Why does bp make people completely isolate themselves?

[pawn78]

Because they feel horrible sometimes and being around people can make them irritable, or anxious or they fear what people will think of them, they feel "weird" and different than normal people... Etc, etc

Ok. Well it's driving me insane. I hope to find an even level some day. Interestingly, I began losing my hair when I was 20. I have seen a sophisticated doctors findings where he gave men with full heads of hair injections of testosterone and their hair began to instantly thin. Once stopping the injections their hair instantly grew back. I am youngest of 3 boys, and the only one who is bald. One brother called me a hormone case in my 20's.

Sorry if I got on a tangent, but I wonder how much hormones plays into any of this.

[Twigs92]

When I'm depressed I just don't have the energy for people unless I'm really close to them. It's not that I hate people or don't like the individual, I just don't have it in me to make the effort. If I'm hypomanic and avoiding people it's because I've already been talking to much and freaking them out, or so angry I just say really horrible things. If I'm psychotic then it's because they're out to get me, sometimes I find ith ard to speak, and I can't trust people/have other things to worry about like they could be possessed etc.
Normally though I'm just bad with people.

I don't complete isolate myself. I isolate quite a lot, but I'm also around people on a regular basis - especially at work.

[TheatreKid]

Originally Posted by Lmciyah

Ok. Well it's driving me insane. I hope to find an even level some day. Interestingly, I began losing my hair when I was 20. I have seen a sophisticated doctors findings where he gave men with full heads of hair injections of testosterone and their hair began to instantly thin. Once stopping the injections their hair instantly grew back. I am youngest of 3 boys, and the only one who is bald. One brother called me a hormone case in my 20's.

Sorry if I got on a tangent, but I wonder how much hormones plays into any of this.

As a transgender person, I take weekly testosterone injections. I'm 30 now. This year, around the 3 year mark my hair started seriously thinning. My pdoc says that testosterone (and depakote incidentally) makes your hair pattern change so that more of it grows in and falls out at the same time instead of staggered, so you go through periods of thin hair.

As for hormones affecting bipolar, I say absolutely they can. I really notice if I forget my shot that my mood either flips up or crashes. Even dosage changes of my testosterone set off mood episodes.

[Skitz13]

I find isolation saves me a lot of trouble. Know one has to hear it or see it. I don't want to bother anyone with it, on the other hand I suffer when I isolate. Feeling lost and alone is a horrible feeling and I just feel people just don't get it and how would they if they don't experience it.
I don't have the answers but I understand

[venusss]

When I get too manicky, I find it hard to relate to people anymore and going inside is just more tempting...

And when depressed, sometimes I don't bother. Things seem trivial.

But I am generally kinda... not a people person in general. I need people to be interesting.
(on the other hand, I love to people watch at times. I don't hate people... I just prefer to keep for myself mostly).

[wing]

I isolate when I'm in a mixed state because with my confusion,irritability, foul mouth, "just-look at -me-wrong and I'll flay you" attitude sends the wrong signal about who I am.

[Can-I-Say]

I feel like I intentionally isolate myself because I have a great support system in my family and select friends, and as lucky as I feel for that, I feel like an incredible burden for the poor decisions I've made, both before and after my diagnosis.

For people who don't fully understand bipolar disorder and what it entails, someone suffering from it can easily look like a self-involved, careless, reckless, irresponsible narcissist with no regard for others... and who wants to be around that?

I DO appreciate my solo time -- I always have -- but becoming less isolated is definitely a hurdle I'd like to clear in the future.

[moremi]

I usually isolate a lot when im depressed. I dont really mean to do it I just dont feel like doing anything or getting up and getting ready to do anything. I have lost most of my close friends bc of it.

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[Skitz13]

Originally Posted by moremi

I usually isolate a lot when im depressed. I dont really mean to do it I just dont feel like doing anything or getting up and getting ready to do anything. I have lost most of my close friends bc of it.

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Ya, I hear that

[Hbomb0903]

Originally Posted by Can-I-Say

I feel like I intentionally isolate myself because I have a great support system in my family and select friends, and as lucky as I feel for that, I feel like an incredible burden for the poor decisions I've made, both before and after my diagnosis.

For people who don't fully understand bipolar disorder and what it entails, someone suffering from it can easily look like a self-involved, careless, reckless, irresponsible narcissist with no regard for others... and who wants to be around that?

I DO appreciate my solo time -- I always have -- but becoming less isolated is definitely a hurdle I'd like to clear in the future.

Agreed. My behavior when I'm too far up is so outside my normal character that it's like I'm another person. The same for when I'm mixed and/or depression. I have been struggling with a strange episode where I was down for about a month (left my job, hid in my house), then felt better for about 3 weeks, now have crashed again into apathy and indecisiveness with no motivation and I just feel hopeless. I am crushed because I've never cycled like this before.

So yeah, isolating myself is a problem in those states and it doesn't help relationships. I am very concerned with what they think of me and I hate that I appear like you described sometimes, or just like a inconstant, inconsistent, irresponsible person. It's like I'm 3 different people depending on what my mood state is. Frustrating.

[Beepee]

Cannot deal with any drama or noise now. Just try avoid anxious situations.

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