes of everything possible. let's say once I finally get myself to go outside and walk I see someone walking behind someone else. nothing weird or shady about the situation and I just imagine and fear for the person that they're going to get kidnapped or murdered or raped. I think at times I see people with knives or that they're staring at me when im almost certain it doesn't happen. it's either my anxiety or paranoia. as a joke I've been called "schizo" or "bipolar" and im actually wondering, and concerned. am I just paranoid/ anxious or is there something wrong with me?
I have been dealing with bi polar and ptsd my whole life practically before I even knew it was bi polar I got a DX three years ago and I am still struggling I am on my 3rd outpatient treatment because of these struggles i had taken dbt (dialectical behavioral therapy)what are some of you guys coping strategies
+Shellarie Pickens JESUS IS THE ANSWER MY FRIEND
Jesus. Meds. Balanced and healthy life-style and good companions.
I know I am late to the comment thread for this video. While the video is very good, I find it does not address meditation or the spiritual aspects of depression. I am not commenting against people following their doctor's advice or against medication. However, mental illness is almost always labelled as an inherited disorder and seldom addressed for its origins in early trauma and a fragmented and isolated sense of self. A more enlightened society might provide the necessary support while at the same time treat a person's breakdown as a celebration, that the person might have the chance to wake up spiritually, to free themselves from the confining sense of self that isolates them. Instead, people are encouraged to get it under control and fit back into the box. It is no measure of mental health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
i cant take this anymore, i think i have bipolar for years.
Please talk to someone and try to get help.....if you don't, I suggest you try to take care of yourself the best you can...please talk to someone.
I just hate having this disorder, I need medicine to survive, but I am a tired overweight shell of my former self. Screwed out of a life for For life
I told my mom i needed my prescription when we moved I lost it. she threw me out and told me to get a job. my medication was not right neither. I struggled with a baby, now I have my own place. my brother moved in his gf in my parents house. she lived five years rent free. She was really annoying my mom said to take her out and spend on her. She is sick.
May God bless these people and their families and be with them always.
having manic depression most of my life, and have had 12 sessions of ECT, i can say they were the worst thing i have ever had to treat my condition, so it doesn't work for all...
Yeah like when I told my mom that I felt like the symptoms of bipolar seemed to be clear to me at this age of twelve. I told her. But all she says is, you're strong you don't need help.
this was very informative, thank you.
I have bipolar, Shit sux and it's cliche to say no one understands but like if you don't have bipolar you don't understand and I have no friends who do. Bipolar has drained me of all my will to try anymore because every time I do I just get manic and ruin my life even more so I've pretty much decided being a loser is something I have to live with and that when I die I won't have to care about how guilty and dissapointment that makes me feel.
I have depression and a bipolar disorder and it effects me everyday I can't get help cause no one helps me, my life at home is horrible my mom and everyone treats me like shit. I can't seem to trust anyone with my problems. I don't know what to do anymore I'm scared and I know I need help before I really do something to hurt myself. who and how do I get help. I feel so out of it.
people with bipolar can also meditate and do breathing practices . bcause it helped me so i recommend to do it.
in my experience none of psychatrist could not even able to figure out how do feel
Hi
It’s great to see Ralph from The Sopranos!!
I can most assuredly identify with Greg with Effexor causing a manic phase. Caffeine as well. In fact, that is a real question I have with the disorder. How many people that experience BiPolar Disorder have a hard time metabolizing caffeine. To my body, it is as dangerous as alcohol...
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Brad Barfield Musical Endeavors Caffeine has a powerful effect on me as well. Def equivalent to alcohol/drug taking. I occasionally have it in very small doses (when I'm really desperate for help to focus, near deadlines and that sort of thing), but even one small coffee in the morning puts me into a state of hypomania for the rest of that day.
Well guess what Im 13 not even 13 im 12 turing 13 in a few weeks and I suffer from bipolar 1 and I drink caffeine and I don't know think it's affects me not sure I know Im very young to even watch This but I fell like need to cause I fell like I need to be well more educated on bipolar
Coffee is benign
Brad Barfield Musical Endeavors Sometimes I drink coffee...but not when a manic phase kicks in ...
