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Old Mar 25, 2012, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by bipolarmedstudent View Post
Things I have done while manic or mixed:
- thousands on ikea furniture and home organization in a month
ditto. I have ELFA shelving from Container Store occupying one fourth of my living room, waiting to be measured, priced and posted on Craigslist. The sad thing: when I was manic and buying all that stuff (and I now see that the shelving I bought was way too much even for the large rental house we occupied at that time), I had a psychiatrist. My first p-doc. And once I walked into his office with this huge paper bag from the Container Store (home organization store) that read "Contain yourself". A patient clearly ask the p-doc to contain her. And what happens? He under-diagnosed as BP II and undertreated as a result.