[dubblemonkey]

...but?

it's possible

...every cell in my body wants to rip life a new butt!

...and how will I survive this way?

I don't care about what other people can do...there is always some-one better at living!!

and this hurts...

but?

I want to take on life itself...

enough of depression!

enough of doubt!!

CRAP!!

let the living play with life!

let me the dead already come back to life in a dead world!!

...so I got nuthin' to lose...

[extremebipolar1]

Originally Posted by monkeyman

...but?

it's possible

...every cell in my body wants to rip life a new butt!

...and how will I survive this way?

I don't care about what other people can do...there is always some-one better at living!!

and this hurts...

but?

I want to take on life itself...

enough of depression!

enough of doubt!!

CRAP!!

let the living play with life!

let me the dead already come back to life in a dead world!!

...so I got nuthin' to lose...

Hey monkey, Thank you SO much for prayers. That means a lot. I am glad you are facing this head on. I had to do the same thing in the last 5 months. I finally gave in and started taking meds as I am supposed to. I was put back on lithium and so far so good. You have to give it your all I am finding out and want it badly enough to try to break the bad habits and maybe find some techniques that work. I will pray for you as well.

[faerie_moon_x]

I don't think it matters what other people can do necessarily. But sometimes knowing that other people can do something means it's not an impossible thing.

For example at my office we have a bullitin board of pictures of patients who have gotten their blood glucose under control. They are real patients that we see. They are old, young, skinny, over weight, type 1, type 2, men and women. They are real people and not super models. We put how they did it under their picture. We do this to say, "see, this person is just a normal person and they succeeded. So can you!"

I think it's the same thing here. We are all at different places on this road. But we can see that normal (and by normal I mean all of us, not those non-bipolar people,) people can make it. It doesn't take super models or millionaires. It's not about being better at life. It's about not giving up even when you just want to lay down. And we've all been there at some point, so those who climb out can reach down to help pull the others up.....

[AeonDM]

"I don't think it matters what other people can do necessarily. But sometimes knowing that other people can do something means it's not an impossible thing."

Beautiful.