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What are your recipes to success when you have BP?
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My wonderful support team. My husband, therapist and pdoc. My meds as well.
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What kind of success? The kind that comes from hard work requires harder work. So work harder. My BP is not debilitating, though. It's a hinderance, not a handicap.
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| |Up and down |And in the end it's only round and round |Pink Floyd - Us and Them | |bipolar II, substance use disorder, ADD |lamictal, straterra | |
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Interpret however you like. I just want to be successful in life, which, in my case, includes getting my own place, being able to pay off student & car loans, getting promotions at work, having a family, getting my GI issues addressed, etc etc.. The list goes on and on. But everybody is different, and I love hearing what other people's opinion on what "success" means, and how they've achieved it (or are currently working toward achieving it). |
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I don't know that I have a recipe, but I've worked to get where I am. I went to a good school and got a degree in chemical engineering. During this time I was diagnosed with GAD. I started working in the field of biopharmaceuticals. I got married, and moved to a different locale for a better job. We had four kids, and I've been providing for the family ever since. We've moved a couple times; for jobs and once to be near family. I've tried a couple different types of work, but always came back to biochemical engineering. Presently I work as a Principal Project Manager in the engineering department of a very successful biopharmaceutical company. During the preceding years I was diagnosed with major depression, and eventually bipolar disorder. I've been hospitalized, and twice been on short-term disability. These situations have always been rectified by med changes, and I've resumed my job responsibilities.
I currently manage my my disorder through medications. Yes they have crappy cognitive and physical side effects, but I get by. We have a large house on three acres, our kids are doing well (oldest is now 12), and my wife seems happy with her life. We have three cars, and a 401k. I don't know how you define success, but I'd like to think I've achieved some modicum of it. I don't have a recipe other than hard work and coping with medications the best you can. Good luck as you pursue your dreams.
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Meds: Latuda, Lamictal XR, Vyvanse, Seroquel, Klonopin Supplements: Monster Energy replacement. ![]() |
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knowing what I want.
it is no good me sitting their saying, "what ever" surely if you work towards something, it's going to be something that you yourself want? and actually trying to prove people wrong about bipolar. when people say oh you're lazy, oh you can't make decisions, prove them wrong and actually do something about it. think about positives as well as negatives of a situation and act mature at my age, going round singing itsy bitsy spider and other kiddy songs, I wouldn't be taken seriously (that's probably the hardest though) I know 1 thing I really need to stop doing, is using animal sounds in sted of proper words like if someone says hello to me, say hello back, don't go... meow |
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