I also have bipolar, and it controls my life very much, have loving friends, but hate having it most off the time!
My bf has bipolor and sucidial ida.and s.effective disorder I been with him 14 yrs I throught I could understand but I learned that know matter how I want to understand but u can never understand inless u have it your self. I try to be supportive some times hereing him talking about ending things scard me once he was out of it completely and he walked into the kitchen grabbed the biggest knife pulled his shirt of and he back up on the canter and he was on his tip toes and he raised it up over his head twice and the 2 time I had to scram at him to snip him out of it. That was the frist time I've ever seen him try attempted to carry it out he's was mumbling things I could not understand that was one year ago, he's still not on the right medication and now his 15 year old son is staring to talk about ending things he lives with him mom but but she gets scard to when he talks like that. It's so hard to knowing u can't really help them but all u can do is be supportive some times I feel like just leving him but I can't bring my self to do so bc I love him im just scard that I might wake up and might find him dead .he hasent been attempting now not that I've seen any way but what more could I do for him I teyd every thing I can thank of to help him
I struggle with binge eating and am already obese. I think I may be bipolar 2 from doing my own research but am waiting to see what a therapist thinks. Im scared bc I don't want to be put on meds that makes my eating habits worse. I can't handle gaining anymore weight. I already worked so hard for a year and lost 50 lbs. Im scared of taking something that makes me gain it all back plus some. And please don't say "is being skinny more important than your mental health" bc for me it is a part of my mental and physical health. I'm miserable being fat. I don't want to hear any of that. I want to know will a doctor help you find meds that don't make u gain wieght?
They all make you gain .I am n the same mind set as you and being even bigger than I am is a real hindrance to my mental health.. it is
Very informative, helps me very much thanks.
Bipolar disorder is 80% inherent. I didn't know that, yet I have seen family members on both sides, struggle.
You have no idea how important this is ... for us ... the aliens. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I am in tears. I live this.
I can feel you as i myself am Bipolar😢
Usman Q. Malik Hugs😃
+Nesia Rattray God bless you *hugs back*
It's difficult. We are resilient,brave and determined individuals. If you know you know. Group hugs.
I argue that all medications for mental illness are addictive in that their withdrawal symptoms are severe and can be long lasting.
SG W you must not have to deal with this illness. Ignorance is bliss
From all the research I've done in the last 10 years, his statistic of 80% inheriting the disease from relatives is WAY out of whack. I'd like to know where he got that from? Or did he just pull it out of thin air?
10 years of surfing the net ?
Yeah my grandpa too.
Valium is definitely not the right choice of meds for depression or anxiety. It is only for acute situations. I suffer with this too. God bless you Dear Lady!
I have very rapid mood swings and it sucks, especially when I get the mother of all depressions. Past week I have been cycling between mixed state and depressed over and over and over again.
ziggyzap1 3 months and many medications later I am now on a anti-psychotic, I only have hypomania and little mood swings but depression is terrible
I was diagnosed with having bipolar right around my second or third year of anorexia. I also have a receptive processing disorder (trouble following instructions, understanding terminologies and trying to figure out how to do some tasks on my own, though I keep trying, it doesn't look like it) and a mild (if there is such a thing) OCD. . . . I take meds, but I get no help from friends or family. How sad is that!?
+JoAndra Van Dowall The family doctor also told me I have anorexia. But I thought she's a dumbass since I don't eat because I don't feel the need to, I feel shitty most of the time, down. Is it anorexia even If you're not eating and then sticking your fingers in your mouth to puke so you look slim ?
In the last months I thought I may have aspergers, and now this has come to my mind. I obssess over things as well, am very irritable, innapropriate I would say, and done weird things that after I got past the "high' state I was scared of myself, thinking I went insane. I have periods of mind blindedness and feel most of the time I'm living in a dream. Do you think I may have it? Thank you. I have to wait a few more months before visiting a psychiatrist, I always thought I'm just fucked up inside the head.
