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#1
Jun 28, 2012, 01:03 PM
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Just an interest I have and thought I'd pick your brains...I love tattoo art and have many myself. However, there are many that I had done while hypomanic. While I absolutely do not regret them (they all have great significance regarding my family, especially my two disabled children), I wonder if I would have had them done had I been stable at the time.
Anyone done anything like get tattooed while in a state of hypomania? I'd also like to hear about any other somewhat out of the ordinary behavior people have shown in such a state.
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Jun 28, 2012, 01:53 PM
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You're making me wonder about things I never thought I'd wonder about here. I have a few tattoos and they are all bigger pieces that took many hours and cost a LOT of money. I don't regret them, but I wonder if hypomania played a part.
I always liked getting tattoos and want many more. Part of it was kind of like cutting to me. I did that to myself for a while but realized I got the same satisfaction when getting tattooed, plus I had the added benefit of getting some art on my skin. On top of that, it covered up a body I pretty much so hate. I guess I have a lot of reason that I enjoy getting tattooed but I am really not sure how mania played a factor in mine. I know I never had the money to do it so I always charged them which was probably not wise. I'd be getting more but I have intense social anxiety that tells me the artist I like will hate what I want and reject doing them leaving me feeling small or stupid. He's never turned down anything before and I don't think he would, but that (and lack of cash) is what's stopping me. |
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Jun 28, 2012, 02:02 PM
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Interesting thoughts, Robert - thanks for sharing. Yeah, I absolutely love tattoos and found a great artist who is really humble and has done excellent work for me. I just feel like some of the bigger pieces I had done, even though I planned them out for many months, that I was on a slight high at the time. I get a mild euphoria from getting tattooed. I've never done any cutting and it doesn't really appeal, but the tattoo needle is awesome to me!
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Jun 28, 2012, 02:43 PM
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Hypomania has definitely played a part in my tattoos. Generally I like tattoos but I'm not mad on them. I've had to literally sit on my hands so many times when manic to stop myself getting more done!! I've had some piercings and very nearly (but thankfully managed to restrain myself) had more e.g. microdermals on my face!!! I think the thing that has stopped me has been my partner would literally kill me!! It has been very hard but I've managed it!! It's interesting that other people experience the same!
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Jun 28, 2012, 03:45 PM
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Hey, Nixi. I like your comment about having to sit on your hands to stop! Haha! I know how that feels. I'm addicted to tat's, I just limit myself to how often I get them, based on money and what artwork has meaning to me. Plus, I work a white collar job so I only sleeved my arms half way.
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Jun 28, 2012, 04:18 PM
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Omg this is so me too...looking back all of my tattoos were done while hypo. I don't regret them either. I also get my face pierced, nose, lebret seem to be my fav. I was going to go get my nose done today but I had my kid with me lol. Also I dye my hair funky, right now I am platnum blonde with blueberry underneath, been orange, red, purple, black, green once ewwww.
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Jun 28, 2012, 04:28 PM
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It almost seems sort of commonplace that BP people are a little different in this regard. I'm by no means saying that everyone who is bipolar is tattooed and/or pierced, or that everyone who is tattooed/pierced is bipolar, but I do know some people who have similar tastes who are also BP. People are always surprised to find out that I'm into skin art because I work in an office and dress the part during the work day. Then they see me outside of work and all the ink I have and they probably wonder what the **** is wrong with me! Hahahaha!
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Jun 28, 2012, 04:36 PM
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lol so true, I love it!!!
The only difference between people with tats and people without is that ppl with tats don't judge ppl without. |
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Jun 28, 2012, 05:39 PM
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If it's something memorable and something you wouldn't regret...who cares? I wouldn't feel guilty just because you weren't in the right mind, tattoos represent who you were at each stage in your life. I got my second tattoo completely out of the blue. I told myself "today feels like a good day to get a tattoo." So I walked in, told the artist I wanted a butterfly and a rose, then he drew it up and tattooed it. I had wanted a butterfly and a rose before, but I wasn't sure about if the day needed to be special and i didn't even pick out what exactly I wanted. It was just a nice hot spring day and I trusted the artist to draw up something I'd like. I may or may not have been manic at the time but who cares, I like my tattoo. |
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Jun 28, 2012, 05:41 PM
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I don't have any, but I want one. I'm not hypomanic though, so maybe that's why it's still at the want stage.
