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Magnate
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Do you have ways to measure your progress (in dealing with BP and similar/other problems)?
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Poohbah
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Not really, but I do occasionally take note of how well or not I might presently be handling recurring and/or day-to-day situations or challenges. I look at life as being a journey with the only destination being at its end while hoping to endure between here/now and there/then.
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Grand Poohbah
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I'm still working on it.
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I know alot of people keep a mood chart for this purpose.
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I don't see myself as well as I think I do. My family is better at determining how well I'm doing. If you ask me, as long as I'm not depressed I'm fine and doing well. (Mentally but not physically) If I look at my life and accomplishments it doesn't match but I'm focusing on survival now and soon hope I will be well enough to see progress which extends out from my insides. I think PTSD is my real thorn and that is what I'm focusing on getting help for most. For BP I just work on meds and sleep and eating mostly.
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Magnate
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__________________ 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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I don't think much about bipolar. I just live and d the best I can.
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I took my recovery seriously after ECT.
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Location: New York
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If I'm still married and have my family, I'm doing well.
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The last time I was hospitalized I thought I was fine. I asked for a second opinion because the doctor evaluating me had evaluated my son on a 51/50 and I didn't agree with her about him so I said it was a conflict of interest and she committed me. They had another doctor and I could have been given a second opinion! I'm sobbing as I write this. My rights were violated. I told them I demanded they call the police on my behalf because a crime was being committed. I warned every nurse they were culpable in a crime because they were! I was thrown into a place that made me hallucinate so much worse. I'm agoraphobic, I rarely ever leave my home and only for short trips. I was sick and made so much sicker by my illegal detainment. I told my doctor when I got out, my regular PDOC that I planned to fight the 51/50 and felt it unlawful. He said, well, you can try but 3 doctors evaluated you and agreed so you wouldn't stand a stance. The other doctors saw me AFTER I'd been illegally committed and driven several hundred miles from home via ambulance, making it very hard for family to come see me and their facility made my delusions so much worse .....it caused literal damage to me. Having your rights taken away and being violated the way I was just was not called for. I was strapped to a gurney which is humiliating. Rolled in to talk to some person I didn't know like I was Hannibal Lector. It was appalling.
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<Removed because I'm sure my comments would be taken the wrong way.>
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