[ExistingInChanges]

I'm doing ok, but really rocky. My medicine is doing its part, but my moods are all over the place and I can't keep myself off this rollercoaster ride I always fall victim to. The weather change is really affecting me this time. (Rapid cycling bipolar). Idk if that is a bipolar one or bipolar two diagnoses. I only know that its rapid cycling.
I feel shut inside myself and locked in my brain and I can't see outside it right now.
The weird part is that I'm happy in a way, but I'm just unstable, unbalanced, angery, sad and scared, also slightly paranoid.
Any tips for me?

[Nightside of Eden]

Didn't your doctor tell you your exact diagnosis? They certainly should. I have ultra-rapid cycling bipolar 2 and feel like you describe a lot. It's basically a form of a mixed state.

I don't really have tips, because I don't deal with the instability very well myself, except to try to get a mood stabilizing med that works.

[Mandysue]

maybe talk to your doctor...or therapist?

[ExistingInChanges]

Originally Posted by Nightside of Eden

Didn't your doctor tell you your exact diagnosis? They certainly should. I have ultra-rapid cycling bipolar 2 and feel like you describe a lot. It's basically a form of a mixed state.

I don't really have tips, because I don't deal with the instability very well myself, except to try to get a mood stabilizing med that works.

No. I got diagnosed with it in a mental health hospital and don't see my regular Dr until the 17th or somewhere in there.

[LadyShadow]

I don't have any tips, but it seems that your meds need some readjusting. When I came out of the hospital every time (9 times) I never felt right. Only after seeing my Pdoc and therapist was I able to find some stability.

Find out if you can get an earlier appointment, the 17th seems too far away.

[ExistingInChanges]

Originally Posted by PlatinumHeart

I don't have any tips, but it seems that your meds need some readjusting. When I came out of the hospital every time (9 times) I never felt right. Only after seeing my Pdoc and therapist was I able to find some stability.

Find out if you can get an earlier appointment, the 17th seems too far away.

Yeah, they may need to be readjusted. I will see.

[donna450]

I can't give too much I'm that way much of the time. My husband keeps me laughing but most times it's a hollow reprieve. I was diagnosed bp w/ rapid cycling. But mostly in the last 40 years I usually am depressed. I would rather be depressed than manic because I get very mean and ugly. Depression is inside me locked away and I usually don't hurt anyone except family....they don't know what or how to make me feel happy. Me either. It's just there. I was for 20 yrs mixed mostly but depression reared it's ugly head and clung on with a vengence until I had shock treatments 25+ in 96-97 when I started to come out of my abyss and realized there was a real life out there. So vling to hope and meds and pdoc someday you will see the light and maybe last for awhile until it returns once again to make one feel like this will never eend. Like a lifer in prison. Only it's within yourself your mind your body...and nithing or nobidy can really make it go away. Sorry to be a bummer...jyst how I'm feeling right now. Be well...be safe

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