[Capriciousness]

Which I guess is all of you. Kinda the point.

Read this post
When you really think about it we are some badass mother****ers.

(Sorry if strong language offends you. Please read the post anyway! There isn't any in it. I don't think)

Click the link in my sig

Peace and love

[LettinG0]

Oh, Capriciousness....thank you so much for that link...it is written perfectly.....and yes, we are some badass mothers.......

[cmorales]

I dig it! Good work!

[Nammu]

Love the peach though the paper towel roll. How aptly put.

[Hashi/bipolar mom]

SPEAK IT!!!! My BFF texted yesterday saying "how strong" I am! This bipolar diagnosis is my newest thing, but I have a long story, all the way back to childhood and I know I'm not alone in that with Bipolar diagnosed individuals but also people dealing with any mental illness. WE ARE STILL HERE AT THIS MOMENT!!! That is miraculous in itself! HUGS!

[Crazy Hitch]

So trueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I'm game to try anything or read anything that is suggested to me to help my own mental health improve.

As Brad Pitt says in Fight Club

[Manic Trance]

This is so amazing! So true! We are the only ones who understand. The sense that we are alone in the world is so palpable, yet not true, cuz there are all of us, out there. Thanks so much for this link! I cried! :,/

[irritable4life]

Comforting..

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by LettinG0

Oh, Capriciousness....thank you so much for that link...it is written perfectly.....and yes, we are some badass mothers.......

THANK YOU!

and YES we are. I wish the world knew that. But I at least want US to know that.

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by Hashi/bipolar mom

SPEAK IT!!!! My BFF texted yesterday saying "how strong" I am! This bipolar diagnosis is my newest thing, but I have a long story, all the way back to childhood and I know I'm not alone in that with Bipolar diagnosed individuals but also people dealing with any mental illness. WE ARE STILL HERE AT THIS MOMENT!!! That is miraculous in itself! HUGS!

Yes yes yes. And nobody gets that it is a miracle but us.

It is awesome that your boyfriend said that to you. Really. That is very respectful and validating. I wish I had that.

And I'm gonna keep speaking it! If I can. I am so tired of all the stigma ****. I am so tired of a system that thinks they understand Bipolar more than we do. And I hate the idea of people out there struggling and suffering and feeling alone and isolated and being so confused about this Bipolar thing.

I feel like it is unnecessary for the newly diagnosed to have to reinvent the wheel every freaking time when there are those of us out here who have put in a lot of work and blood sweat and tears dealing with this **** and figuring it out and can help. I want to help.

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by Hooligan

So trueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I'm game to try anything or read anything that is suggested to me to help my own mental health improve.

As Brad Pitt says in Fight Club

Thanks!

Brad is so wise....

And it is true. Relatedly when we survive a hideous depression and experience some wellbeing again it may be similar to someone with a different kind of illness of kidney failure or whatever thinking they really might die and then getting another shot.

I feel like these things that we go through make us live our lives differently and have different values than "normal" people. Just a thought

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by Manic Trance

This is so amazing! So true! We are the only ones who understand. The sense that we are alone in the world is so palpable, yet not true, cuz there are all of us, out there. Thanks so much for this link! I cried! :,/

Wow. Thank you for sharing that with me. I am so glad it resonated. I just want to help people.

It is amazing how that aching horrible loneliness is so strong and overwhelming. I find for me that therapy for it does not work. You can't really talk that away. It isn't really a thing that can go away.

What helps is having some one else say "I know. Me too". I was going to write one about that sometime.

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by sidestepper

Love the peach though the paper towel roll. How aptly put.

Ha! Good I'm glad.

[BipolaRNurse]

That's quite a blog you have there! I just spent over an hour reading your posts, and you write really well. Count me among your followers.

[longtime]

Originally Posted by Capriciousness

Which I guess is all of you. Kinda the point.

Read this post
When you really think about it we are some badass mother****ers.

