Dear Bipolar,

Please understand that I can't trust you. You are charming me with psychic delusional thoughts. If I act upon the ideas you implant, it could harm my current situation. I am happy in my life now. I have been happy as recently as 4 hours ago.

I cannot trust you, no matter how you lure me into obsessive thinking. I have to be consistent, I will be consistent. I will try to get my mind off crazy thinking, I will take a prn dose if needed. I will not succumb to you.

I will not let you harm my life as it is now. Please let me live in peace.

Your friend and ex slave,
Imah

Dear Imah, thank you for letting me know what is bothering you. I assure you that I am much too busy posting answers to other people's requests for help to be trying to do anything to you.

I am very worried that you may have missed your meds or may need them adjusted because I am not aware of anyone here that wants to do you harm. Perhaps you are just imagining that. You might want to put in a call to your psychiatrist or doctor to have them check the situation with your meds.

I am glad you feel I am a friend. I would never want you to be a slave.

Please keep letting us know how you are doing. We really care about you.

I am sorry for the confusion, that letter is addressed to bipolar - the illness itself. Hence the title, dear bipolar. I was needing a way to escape the moment where the illness rules my actions, and I succeeded. I am very sorry if this confusion caused you any stress. To be honest, I don't know who you are CANDC. I was just talking to the illness itself.

Best of luck to us all.

Imah, Well said. I loved your letter to Bipolar. I will use it as well. I hope you don't mind!!!

I have written these types of things to myself in journals. I don't keep a journal anymore, but in the past when I would come out of a depression I would write to myself how good life is, and to never give up, and how good everything is- then I would read that stuff after the fact when I was depressed and it never helped. I always thought why did I write such b*ll**it?!

Anyway- I still think writing these kind of things is a good idea. I have writen to my depression before and when I was younger I wrote poems to my anorexia a lot

Very powerful-thanks for sharing

I've always been afraid to journal. To fearful to go back and read it and see how crazy I really am and terrified someone else would read it. I think I could write letters like this one though. I'm grateful for the idea.