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Old Oct 18, 2016, 05:44 PM
RomanJames2014 RomanJames2014 is offline
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I don't know if this happens but I feel like my bipolar has gotten much worse. I am under too much stress right now but my mood swings have become the most rapid they have ever been and my manias are way worse.

I feel as if I just crashed from a hypomanic episode and now I have to face the music and I am afraid too.

I havn't slept in the last week and somehow i just realized what I did and how it affected me. I had a bunch of school assignments due yesterday and today and i ended up not doing the ones that were due yesterday.

Last night i some how managed to become hyper sexual and hook up with people as I scheduled a date tonight. Instead of working on my paper and my powerpoint last night, I danced and sang around the living room with my dog and and paced back and forth with delusions of grander.

After that i decided to stay up till 3AM and watch CNBC'S The Profit and lecture my mother about retail and business as I planned on waking up early to go to school early so that I would be ready for my date and so that I could start and complete my paper and my powerpoint that is due at noon.

I woke up at 9 and decided to take a spa like shower and shave and, basically get ready as if I am giving a talk at Yale. After singing and dancing in the shower, i decided to find the "perfect" outfit for my presentation/date. I threw on my black skinny jeans, Toms, A Cat in outer space teeshirt, and an extra large suit jacket that i wore at my heaviest weight.

I then decided that I was "ready" and egan listening to music and dancing to the train. I got on the train an continued to blast my music in my ears and dance to it in my seat making a fool out of my self.

Then as I got to school, I hooked up with a guy in the bathroom and then at 11:30, i decided to work on the powerpoint and paper that was due at noon.

Finally, at 12:50 I entered my class confident and excited that I my presentation was going to kick every one's butt.

I gave my presentation and every one loved it (in my mind I heard every one clapping and mumbling about how great it was).

I then went and hooked up with another guy in an office upstairs and finally after all of this I am in the academic center of my school crashing. I feel as if I am currently "hypo manic" but I really just want to eat and go to sleep but I committed to this stupid date.

I feel like my lithium dosage might not be working. Does bipolar progress or get worse, including medication tolerance?
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Old Oct 18, 2016, 06:29 PM
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Yes imo. I was just bp II for most of my life. Then in 2011 I went into a hypo and then a full blown mania and then a psychosis. Since then, before I got my meds correct I would go into manias and mixed episodes. The drs confirmed this. Mind you, before 2011 I wasn't on bp meds. Just meds for sleep.

But yes, I do believe it can get worse.
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Old Oct 18, 2016, 07:10 PM
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Wow that sounds like quite a day! I'm glad that you made it through
My psych doctor said only untreated BP gets progressively worse and with the right meds it doesn't seem to.
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Old Oct 18, 2016, 11:13 PM
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Mine got progressively worse before I was diagnosed, and for quite some time afterwards. The wreckage slowed down once I was on the correct medications, and now I've been stable (for the most part) since summer 2015. I think I'm also mellowing out somewhat as I grow older, so that may be a steadying influence as well.
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Old Oct 19, 2016, 03:17 AM
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I also have heard that meds can help stop it from progressing. Hope so.
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Old Oct 19, 2016, 05:12 AM
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My first psych told me that bp1 gets worse whether or not you're on meds, but that the meds stabilize you - in other words, if the meds aren't working or you stop them, you get worse.
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