Newbie? Need some support...

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Newbie? Need some support...
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Wed, 02-15-2006 - 11:44am

I hope this is the right folder for this post.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 02-15-2006 - 12:23pm

Hi Kim and welcome! Boy, can I relate to your post and how you feel. Welcome to the world of being Bipolar (BP)...lol. The ups and downs...ugh. Its so exhausting. I'm Keli. 35 years old, 15 y/o ds, dh, live in Florida. I've been doing this whole BP thing for 5 years now...mine is what you call rapid cycling...or ultra rapid cycling...which is the most fun (not) kind you can have.

BP can be controlled. With the right meds, and a good psychiatrist (pdoc) and therapist (tdoc), it can be controlled. Yes, you will have good days, bad days, and those days you feel like you just can't go another second. But that's why we're all here. To help each other through and support each other...to laugh together through the good days too.

This board has saved me over and over and over a million times. I'm glad you found it.

Feel free to post anything you want! You're among friends.

Hugs,

Keli

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Registered: 04-06-2005
Wed, 02-15-2006 - 12:29pm

Hello and Welcome !!!


Can't say much more then Keli did.

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Registered: 02-24-2005
Wed, 02-15-2006 - 1:56pm

Thanks Ladies-


I just feel so lost right now, so this helps :-)


TTC is definitely top priority right now (2 years plus trying) so I will most certainly tell the pdoc.

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Wed, 02-15-2006 - 2:23pm
I don't know if its part of bp....but I do it all the time !!!!
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Registered: 07-08-2003
Wed, 02-15-2006 - 5:07pm

Hey Kim! Welcome! There is awesome support here. I've been posting to this board for about 3 months or so now so I guess I'm something of a newbie myself. I was unofficially diagnosed with BP about a dozen years ago but I tend toward mania and for some reason I totally loved being manic and so never got treated. I take antidepressants for depression but I never seem to get to those incredibly low lows some BPs talk about. I rarely even get depressed. But I'm manic and crazy as all get-out!!!!

I finally had to medicate for BP this past summer when some tragic circumstances pushed me over the edge. Friends tried to tell me that my behavior was "odd," extremely manic and looking for anything I could to soothe the mania. I finally couldn't live with the crazy, crazy ideas in my head and asked my pdoc for something to make the voices stop. I've been taking lamactil and trileptal since, with a pretty good result. I'm still crazy, I just don't have as many voices in my head as I used to!!!!

Welcome! Love, Mo.

mo 7-18-10

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 02-15-2006 - 5:19pm
disliking my husband...you bet.
actually part of that has been my process of getting well(my h "likes" me sick.he'd never admit it..denies it completely.
sad but true)
i'd love a new one!
just wait untill you ARE pg & your husband decides he must have grilled bleu cheese or something equally gross.you'll have his bags packed in a nano second.
don't listen to me tho...i differ from the norm here(hating my h & all that)
welcome to the board.
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Registered: 07-21-2003
Wed, 02-15-2006 - 6:11pm

Kim,

Welcome to the group!!! This is the right place to get support for bipolar. I understand what you mean about feeling alone. It will take time to get everything worked out with this "fun" (not) illness. It has taken me some time to admit that i am bipolar, but once I did I have been able to get stable. Welcome and goodluck.

cyndi

Cyndi

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Registered: 04-01-2003
Wed, 02-15-2006 - 10:06pm
I just joined recently and I can say that I have the same feelings that your having, being up and down a lot. It's so very hard dealing with these feelings. I hope we find something that makes us feel better soon. Lisa
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Registered: 11-14-2005
Thu, 02-16-2006 - 7:43am

Hi, i read your message and i think we are a lot alike. I feel the same way you do.
I am a newbie here also and we have a similar dog and lots of similar tastes. I loved your webpage. I have 3 kids, so i'm not really ttc anymore at this point!!!
i am lauren62577 on AIM, Yahoo and MSN if you wanna chat. gotta take the kids to school soon, but i'm never far from the computer.

Lauren

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Registered: 02-24-2005
Thu, 02-16-2006 - 7:45am

Let me just say that you ladies are amazing!

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