[DamianV]

-You do your homework, cook breakfast , watch an episode of the A-Team on hulu and are on the phone arguing with your health insurance provider as to why they raised their rates again...... All at the same time. Lol

-You argue with your mother (who is bipolar too but claims it's perfectly normal to be hyper and passionate about life after 4 failed marriages) over absolutely nothing for an hour straight.

-You can't take a power nap during the day if your life depended on it.

-You blow the remainder of your tuition money on a motorcycle even though you're unemployed and barely have enough to get you to the end of the month.

-Klonopin makes you feel "normal" for a couple of hours.

-You are doing 20 things at once as soon as you wake up but just can't seem to finish anything.

-You are having non-stop conversations with people in your head and are struggling to stay in the present moment.

-You've had a depression so bad that if feels like you're looking at the world through a fog.

-You get a little taste every once in a while of what it's like to feel normal before returning to mania or depression lala land.

-You overeat because you can't stop going to the fridge to see what else is in there. Lol

-Your mind is racing so fast it feels like the Indy 500 is taking place in your head.

-You're ego is overinflated causing you severe anxiety (fear about the future) or anger (resentment about the past).

-You just can't let it GO!

[Kmbpeace1171]

OH my gosh ty for this post, I can so relate & am definitely bipolar we should chat sometime about the HUGE ON IMPULSE move I made 2 years ago hee hee hee. I loved the one about buying a new motorocycle when u can't pay ur bills , When I was not diagnosed yet I used to do that except I bought electronics, laptop, camera, stuff like that. Ha. I really got a kick out of this, I am on lithium and am very stable right now but I do find I can multitask like a pro still do it now even tho Im' not working. Fascinating disorder when u think about it. Have a blessed day.

[dragonfly2]

Here's a link to an older thread that I think both of you would enjoy. You are in very good company here.

http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=170075

[Miss Laura]

You know your Bipolar when you

1. Start to deep clean the oven at 2am
2. Start 4 different projects for your Service Users while on a 10 hour Night Shift
3. When you feel and think you are indestructable/superhero
4. When you decide to beat staying up 24 hours to maybe 28 hours solid each day
5. When you decide meds are useless and your life is better without them

[Glimmerofhope]

Originally Posted by damianv

-you do your homework, cook breakfast , watch an episode of the a-team on hulu and are on the phone arguing with your health insurance provider as to why they raised their rates again...... All at the same time. Lol

-you argue with your mother (who is bipolar too but claims it's perfectly normal to be hyper and passionate about life after 4 failed marriages) over absolutely nothing for an hour straight.

-you can't take a power nap during the day if your life depended on it.

-you blow the remainder of your tuition money on a motorcycle even though you're unemployed and barely have enough to get you to the end of the month.

-klonopin makes you feel "normal" for a couple of hours.

-you are doing 20 things at once as soon as you wake up but just can't seem to finish anything.

-you are having non-stop conversations with people in your head and are struggling to stay in the present moment.

-you've had a depression so bad that if feels like you're looking at the world through a fog.

-you get a little taste every once in a while of what it's like to feel normal before returning to mania or depression lala land.

-you overeat because you can't stop going to the fridge to see what else is in there. Lol

-your mind is racing so fast it feels like the indy 500 is taking place in your head.

-you're ego is overinflated causing you severe anxiety (fear about the future) or anger (resentment about the past).

-you just can't let it go! :d

loved this post !!!x

[mgran]

When temazapam doesn't help you sleep at all. When you spend your money on tuition fees for a master's degree, but then can't concentrate on any of the modules. When you wake up one morning and decide to go to Africa instead of paying the rent.

- When you decide to start a home business for the 70th time, even tho you loose interest after a week every time.

-When the demeaning demanding voices suddenly become your own private cheerleading squad.

-When you decide to swap three rooms with each other including all the furniture and wall art at 3 am and you are done by 6 am.

-When you decide that your medication is making you walk at high speed instead of the preferred speed of light.

-When you've made so many lists, they are everywhere and you don't know what one you are on.

-When you write so fast in order to keep up with your thoughts, nothing is legible.

