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Registered: 03-25-2003
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Wed, 04-04-2007 - 8:34pm

do a roll call? LURKERS TOO! I feel new here all over again and I don't know anyone!

I'm Keli. 36 yrs old, and live in Tallahassee, Florida. I LOVE FLORIDA! I have a dh, and a 16 yr old son, and a doggy! I work in budget management for the State and have been there for 19 years. I'm a recovered borderline, have BP, and am stable on meds. I took many many years and a million different meds, but it happened.

Tell me something about you!

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Registered: 07-21-2005
In reply to: keli003
Sun, 04-08-2007 - 6:05pm

Hi. Im Rebekah and I am 29 and live in Tampa FL, I hate it here but looks like we will be moving further south soon and hopefully I will like it more. I am bp, not stable and on a new med every month it seems like, so far nothing is the magic pill for me. I also have anxiety really bad most of the time. I am married with two kids who are 8 and 7, a boy and a girl. I have been married for two years. I am graduating from college with my BA in Sociology in May and thats about all I can think of to say. Nice to meet everyone :)

Rebekah

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Registered: 03-29-2003
In reply to: keli003
Sat, 04-14-2007 - 11:46pm

I'm Dawn (37) and I live in NE Ohio with my ex-husband/fiance and two of my three dd's (15 and 17). My oldest dd is 19 and lives with her dh and ds at her mil's house.

Yes, I did say I live with my ex-husband! My BP had caused alot of havoc before I got a dx. It was mostly the hypersexuality (numerous IRL affairs and more online indiscretions than I care to mention) that caused the split, although we had other problems throughout the first seventeen years of marriage. I also had financial issues (maxed credit cards and hundreds of bounced checks) that contributed to the strain on our relationship. Things were starting to get better, but once he found out about the affairs, that was that. (Ironically, the very next day is when I was dx'd as BP.) The day the divorce was final, however, we left the court house and looked at each other with tears in our eyes. I think both of us knew right then and there that while the divorce is what we needed to do, it wasn't necessarily what we wanted. We knew we would be back together again someday. Six months later we started dating and six months after that we moved back in together.

I have an AAS degree in Mechanical Design and have worked as a Drafter/Designer since 1991. I also work part-time at Staples to help reduce our debt and save money for our wedding. (Great company to work for BTW. It makes it a little easier for me to accept that I need the part-time job at all.) I am hoping to get back to school in the next year to start work on the last two years of my BS in Mechanical Engineering Technologies. The strange thing is that I think my obsessive-compulsive tendencies serve me well in my work in engineering. The fact that I pay particular attention to detail gets me teased and yelled at at home but get me praised at work!

I think I have posted here a couple of times, but it's been a while. I have another board I post on here on iVillage, but I've been feeling the need to find people who understand me better. They are nice people, but I really don't think they "get" what makes me tick.

I hope to be around more. Nice to meet you!

 

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Registered: 02-15-2004
In reply to: keli003
Sun, 04-15-2007 - 8:27am

Hello all, my name is Gigi. I'm a bipolar by heredity. My father had it, now so do I. LOL! Anyway, I'm presently not medicated and I choose not to be. When I have my days of stress I do try and find different ways of reducing that stress. It's in my personal plans to got to school to become a Drug and Alcohol Counselor. Right now, I'm in the process of trying to find a job.

I'm also recovering from a life threatening car accident, which has left me with pins and screws in my left femur and my pelvis. I've healed just fine. I'm now onto improving my life on a day to day basis. I have had many unexpected occurances in my life that has shown me I do have the will to survive, grow and flourish.

Oh, and I'm not a newbie to this community.

Thanks,

Gigi

 


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