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Aug 17, 2010, 03:37 PM
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So, I started school this morning. Everything is going well. I am happy to finally be doing something I want to do and on my own. :sigh-smile: My first class is psychology, so that should prove to be interesting. My prof was talking about what we would be going over this semester and neuroscience came up. Biology of the brain--"abnormalities" such as add, adhd, ocd, and bipolar disorders. It then hit me. BP is really a disease. Usually, when you hear the word disease, it sounds so dirty, like no one wants to speak of it. I have a disease that people are afraid of. Are they afraid of me as well? I was doing great till then. I have been thinking about it all day. I just spent the afternoon with my sister--she's 9 yrs older than me--and I absolutely cannot talk to her about it because she is one of those people, who are afraid of it. Kind of freaks me out when I think about it. Anyway, I guess I just needed to vent about this morning. My other classes are going well and I have a night class tonight, so wish me luck.
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Aug 17, 2010, 04:09 PM
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congratulations on starting school again. i start myself on the 23rd of this month. i will be taking Choctaw language and culture. know what you mean about other people being afraid. the media certainly reinforces that stereotype that all bp's are ax murderers or some such thing. i dont usually tell people im bp for that reason. good luck in school.
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Aug 17, 2010, 05:37 PM
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I took abnormal psychology this past winter quarter. I felt like a fly on the wall as they discussed the chapter on mood disorders and suicide. It was weird. It is a disease and there are biological differences between us and normal people. On brain scans we have an abnormally sized or damaged hippocampus due to overactivation and exhaustion of the adrenal cortical system. Depression actually hurts the brain. It is a real disease with physical implications. They are now showing that meds or ECT can actually stop the degeneration of brain systems and cells, and even regrow new ones. I think I'm on a good med combo now, finally, and can feel my brain functioning better every day. So take your meds...they may prevent brain damage if they're working right.
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Aug 17, 2010, 07:16 PM
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Yeah, thinker, my PMHNP was saying this just the other day.
Mady, one upside to it being a disease is the recognition and proof that it's not some kind of personal failing, as people have so often ignorantly thought. As these things get more widely known, people will (hopefully!) start to loose that ignorance and with that, eventually the stigma. Someday. And may it come soon! |
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Aug 17, 2010, 09:08 PM
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So good for you that you are starting school. Such a wonderfull thing to be able to handle. It becomes too much for me so I can't even finish the program I started years ago. The psychology/biology aspect of bp should be quite interesting for you to study. Give you another perspective on what you what we are all going through.
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Aug 17, 2010, 10:49 PM
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I always found going to school to be very fun. I took Abnormal Psych while I was in undergrad classes and really enjoyed it but that was before I was diagnosed. Try not to let it freak you out. Yes, BP is a real disease of how the brain functions. It takes a while to accept this. It will come.
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Aug 18, 2010, 01:44 AM
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I wish I wasn't an "abnormality". Scary to know it causes brain damage and degeneration. Just one more thing to cheer about.
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Aug 18, 2010, 03:38 PM
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Sorry about that Lauru. Didn't mean to upset anyone. The good news is the damage is reversible with the right combo of meds. And I don't think we're any more abnormal than a person with heart disease or diabetes. Everyone has something they struggle with. Normals are no better than we are. We just have to be stronger than them to survive our illness.
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Aug 20, 2010, 04:38 PM
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Lauru-------------That's me, Bipolar and Watching TV I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ---Robert Frost |
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Aug 21, 2010, 01:16 PM
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good luck! Ihope you have a great year this year!
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