+JoAndra Van Dowall Do they know you have bipolar disorder ? Are they aware of the seriousness of depression/mania ? You should maybe go to a doctor with one of the family members and have him explain to them, since they might think you exagerate or something. People aren't generally mindreaders, and just assume you are like them, and should behave like they do. Or watch a movie with them about the disorder. I'm sorry, it's not my bussiness to give you advices. I just want to help you, because I have severe depression most of the time, I don't even feel like living anymore, and people just assume I have too much time on my hands. I'm in a similar place in my life.
+Lucian Zarnescu Purging your meals is called bulimia. I've had that after the anorexia, so the combination of not eating anything for awhile, then hurl everything I do eat is called bulimarexia. No, you're not messed up in the head. Brain chemicals are different for everyone and too many times people assume what your thinking and feeling.
JoAndra Van Dowall Yeah.. thank you kindly !
+Lucian Zarnescu You're welcome kindly!
I remember being in grade school and wishing I could start the next day is someone else
I'm Bipolar Type 1 - Also Bipolar: Sting (Police), Jimi Hendrix, Mozart, Beethoven, Jim Carrie, Robyn WIlliams, Ted Turner, Catherine Zeta Jones, Mel Gibson, ISAAC NEWTON, Peter Gabriel, Sinead OConnor, Cheri Oteri, Brian Wilson (beach boys), Axl Rose, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, Kurt Cobain, Peter Wentz (fallout boy), Vivien Leigh, Marylyn Monroe, Carrie Fisher, Russell Brand, Amy Winehouse, Stephen Fry, Frank Sinatra, Demi Lovato, Richard Dreyfuss, Kim Novak, Virginia Woolf, Macy Gray, Kristy McNichol, Linda Hamilton,
Charles Dickens, Maria Bamford, Burgess Meridith, Patty Duke, Jack London, Florence Nightingale, Jackson Pollock, Adam Ant, Ray Davies (Kinks), Dick Cavett,
Florence Nigthingale too? hmm, interesting
When I Feel Depressed I Tend To Eat More And I Want To Stop I Need Professional Help.
the MANIA is so high that it takes over the LOWS are crushing and debilitating . Treatments need to be less complicated ? please and thank you
I suffering from bipolar. I'm on depression mood now. It's so bad. I'm very sad to have this kind of mental illness.
Yep, it is! Hugs for u!
very informative about symptoms
Medicine's major metric of success involves returning a person to a functioning role in society.....
Not on wellbeing
Not on contentment
Not on connection
.....once you're back to work and not vocally or physically displaying emotion, you're forgotten about....unless you "lose ground"
Then you're the focus of attention again.
永，无论你有多少的士窝达，你都是我心中永远的爱人，你是上帝赐予我的最完美的礼物！不要让任何窝达影响你的自我评价！尽管各种各样的症状可能会引起我们的情绪变化，我要努力学习如何好好的去面对你的各种烦恼，陪同你一起度过这段艰辛的时光！我爱你！永！
And everyone being considered for a bipolar diagnosis ought have a detailed sleep history taken as well as complete a sleep study.
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I have a parasomnia. Which is separate from events of waking startled. It turned out the startled wakings were due to cardiovascular insufficiency. I had known they were not panic attacks and had to advocate to much to finally get a proper diagnosis and helpful medication.
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Health is a whole body/mind things.
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I still have bipolar one diagnosis. I just also have a heart condition that if I had let doctors continue to dismiss as anxiety, I might have died in my sleep as anti-anxiety medications can worsen the heart problems I have.
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Be careful everyone. Hugs
This cleared up my questions. Thank you.
