Bipolar check-in #71

@wildflowerchild25 , I have gained weight on my meds but recently re-started metformin, so I'm hopeful that it helps in addition to eating healthier and exercising some . I'm not diabetic but metformin is sometimes used to combat weight gain from APs. I used to be on it a year or so ago and lost 25lbs while on it. It seems to help with the constant hunger I get from my meds.

Also your Thanksgiving dinner sounds delicious

A more up to date picture of me

@Soupe du jour sending positive vibes your way. Thinking of you.

Big bear hugs to you @Soupe du jour. Hope things settle down soon

Christina (and everyone else), I will never tire of pics of your fur babies

Hey Beth,

Giving the apartment an awakening, with open windows, sounds good! Sounds like your cats are having fun

I wonder the same thing about do I say the wrong things to prescribers? Is that why they don't listen to me?

I love the pictures of everyone's fur babies also!

Bear pictures are the closest I can give to those (other than pictures of boxer dogs, a likeness of the lovely girl I used to have long ago)

I am well aware of those demons, Beth, as you know. They're still there (especially lately), but Haldol has really dampened them down. I think most prescribers have selective listening. They listen to what they think they can treat with what they think has worked for someone maybe before, ignoring the real problem(s).

Selective listening! Exactly. Especially (of course) if they are rushed for time. And ignoring the real problem(s). grrrr. I guess that's the best they can do, sometimes..

I told my mom the other day when a commercial came on for a psych med and the lady asked her doctor "what do you think about this med?" And the doctors says "it could help." That that is a very unlikely scenerario for a pdoc appointment. The pdoc would probably get mad that the client is suggesting trying something or they will just say they are drug seeking. I got yelled at by my pdoc for suggesting a new med. Told no for an increase when I called a month ago. Then this last time the other day I got told "we'll talk at your next appointment."

Maddie is adorable

Beth

Hope you feel better, Boots

Exercise helps me too..

I worked out yesterday morning lifting weights for half an hour. I had about 2 thousand calories in food and drinks including 2 giant pieces of tilapia for dinner. And this morning when I weighed myself I had lost 0.6 pounds. I'm trying to gain weight in muscle not lose anything. Anyways today I only did 25 crunches with my ab roller because I got anxious suddenly and needed the workout. 25 was enough though and now my stomach kinda hurts. Today I'll be eating way below what my therapist wants but honestly my quality is better so whatever. I wonder what the new one will say about things. Overall my anxiety is still pretty stable. I've stopped all the protein bars and shakes and crap. And I've started eating with my meds. So idk whats up. My mom is going insane with Thanksgiving. Now we are staying in 2 hotels. One Thursday night near my aunts where dinner is and one Friday night near my uncles where dinner will be. She said all the driving just makes more sense or something like that. Idk. I find packing up one hotel and moving to another one just 45 minutes away, exhausting. She has it all planned out though and I'm trying not to making things complicated by putting my 2 cents in there.

Whatever I'm feeling right now can go suck it.

There is so much junk on fb. I'm going to have to block and delete several people.

I did see this recently. I do not find this to be junk.

''The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world.

Plato

I have not found a therapist who has adequate empathy. Too many times I hear about therapists not so far away from this cave who also have a failure of empathy, to the extreme. I tried to talk to Papa bear about it tonight. He was not on receive.

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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom So this sucks I stayed up to 6 am making dog food last night because we have no money but she loves it. I'm getting a lot of crap on FB about what I used for my base but **** them I followed the recipe. She likes it more then kibble We made 33+ lbs of food last night. Cooking was a huge for me and I got slammed. I only put how much it costed because other posts asked how much it cost. It is a lot for me. I said I wanted to dehydrate it so it keeps longer and they said a bunch of stuff like if I knew basic high school chem. I would know how wrong that is. I hate FB people. ...

Wth? They slammed you for making the dog food and wanting to dehydrate it? That sounds so excellent, Mm! I pay bucks to feed my diabetic cat dehydrated turkey or duck, it's very healthy. High protein, no carbs.

I flatly refuse to have any Fb friends who are not supportive. That doesn't mean they must vote like I do, but it means we must be mature enough to respect each other and prioritize our friendship over anything esle.

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Originally Posted by Soupe du jour Thank you for asking about me, BeyondtheRainbow. I'm just barely making it these days. Feeling a bit desperate with so many stressors. Ill and sad.

Well, Soupe, if you'd post here you know you have all of us to give you support and maybe some ideas.

Oooh I’d love to see him

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I'm pretty sure it's the haldol that won't allow weight to budge @wildflowerchild25. I certainly feel for you. The AP's are so, so frustrating with their darn side effects.

I'm awfully sorry about your cousin. How sad. Having a family member who is a jerk...ugh. It makes every family situation awkward.

My oldest nephew's 4th (yes 4th) wife was (yes, was- they did divorce) an alcoholic, and was driving my nephew's 2 boys around when she'd been drinking. (My nephew is only 7 years younger than I; we basically grew up together.) So I expressed my concern to him about his stupid (then) wife and he stopped speaking to me. Then they divorced and he's been too ashamed to break the ice and speak to me. It's been a few years. I will write to him to work things out...when I feel motivated to do so, to deal with his 52 year old immaturity

I hope life settles down for you soon

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