-When all of a sudden you are broke and don't know where the money went, a month later you discover a bunch of stuff hidden in closets with tags intact, still don't know where the money went.

-When you are thinking for hours and hours and cannot recall a single thing you were thinking about.

-When your thoughts become only blips of thoughts blip after blip

-When you decide its a good idea to invite the homeless people outside into your sister's corporate Christmas staff party, instead of them shivering on the other side of the window.

[DamianV]

Originally Posted by mgran

When you wake up one morning and decide to go to Africa instead of paying the rent.

I laughed so hard i think i peed a little reading this!

[DamianV]

Originally Posted by Anika

-When you decide its a good idea to invite the homeless people outside into your sister's corporate Christmas staff party, instead of them shivering on the other side of the window.

Harharharharharharharharhar !!!!

[Confusedinomicon]

When you watch a children's movie and it almost makes you bawl because you feel like the character on the screen.

[DamianV]

Originally Posted by Confusedinomicon

When you watch a children's movie and it almost makes you bawl because you feel like the character on the screen.

Just for the record, the movies WALL-E and Up made me cry like a 2 year old who dropped his ice cream cone! Lol

[butcheredxbutterfly]

As I found this morning -
- Having a general anasthetic and after coming round, not being tired at all. To the point where the nurses were shocked at my energy

[Nahla66]

When you bake 100 cupcakes,quit your job,discover you are a genius, decorate them, organise 2 seperate art exhibits on the phone,get messages from religous statues, wash the floors and paint the kitchen,volunteer to sing at a charity event you organised,say yes to everything!!! and all before 10am.
When you become catatonic in your depressions and cannot remember anything at all so the voices in your head tell you to make up that lost time when you are well,hypomanic and then before you know it in a full blown mania!

[fallfromgrace]

When you jump out of a 40 ft. tree even though you're afraid of heights because you sincerely believe you can do anything you set your mind to...

[Nahla66]

:rotflmao:

[Confusedinomicon]

When you have lapses in memory where you say and promise things but have no idea you did.

I sometimes feel like my body does its own things and I find out later what I've done. It's scary and annoying.

[mgran]

My son reminded me of one today.

Back when my husband was alive we decided to buy a new bed from IKEA. Before we got it to the car we realised we could get a shop display model, King Size instead of double, for half the price. Not surprisingly we decided to return the bed we'd gone for, and get the shop model instead.

Woman at the returns counter was less than helpful, for boring reasons I won't go into. However, my response apparently was fairly unique. I started to rant about how the Swedes were trying to take over the world through the insiduous spread of flat packs. I claimed that IKEA infected people's minds with spores that turned them into materialists, and that I'd originally only come to get a yurt, so I could live in the wilderness and commune with nature. But that when I got to IKEA and discovered flat pack furnishings I was forcibly addicted to tat, and started buying bookcases, wardrobes, double decker beds, etc instead, thus having to abandon my yurt dream. "Have you ever tried putting up a double bed in a yurt?" I asked.

Somewhere around this point the woman called for security, and I was somewhat offended that these two burly men in uniform were laughing at me, and asking where the hidden camera was, since they thought I must be filming for some comedy show or other. Eventually they let us return the double bed, and leave with the King Size. One moment is etched on my memory, turning around and seeing my husband in his wheelchair, head hidden in his hands, shoulders shaking with laughter, and my son saying, "Mum, what's a yurt?"

There are others just as bad, but I'll not go into them. On one occasion I was arrested.

[SunAngel]

You truly believe that the rice krispies are talking to you.

If you step on a cherrio, you think you are a serial killer.

When your credit card statement comes in and you think, "WTF?

When the shower is happy to see you.

When you don't shave your legs for two weeks.

Your imaginery friends are talking about you.

The voices in your head become best friends with eachother and plan a coupe to take over your mind.

You lost your mind, but don't want it back.

When you sit online all day.

When being productive means just getting out of bed.

[aeylania]

Ah great posts. Made me smile

[mgran]

When you see a moon smiling at you like the Cheshire cat, deep golden orange, massive, and crooked in the sky. You run home, drag your teenage son down the road, him complaining all the while that you ruined his high score on his video game. You point up at the smiling moon... and suddenly it's a moonless night.