(Sorry if strong language offends you. Please read the post anyway! There isn't any in it. I don't think)

Click the link in my sig

Peace and love

Thanks for this site. Yes, I guess I do belong and have my whole life. Everyone knew what was wrong with me and what it would take to get better. But I never got better. Oh, I quit this and quit that and took this med for awhile and would feel different enough and calm enough to tell them that it was working. But mostly I lived with this brain that tried to understand itself but could not. And I still do. But I am here. I'm still going. I'm still taking another handful of pills that help me from acting my crazy to the world. But I am here. And reading your post was the best therapy I've had in a long time. Yes I am crazy as a loon! But I, unlike some of you poor people I've read about, have some people in my life who care about me. How they still do I don't know. But I have reached the point in my disease, whatever it really is today, to keep trying for them. Maybe I'll try for myself tomorrow. Sorry for the long reply,but your site gave me better insight to myself and for that I thank you, thank you, thank you. Gregg

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse

That's quite a blog you have there! I just spent over an hour reading your posts, and you write really well. Count me among your followers.

Oh my gosh BipolaRNurse, that is so amazing to hear. I am glad you enjoyed it so much. Thank you!

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by longtime

Thanks for this site. Yes, I guess I do belong and have my whole life. Everyone knew what was wrong with me and what it would take to get better. But I never got better. Oh, I quit this and quit that and took this med for awhile and would feel different enough and calm enough to tell them that it was working. But mostly I lived with this brain that tried to understand itself but could not. And I still do. But I am here. I'm still going. I'm still taking another handful of pills that help me from acting my crazy to the world. But I am here. And reading your post was the best therapy I've had in a long time. Yes I am crazy as a loon! But I, unlike some of you poor people I've read about, have some people in my life who care about me. How they still do I don't know. But I have reached the point in my disease, whatever it really is today, to keep trying for them. Maybe I'll try for myself tomorrow. Sorry for the long reply,but your site gave me better insight to myself and for that I thank you, thank you, thank you. Gregg

Gregg,

You know...a couple of times I have thought "What am i doing? why did I start this?"... and then there is something...um sorry i can't find the right words (damn lamictal)....I just...want to make someone feel the way it made you feel. and knowing that it did....wow. I just ...yeah. humbling.


Thank you so much

[Capriciousness]

I can't figure out how to edit my original post but if you find this thread and get excited about the one I described in the OP you want to read the one titled "Read this Now if you are Bipolar" or here https://bipolarfirst.wordpress.com/2...u-are-bipolar/

because i posted a new one and I didn't want anybody to be excited about the badass mother****ers and thing and then be confused.

rambling anyway

[longtime]

since I find myself thinking of scotch and red winstons, I must be a mixed up alcoholic.
keep writing---its easier for me to read than anything else right now.Love your name, as you can see I didn't give mine a lot of thought, Its just i've been MIXED for a long time.

[CopperStar]

It is so true. I have had many episodes where looking back I should have been hospitalized, I could have died. When I am in the middle of an episode, I cannot think clearly or rationally enough to seek out help. I am usually dealing with severe paranoia and delusion, I am afraid of everyone, OR I am off on some delusional mission and think that everyone else is crazy, not me. But between episodes when I can think more clearly, when I can hold myself together better, and actually try to get help, nobody takes me seriously because I am able to hold it together. It feels like the world is chanting "dance, monkey, dance" and I have to wait until I get so bad that I am in serious danger before being taken seriously. But by then it's too late, I am too far gone, and there is usually nobody there to grab me.

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by longtime

since I find myself thinking of scotch and red winstons, I must be a mixed up alcoholic.
keep writing---its easier for me to read than anything else right now.Love your name, as you can see I didn't give mine a lot of thought, Its just i've been MIXED for a long time.

Ha! And thanks!

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by CopperStar

It is so true. I have had many episodes where looking back I should have been hospitalized, I could have died. When I am in the middle of an episode, I cannot think clearly or rationally enough to seek out help. I am usually dealing with severe paranoia and delusion, I am afraid of everyone, OR I am off on some delusional mission and think that everyone else is crazy, not me. But between episodes when I can think more clearly, when I can hold myself together better, and actually try to get help, nobody takes me seriously because I am able to hold it together. It feels like the world is chanting "dance, monkey, dance" and I have to wait until I get so bad that I am in serious danger before being taken seriously. But by then it's too late, I am too far gone, and there is usually nobody there to grab me.

Agreed. Very much agreed. Hugs.

[Crazy Hitch]

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by Hooligan

Ahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Thumbs up Hooligan

Thanks!!!