[angelcat6]

To vaguely introduce the situation, I am in my thirties and have type 1 bipolar (If I remember correctly), but it was the car accident that landed me in the hospital for months, that granted me with the title of “Traumatic Brain Injury.” The doctors have now said, that because of it accident my bipolar has worsened. Now things are going to stay bleaker? However, I always looked forward to my highs, I might get too deep into something or get obsessed but at least there was no mental pain. Now, the brain injury has changed my highs so that I can not focus long enough to get happy about something. So, it is a down spiral all the time. When there is no hope for the storm to lift up, why hopefully wait?

I hope you're going to recover from the trauma, angelcat6. Time does heal some of the sensitivity involved in an automobile wreck. Been there, done that. I am less
sensitive to other drivers when in an automobile now, but it is a gradual desensitizing that will occur.

Hopefully, your injuries aren't permanent and that you will get over it. Please keep in touch with a psychiatrist and follow all the good advice he can give you, along with the right dosage of meds to help.

Keep in touch and let us know how you are. There is hope that things can change.
I lived through it and you will recover, too, I think.

Take care of yourself, please.

[faerie_moon_x]

Well, I don't know about brain injury at all. But I know I don't have euphoric mania but dysphoric mania, which means mania is not fun or "high" for me, just speeded up and aggitated all the time.

I think there is hope tho with the right treatment. The goal is not have depressionor mania. I know a lot of people like mania because of euphoria. But the goal is to be as close to stable as possible.

[angelcat6]

Originally Posted by dark_heart_x

Well, I don't know about brain injury at all. But I know I don't have euphoric mania but dysphoric mania, which means mania is not fun or "high" for me, just speeded up and aggitated all the time.

I think there is hope tho with the right treatment. The goal is not have depressionor mania. I know a lot of people like mania because of euphoria. But the goal is to be as close to stable as possible.

Angelcat6 here:
Sometimes I'm like an energizer bunny myself, can't sleep, can't sit still, but it is till way better than feeling like my world is about to end. The feeling of not being able to do anything and not wanting anyone around me....worst of all, the hope is gone. I hate the down times, but my friends and family try to understand, but don't quite get it.