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#1
Jun 20, 2015, 06:10 PM
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Is this a Bipolar thing?
I buy stuff then I'm like I don't need this stuff,, then sell stuff, then miss having it and rebuy the same crap. |
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Jun 20, 2015, 06:19 PM
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don't do that but I do keep everything, just stuff it somewhere, might need it some day ...
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#3
Jun 20, 2015, 06:19 PM
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Yes, this is my hypomania
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#4
Jun 20, 2015, 06:25 PM
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it just bothers me because I want to be happy with me, not be happy because of my stuff. Ive been through a flood and fire and you cant grab that stuff when that happens.
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Jun 20, 2015, 06:47 PM
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I "declutter" my house about once a year ...
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#6
Jun 20, 2015, 09:10 PM
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I don't do that and I am not a "keeper" of things but I do tend to get in my head "I need to buy say Pam spray" and then I buy it the next 4 times I'm at the store so I buy lifetime supplies of things. Right now I'm stocked for years on brown sugar and canned tomato products. At one point I had 4 cans of Pam spray.
Mania only increases this.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Jun 20, 2015, 09:13 PM
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I re buy things over and over because stuff has a habit of just disappearing. I'm suspecting that Trasher has a lot to do with this :/
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#8
Jun 20, 2015, 09:17 PM
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I personally don't do that. I hate shopping and buying stuff.
BUT my husband who doesn't have bipolar does that a lot. Lol. So it can't be just a bipolar thing.
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#9
Jun 20, 2015, 09:17 PM
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I cheat, I send the wife, she makes lists ....
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#10
Jun 20, 2015, 09:26 PM
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A friend on another internet site found 23 hammers after she decluttered her house
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. anonymous |
| BeyondtheRainbow
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#11
Jun 20, 2015, 10:41 PM
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Yoda-That friend is my kind of person........
 You never know when you might need a hammer.My sister just found 9 dog tie-outs when getting ready for a yard sale.
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Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 2.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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#12
Jun 20, 2015, 11:50 PM
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I'm an Apple junkie. Always the latest and greatest...stop me!!!
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Jun 21, 2015, 01:32 AM
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I have over spent myself so many times in the past, My credit is just a smoldering train wreck.
The last 15 years? Not a problem at all. We live credit card free, We own our home and vehicles out right. I/we only buy what we can afford and pay cash for. The one guilty pleasure I have is buying 4-6 nail polishes a month.. That is the extent of my Bipolar retail therapy. It helps that I can not stand clutter of any kind. I feel literally sick if I see things laying around that don't have a real use for. *it has taken me a long time to be okay with not having mass shopping sprees.
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Jun 21, 2015, 02:50 AM
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Ebay is no go for me, when I'm hypo
Stuff arrives a week later and I'm like huh? hahaha A selfie I took earlier: 
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#15
Jun 21, 2015, 03:31 AM
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Quote:
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#16
Jun 21, 2015, 12:05 PM
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I just buy things and don't sell them, even if they turn out not to work for me. Like I bought a battery for my old laptop and it didn't fit and I was too lazy to bother with posting it back and getting a refund. I also just bought some pedometer bands that are way too small because I forgot to change the size when I ordered them and ended up with petite size, and I probably won't return those either. I'm going to try to get up the oomph to return them though. The packaging is still pretty much fine and I didn't wear them obviously.
I often buy things, get home, and think, why the heck did I buy THIS?! and immediately regret getting it. But I'm not much of a seller.
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Jun 21, 2015, 09:37 PM
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In the few cases of pure mania that I have had, I did buy an awful lot of stuff that there was no way I was going to need. Like 300 bars of soap.
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