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Magnate
Member Since Feb 2015
Location: NJ
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#1
I can't answer this. I don't feel that the best has come. I'm grateful for my friends family and apartment, yet I still feel that the best is to come. What is the best thing that has happened to you?
__________________ Lactimal 175 mg Pristiq 100 mg Gabapentin 1800 mg Klonopin 1mg. Major depression Social anxiety disorder |
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Member Since Feb 2011
Location: in an old house
Posts: 379
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#2
I would say the most amazing thing that has happened to me was the arrival of my first child. I never thought I would be a parent.
__________________ Bipolar: Lamictal, and Abilify. Klonopin, Ritalin and Xanax PRN. |
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Grand Poohbah
Member Since Jul 2014
Location: out west
Posts: 1,606
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#3
Meeting and marrying my wonderful husband (30 years in June). He has stood by me and taken care of me through thick and thin. He also took up the slack when I was ill and was a wonderful father to our three children. He is a saint.
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Legendary Wise Elder
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Member Since Apr 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 26,619
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#4
My daughter being born.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ Bipolar I, Depression, GAD Meds: Zoloft, Zyprexa, Ritalin "Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most." -Buddha ![]() |
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Neurodivergent
Member Since Mar 2012
Location: Western US
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#5
Marrying my husband of 35 years. Without him nothing else, especially our kids, would have been possible.
__________________ DX: Bipolar 1 Anxiety Tardive dyskinesia Mild cognitive impairment RX: Celexa 20 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg Geodon 40 mg AM, 60 mg PM Klonopin 0.5 mg PRN Lamictal 500 mg Levothyroxine 125 mcg (rx'd for depression) Trazodone 150 mg Zyprexa 7.5 mg Please come visit me @ http://bpnurse.com |
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New Member
Member Since Sep 2006
Location: North Carolina
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Well, probably the best thing for me happened many years ago when I did something that was not well thought out. My husband got me to the hospital where I had excellent care--if not for that, I would never have seen my dear sons get married and never would have met all my grandchildren! I will always be grateful for getting another chance
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Legendary
Member Since Apr 2015
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 11,872
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#7
The birth of my three children for sure.
Recently my divorce was good, it was totally liberating. __________________ I traded it in for a whole 'nother world A pirate flag and an island girl |
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I'd say the two times i fell in love. I like falling in love. Staying in love is not as exciting.
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Definitely my husband and three sons. Nothing compares.
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we are one
Member Since Jul 2013
Location: Ky , USA
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my wife ... the only reason I am still alive ...
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SUPERMAN
Member Since Feb 2016
Location: Metropolis
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The birth of my daughter.
__________________ ]Roses are red. Violets are blue.[ Look for the positive in the negative. PIRILON. If lemons fall from the sky, make lemonade. Unknown. Nothing stronger than habit. Victor Hugo. You are the slave of what you say, and the master of what you keep. Unknown. |
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Magnate
Member Since Nov 2007
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 2,848
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#12
Getting my college degree. I cried tears of joy when I got the email that it was being granted, and then I proceeded to call everyone I knew to tell them the good news!
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Member
Member Since Jul 2015
Location: United States
Posts: 226
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#13
My kids, being pregnant and having those tiny babies was the happiest I ever felt.
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Veteran Member
Member Since May 2015
Location: New England
Posts: 587
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#14
Graduating from Harvard was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. It has opened many doors for me, even though my bipolar disorder insists on closing them.
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Veteran Member
Member Since Feb 2015
Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 699
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When my mom got sick (a year and a half in the hospital, and now PT) my dad and I up to this point didn't generally get along, we started to get into it a bit, and I said we need to stop doing this and worry about mom right now. set our differences aside. He was floored by the wisdom that had just been disposed upon him. and since then we have never been closer. he's done some reading about my illness and how to help manage a loved one with it, now we're best friends.
So as far as how terrible an experience this all was for my mom, the silver lining was that it brought my dad and I closer together than we ever could've been. In the future it will be my graduation from college which will at that point be a minimum of a 10 year run to get an undergrad chemistry degree. I'll cry at that one for sure. __________________ Bipolar 1 with mixed and psychotic symptoms & ADHD Meds Latuda 120mg Lamictal 200mg Haldol 5mg (+5mg during mixed episodes) Vyvanse 40mg morning 20mg noon Benztropine 0.5mg |
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Member
Member Since Dec 2015
Location: USA
Posts: 280
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#16
My niece.
My family was small and continues to get smaller. My niece is the only new growth on the family tree. She will be the only too. Due to mental illness I am not even considering children. Plus I am getting to the point, I wouldn't have a lot of time if I suddenly changed my mind. Due to her mother's age, she will be an only child. I know I am not her mother but in a way she is my child too. She is as close as I will come to a biological child. A little bit of my DNA is in her make up. I often have no idea how to behave around her. When she was a baby, I was terrified when she cried. But I would walk through fire for her. I would do anything to protect her. Her arrival in the world coincided when the rapid acceleration of me into bipolar. But she had no say in that. And thought of being her aunt and watching her grow up has kept me going in the difficult times. My big goal now is to eventually move to their hometown so I can see their little family more. I can video dance recitals and photograph birthday parties. I would like it. |
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Member
Member Since May 2015
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 275
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#17
When my future wife said "yes" when asked if she would marry me. When my two kids were both born. Hard to choose.
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Grand Magnate
Member Since Jun 2012
Location: East Coast
Posts: 3,537
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#18
Becoming an auntie
Graduating from college Becoming a homeowner My current job Life is good. |
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Member Since Mar 2015
Location: USA
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#19
Meeting my husband. HE is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
__________________ The darkest of nights is followed by the brightest of days. 😊 - anonymous The night belongs to you. 🌙- sleep token "I'm scared. I'm old. I want to go home!" 😁 - anonymous |
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Magnate
Member Since Feb 2016
Location: A version of earth
Posts: 2,626
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#20
My mind, my memory, emotions, depression and mania, my parents, people, being torn between extremes, paradoxes, my rational and irrational mind, knowledge, suffering, escaping, integrating, creativity, my friends, destroying and healing, sharing: life. Just life. All of it.
__________________ Mania kills cells. Brain cells die. Memories become more reduced conceptually, making more efficient use of limited means. Memories shape our reality. Our memories are more or less split in two by abstractions, conceptual reductions. Mood states with memories, concepts, attached. Memories of pain and those of joy. It causes instability, changeability. Fearing that will leave an emptiness between pain and joy and a greater divide. See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me. |
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