My brother was diagonsed with conversion disorder now he is angry all the time swears to parents brother sister doesnot go out of home quit his job and thinks he is fine he doesnt want go see the doctor either. we as family member dont know how to deal with him
Very good documentary. Been thru it all with my ex. The manic episodes especially the last one before I finally divorced him, was the worst thing I have ever been thru. He refused help. Had to divorce him . Was going thru hell with him. Terrible situation for my kids....He was a classic case
Thank you for this video it is just like this for me I tried for years to tell my doctor it was something more them major depression because I would get on these highs and then the bottom would drop out and here comes the depression it is crazy and my brain would not shut down when mainia kicked in i would barely get 4 hours of sleep.
The cycling of moods is sometimes called kindling. Do some research on it if you want
As a bipolar individual I found this film very offensive. In the introduction random people are surveyed about what they think about bipolar. Not only is the way those individuals refer to "them" as though bipolar people are a different, more infantile version of a human, the various misconceptions espoused about bipolar disorder, for example that it is caused by hormone imbalance, are never corrected or explained. Nothing new is revealed about the disorder and the actual experiences of bipolar people is barely discussed in this film. The repetitive message of the "documentary" is basically "living with someone with bipolar disorder is hard" and "bipolar people get really depressed and that's hard to be around" without taking a look at the perspective of the actual bipolar individual. The topic of what it is like to stay in a mental institution (aka "hospital") is avoided regardless of the fact that it is a terrifying experience undergone by many bipolar individuals who are locked up and treated as a mix between a convicted prisoner, retarded child, and senile senior by staff and doctors alike. Rather, the bipolar individuals interviewed are basically apologizing for their disorders and continuously taking accountability for their issues. On this note, the contribution of traumatic events to bipolar episodes is only barely mentioned and is not discussed. Overall this film is not informative in any way and serves to perpetuate stereo-types and misunderstandings.
Thanks for the heads up, I was in the process of downloading, I am not watching this crap now.
I also found it disturbing that the misconceptions were not immediately corrected. Some text on the screen would have been good, or a giant FALSE stamped over the person.
Word! Couldn't have said it better.
+Jermoni Joseph Too bad, because it's a good video! Stephen Fry also has a video on the subject!
Almost would think your huge definition defines you.
I suffer from bipolar and schizophrenia. It feels like I'm living in hell or I'm prizoned to never escape. It really hurts when ppl don't understand. Or treat me like I'm only dumb. A walking disease. Ppl just don't understand. I'm really kind. Also very sensitive. It hurts when ppl tell me they care about me. But then treat me like I'm a burden. All I do now is apologize for what I feel. Cause I'm treated like it's a bad thing. It's hard to be close to anyone. Even if I wanted to be. Ppl complain I'm too sensitive or ppl envy me because I'm on SSI. Something I never had a choice in. And yes I can live independent and do right so ppl don't think I have it. It's hard to tell ppl. But it's not a choice. We who suffers this has no choice. Something's we just can't help. But we do have feelings. Some is the disorder but the other half is our real feelings.
I feel you. People do not have the same compassion for mental illness as they do for physical illness, 90% of which is also caused by early trauma and the subconscious mind. Society is mostly addicted to the illusion of personal doership and free will, therefore blaming the mental illness victim whereas they don't hold the physical illness sufferer with the same "responsibility".
Mental illness can be a tremendous spiritual opportunity for awakening. The suffering is so extreme that one may find a place in which one considers finding out who they really are and abandoning their illusory self concept. The liberation that can come from this is not something the average person finds themselves suffering enough to seek out. The awareness that sits behind the self concept, that swirling, self-referential storm of thoughts, is the peace that knows no understanding.
I encourage you to meditate and sit with it without treating the feelings as something wrong, to be gotten rid of. Check out Joe Dispenza's material and also research somatic experiencing as it relates to recent discoveries in neuroscience.
DIALECTICAL behavıoural therapy heps a lot.
i have alot of trouble getting sleep and feeling rested.exhausted lately.
