[misboner]

Im basicly drowning I was diagnosed with biploar three years ago and still havent found the right meds the meds work for a couple months and then im back to cant get out the bed cant take my daughter to school just simply cant function my days are spent in the bed grazing out the window with tears flowing all day every day its hard to belive just three months ago I was a psyc major at school and working but now im just a former shell of who I used to be my family is no support because in there minds this is something I can just(snap out of it!) they dont think this is a real illness with real syptoms I guess you dont understand what you cant see Im still in denial myself that its there I want to so be symtom free and live my life take my kids to the park tickle and play with my four year old this illness has tooken my life is there any surviours of this illness and simply not a victim? if so please please reply

[h7shadow]

I know exactly how you feel. In Jan. my mom had to fly across the country to come take care of my 3 boys. I could not get out of bed, didn't want to shower, couldn't make a lunch or grocery shop or cook or clean....you name it.

I ended up bringing my whole family down. My mom and husband would yell at me when I couldn't get off the couch. Saying I was doing it on purpose, to pull myself out of it. Take a shower, don't come out of the bedroom till your dressed. It was terrible.

I was there for 3 months and then got on prozac from my primary care doctor and went manic again. I love the manic but am having major problems with my husband.

Just hang in there. This too shall pass. Take one day at a time, and even an hour at a time if you have to.

Hope you feel better soon.
Helene

[Amazonmom]

I was diagnosed a month or so ago. I have had bipolar for 16 years, and it has caused some problems for me. I failed out of grad school, my parents have no idea why I can't just snap out of it. Of course if my folks had believed that mental illnesses were real I wouldn't have cycled for so long without help.

I am trying to find meds that work for me. At first it was thought I just had depression, so I was given Zoloft. That sent me to the worst hypomania ever...and I bet I would have went full on manic if I hadn't decided that Zoloft was to blame for making me feel that crappy (WAY too anxious,and I knew the symptoms of mania from nursing school...I was really scared). Then I tried Lithium and Lamictal...which was working...but then I had a rare reaction to lamictal that could have killed me. Just Lithium for right now, but it is not helping the depression very well.

Let's hold on to hope together, okay?

[Slick399]

I have had bipolar illness 18 years and it is the lithium which has kept me alive and functioning along with a couple of antidepressants. In the eighteen years since this illness I have had some really healthy functioning times and other times where I could not function or work. It took 10 years for me to become stabilized with the right medications and I have taken a total of 32 different meds in order to come up with the right combination. I hung in there although I lived by myself. You can do it, too. You are also a survivor. Just by reaching out tells me that you would like to connect and survive. HANG IN THERE!

Slick