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Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse
I once ordered a $300 direct-marketing kit. It had all the stuff you need to start a business. I even got a business license and called it Wee Five Enterprises. Only trouble was, I didn't have anything to market. Guess I should have thought of that BEFORE I spent the money, which we could ill afford in those days.
Another silly thing I did when hypomanic was buy about 100 plants for my yard. Now, I love gardening, but I have to watch my back and knees because they're full of arthritis and I get sore for days afterwards. Well, I got everything planted---it took me from mid-afternoon till after dark---and on top of that I pressure-washed the patio. For FOUR HOURS.
The next day I could barely walk. But at least the yard looked good. LOL
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Gardening has been a recurring hypo subject for me as well. Right after my second child was born I got on a vegetable gardening kick but managed to spend just $80 on Amazon for books and seeds. I think I planted about a 6 square foot (HUGE I know) mini farm in my backyard that yielded absolutely nothing. I went into a few big hypomanic phases that year so I think things could have been much worse. I did not yet know I was BP, but I definitely knew there was a compulsiveness issues going on that I had to watch carefully.
And I've done the business thing a few times also. I probably spent $1200 on the my last genius idea alone, but over 2 years for a website I never ended up setting up. It's amazing how good some ideas seem to us for just a short period of time.
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Current meds : Lamictal 100 mg, more coming soon I'm sure, other meds for non-MI issues like Pramipexole for RLS but it's probably doing more for my mood I don't know about
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