I don't know why i was born this way it runs in my family i hoped to never get it but when i turned 16 i did...and now im finally realizing that my dream for becoming an astronaut will never come to fruition should i just give up living i have a gift for music but i want to go to space....because I know i was put on this earth to do that....oh the agony of living this hell sometimes i wish death upon myself for i know that a life worth not living is hell enough as opposed to killing ur self and going to hell...i just wish had i been born without this mentality if not had i been born at all....:..(
I thought that chick was Melissa McCarthy, and then it said her name was also Melissa, I freaked, yo.
is she not? :O omg they look so alike!
the problem with bipolar depression is that i underwent fight ( tug of war )in the mind over a single thought for many years which makes drained of leading to disorders.this could not be explained through words.the reason to explain this is , i wanted to know people how i overcame this .
#meditation helps#
this why I mind my business think positive and a mind of my own
i wish people would stop describing mdd as,sad,no interest etc its utterly brutal..you cant walk talk eat sleep think your sick inside sobbing for weeks weird scary ideas agoraphobia panic ,rage,everything and more thank you
80%? is that if one parent has it or both? this is why I am not sure I want to become a parent :|
+xTommyGirlx I went to check online, some studies said if one parent got BPD, the likely hood to inherit the illness is around 10-15%... I'm confuse too. But I'm certain that you need to always prepare this might hit your kids one day.
yeah, it's kind of scary... then there's the whole idea of what it would take to conceive a healthy kid too while managing the condition during pregnancy. like, what are people supposed to do? go off of their meds?
@@SociallyAwkwardGirl_OG yep :(
Just putting it out there I strongly wonder about the possibility of some people being bipolar because of life circumstances and situations and history. I was diagnosed with bp 1 a few years ago but I go up and down a lot because of craziness and frustration Ive dealt with.
Yes. One may have a sensitive nature and genetic predisposition, but it is almost always early trauma that will epigenetically set off the condition, which then becomes a habitual mind-body addiction. Check out Joe Dispenza's material on this matter.
omg the guy at the beg and in the end is hilarious, came out of nowhere
I am and the only person in my life that is important has left me because of it. Now I'm alone
The People have disorder..must strong have friends.
I haven't being diagnosed yet but I definitely have all those symptoms those victims have stated.
The worst part is that my own family encourages me to kill myself when I think about it.
im diagnosed with bipolar 1 and im pregnant.. its really hard since i cant take mood stabilizer for it will affrct the baby.. what should i do? its really hard.. i cant sleep at night or in day
I feel your pain. I hope you are well and baby is fine 🙂
Thank you so much for the video.
Its 2pm on Friday and I've been awake since Wednesday morning with no drugs or coffee. I've done everything I need to do and I'm sat looking round for more. At the start of the week I wanted to hang myself. Do you think I'm bipolar?? 😂
Sending you the love of one who knows and understands. You do not want to kill yourself. What you really want is to die to the past, to die to your contracted sense of self and isolation. While on the surface this is made to sound simple, I know it's not. It requires some inner realization that you are meant to be here, that you are an integral part of the Universe and not separate from it, though it may feel that way. People can point the way, but almost no one is capable of giving you the unconditional love you deserved. That love is something you can find out for yourself, but only you can make the hero's journey and sit with yourself and inquire "who am I?" and be with those intense feelings long enough for them to transmute into acceptance. It's really tough and it's not your fault. But what you're going through is your own "karma". There is no running from it or medicating it out of existence. Come out the other side for making the journey and your suffering may turn out to be a gold mine.
Perhaps check out Joe Dispenza's material, as well as explore somatic experiencing as it relates to early childhood trauma.
The Universe is a paradox. On the one hand, all is one and and benign and at that level there is no suffering. But on the other hand it is dualistic and either pleasure or pain and the individual person does experience trauma and suffering. The suffering can be an ironic gift because without it you may never have found the need to explore these deeper, spiritual questions.
I have no friend i have no girfriend i just live in isolation over then 2 years in huge depression with ugly dreams and pain..my doctor said that he can not find the way to back in normal life because i have all simptoms of depression,only withaut insomnia.I am lost...