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#1
May 16, 2011, 02:33 AM
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You guys may not rememeber me, but I was on here a while back and found this Group and site really good.
I'm still Bipolar (lol), still have other psychiatric conditions and still a sober alcoholic in AA - 12 years now (Yeh!). I continue to live the drama drenched life of a person with serious and life-threatening mental illnesses - and it's certainly not drama that I court - I court peace. I am still on the Disability Support Pension (Australia) and may be forever, however I have had some good things happen. I received two financial settlements and that enabled me to buy an apartment in another town and I moved here 6 months ago. I was able to get away from some terrible family dynamics (rejection and profound isolation due to the stigma around mental illness but also unaddressed addiction and mental illness in my family). However, to my shock, when I moved here, I was at one of my first two or three AA meetings and I came into contact with one of my brothers who had moved here, each not knowing the other was coming here - an incredible co-incidence. He's so terribly ill with alcohol, street drug and prescription drug abuse as well as unaddressed mental illness. He's terrifying, is boiling over with rage at every point, is violent and aggressive. I have PTSD, actually CPTSD due to my childhood and as one of my three older brothers he was one of them who was violent and aggressive all the way though so you can imagine my CPTSD now. He has gone away to long term rehab and frankly, I wish he would go away and never come back, although I wish him the best in terms of his recovery. But he plans to come back here. Aaaarrrggghhh. It's 6 months since I have been here and two months before that I started arrangements for al my mental health clinicians and medical clinicians and it's only just getting sorted out and it's been such a mess on the behalf of various clincians that it's been, and continues to be, mind-blowingly stressful. I was very well looked after in the previous town and came a long way because of that, but it's been a very different deal here. But I hopefully have the various different clinicians in place now. So here I am, back to chat. |
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#2
May 16, 2011, 07:35 AM
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Hey there! Yup, I remember you. Good to have you back. Sounds like the last few months have had its ups and downs, but you are handling things well!
I hope PC continues to bring you the support that it used to. |
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#3
May 16, 2011, 09:52 AM
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Welcome back WendyAussie
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Favorite book on bipolar "Living with Someone who is Living with Bipolar Disorder" by Chelsea Lowe, 2010 Check out my blog The Bipolar Roller Coaster: http://blueoctober.psychcentral.net/ New Post March 23 "New Therapist" |
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May 16, 2011, 10:24 AM
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Welcome Back WendyAussie
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! ---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859. |
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#5
May 16, 2011, 01:13 PM
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OOoooohhhhh WendyAussie! I am sooooooooooooo glad to see you back!
 (I always worry when someone's away for such a long while, especially knowing they're in especially stressful circumstances as you have been...  )Quote:
 (moving... again). I'm glad it's starting to get sorted out for you! It IS unbelievably stressful and frustrating... May it ALL come together for you soon!!!
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May 16, 2011, 09:13 PM
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aussie, aussie, aussie, oi, oi, oi!
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May 16, 2011, 10:13 PM
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Am a new member, hello if anyone even hears me...I'm use to talking to myself so this comes easy for me, I was diagnosed when I was 15 yrs old with manic aggression depression disorder, and have live life or should say feel like life is more feeling of death in-side myself...seems my life only worsened as I aged and wondered just when or if life ever ended or why god was punishing me by even having me born.
anyway, as life worsened for me, finding out just a yr ago my daughter saved me I guess, to having a Dr re evaluated my disordered, come to find out I've been Bipolar and on the wrong meds for yrs... now being on new meds. I still feel life taking a turn iin-side myself and I'm just sick of being sick, or just sick of being me, sick of life and all the s...life if it is to take me but to no where... So my daughter thinks if I just have others with the same disorder as myself, she suggested to ck on line for support groups or such... So hear I am.... |
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#8
May 16, 2011, 10:28 PM
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Aussie, Aussie, - Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!! (Sorry everyone not Australian - it's just a thing of ours! lol)
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May 17, 2011, 12:56 AM
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and I'm a kiwi. Naturalised Aussie though. |
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#10
May 17, 2011, 03:24 AM
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Good to see you back!!!! Hope you can stay away from your brother.
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May 17, 2011, 03:32 AM
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Thanks BlackPup. Problem is we both go to AA so, if he does come back, we will run into each other multiple times a week. It's so ****** frustrating as I had officially "divorced" my family in writing and here I am, running into one of the sickest and most aggressive of them all.
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#12
May 17, 2011, 08:55 PM
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Is there another AA you can go to? How far away is the next town?
Glad you found a new place
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May 18, 2011, 02:14 AM
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Thanks BlackPup. He would be going to most of the meetings in other towns surrounding this town and because of my mental illnesses when I do have driving trips of any distance, even country train trips, I end up having psychotic Night Terrors and I can't push myself like that. I know that doesn't sound like enough to push someone into psychotic episodes but I have several serious mental illnesses and it's enough for me - so I need to stick close to the town I am in and go to the meetings here.
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May 18, 2011, 03:52 AM
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That sucks
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