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Jun 28, 2012, 05:54 PM
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I'd wait till the tattoo has some personal meaning to you at this particular stage in your life. My first tattoo was a butterfly representing growth. My second tattoo was also a butterfly but it had another meaning. I'm not in love with butterflies but they're pretty and it meant something to me. |
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Jun 28, 2012, 07:07 PM
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Seriously, though it has great meaning to me right now because I want to do it as my own interpretation of The Butterfly Project. I am not sure I will get a butterfly, but it will be on my left wrist. I was thinking a mandala of some sort, maybe something Celtic or something with the Om symbol. I have a friend who can help me design it and who is willing to come to the shop with me to get it done. |
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Jun 28, 2012, 08:03 PM
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Have three tattoos and a tongue piercing. Was I hypomania? I had to plan it out and wait to get the actual work fine so I dunno.
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Jun 28, 2012, 08:41 PM
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A lot of people who aren't bipolar get euphoria from getting tattoos which makes tattooing and body modification addicting to some.
I want a tattoo, but no idea what. The way I am, I don't think I'll get one in the end.
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Jun 28, 2012, 08:53 PM
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Jun 28, 2012, 08:57 PM
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I want 7 I don't have the $. I usually want them when I am down. I plan as soon as possible to get my ED tattoo. I did get a corset piercing when hypomanic. I can't get a tattoo when hypomanic because the sound irritates me to no end.
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Jun 28, 2012, 09:32 PM
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Jun 29, 2012, 12:10 AM
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I have one tattoo on the outside of my right ankle. Years before getting the tattoo my coworkers and I were laughing about all the tattoos we saw and decided to design our own tattoos. Then once when I was manic I HAD to have the tattoo so I did. I put it on my ankle because all other parts of my body were putting on weight.
I remember a comic I saw about tattoos. A grandmother had a tattoo around her wrist. Her granddaughter asked if that's where they put them when she was young... In the grandmother's thought bubble there was a young girl with a tattoo around her upper arm.... I guess things do slip when you get older. |
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Jun 29, 2012, 03:13 AM
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Thanks for a wonderful thread! I know picture the forum crowd much more colorful than I did before!
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Jun 29, 2012, 03:31 AM
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I think I was un dx'd BP when I got my first tattoo and suddenly am very keen again. For me I think it's a form of control
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Jun 29, 2012, 03:53 AM
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I NEED tats when Im hypomanic. The pain calms me. Besides, I love tattoos and have lots of them.
Normal people get them too. Nothin wrong with just being in the mood for a tattoo. Everyone has to be in the mood for one when they go in and get it. Maybe next time, set an appointment... if you show up to it, youre good. 
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Jun 29, 2012, 06:36 AM
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Thanks for all of the great posts! I figured this topic would get some interesting responses. I got many of my tattoos before I was diagnosed, and I'm not sure whether I was hypo or not at the time, but it's just something I like to think about. I loves me the ink, and plan on getting more, provided my wife let's me spend the $$ every now and then!
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DX's: Bipolar II, ADD Cymbalta 120 mg Lamictal 100 mg Xanax XR .5 mg Vyvanse 70 mg Prior meds: Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Wellbutrin, Prozac, Pamelor, Pristiq, Lexapro, Viibryd, Abilify, Zyprexa, Geodon, Seroquel, Depakote, Klonopin, Buspar, Gabapentin, Focalin, Concerta, Deplin |
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Jun 29, 2012, 10:24 AM
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Anyone have pics of the work they have had done? I am always curious on that, but maybe this isn't the place? Ah... it's the internet, why not?
My right arm: http://i49.tinypic.com/2w4b247.jpg Left Arm: http://i49.tinypic.com/jra70n.jpg Left Leg: http://i45.tinypic.com/2j3qvd3.jpg The left leg is Spawn. I've always been a comic book nerd. Al Simmons (aka Spawn) was, on a base level, a good person. But he got sent to hell and was forced to trudge through it against his will. I always felt like that was me in a different way. I always thought this mind I was given was impossible to deal with but I had to trudge through and do it anyhow. On some level, even given the mind I have, I am a good person most of the time. That maybe sounds dumb, but it makes sense to me. |
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Jun 29, 2012, 10:42 AM
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I would love to post pics of my sleeves and back piece. I'll have to get some quality shots of them and post in the future. Thanks for sharing!!
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DX's: Bipolar II, ADD Cymbalta 120 mg Lamictal 100 mg Xanax XR .5 mg Vyvanse 70 mg Prior meds: Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Wellbutrin, Prozac, Pamelor, Pristiq, Lexapro, Viibryd, Abilify, Zyprexa, Geodon, Seroquel, Depakote, Klonopin, Buspar, Gabapentin, Focalin, Concerta, Deplin |
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Jun 29, 2012, 11:14 AM
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I want to get a phoenix to show that I have emerged from the fire of ptsd and bipolar.
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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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