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Originally Posted by general scott
i seemed to have slipped through the"system" till now at age 50 with bipolar-there is evidence i was one since my teens. i dont even know were to begin with questions-it feels too early like i just woke up from some kind of dream (not that i sleep much} i have a wife and one daughter. I value loyalty above most everything. If any of you real bipolars remember the strange firsts realizations of this when you accepted it as a fact, please,please let me know how you started to let go of the anger. respectfully, ran
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hello friend, just wanted to let you know you aren't alone,
I am 52 and just dx with bipolar. It has been one of those ah-ha years, like my eyes were opened for the first time. All of a sudden it makes sense, but until I got onto the right meds I felt harassed and angry. Now that I know what it feels like to get good sleep and began taking a mood stabilizer and antidepressant the irritation has lifted. I wish this would have been identified in my teens. What might have been avoided? I guess the being angry part comes before learning to accept our limits, to let go of the what ifs. Once I got over the "mentally ill" label I was relieved to have an answer for the myriad of things in my life that didn't work. Medication can help, it did for me and it also helped to talk about it.
I saw a poster in a counselors office, it said something like this "I don't have a disability, I have a different ability"... I think I am going to adopt that attitude.