Bipolar Check-in #74

@*Beth* I hope you don't leave the forum, I'm sure there are ways to ignore or deal with the others.

I just applied to grad school.

Sleep is like medicine to us.
call your doctor.
bizi

Oh my goodness that is fantastic!
keep us posted. What are you going to study?
bizi

Congratulation!

My masters is social work. I’m terrified!

Hi Mountainbard, I agree with you that people who have negative behavior toward others (at any age) should be ashamed of themselves. (My personal experience in life is that people are as they always have been when they become older as long as they are not in a process of getting dementia or have other physical diseases that sometimes lower their capacity to think clearly).

I believe that sometimes we can misread people and that what we think is bad behavior, may not be meant that way by the sender (the person who said it). They can just have been clumsy with words, psychotic or other.

But of course trolls can find their way to these forums. I have to admit that I haven't seen any trolls here in the time I have used the forum, but if they are "trolling" in private e-posts that isn't something we as a group can see.

My suggestion is:
If a person receives an answer that she or he thinks is meant bad, she or he can report that to a moderator. The moderator can then see if the forum rules are broken. If there is anything wrong in the reported post, the moderator will be able to send a friendly reminder or a warning (I have been a moderator in another forum).

If everybody can take responsibility to do that when they think somebody meant to hurt them with bad language or whatever, all the others don't have to be involved in the discussion.

It is disturbing to read about that somebody is "trolling" (trolling is my word). I think that perhaps it disturbs almost all the members of the group when suddenly a post pups up accusing somebody of "trolling" or using "bad language" (as MI sufferers we often struggle with consentration - we do not always find the right words we want to use). I say this because somebody can think the general complaint about "bad language" is meant toward them when they read about it. That means that more then one person will not feel comfortable being part of the forum. Such disturbances is not necessary to the flock as a whole.

Let us try to be generous and kind to each other, and not to look for "an inner evil" or bad in languageskills in somebody else as soon as we see a clumsy sentence come from some who herself/himself is a sufferer (who might be in a situation where it is difficult to find the right words).

By the way:

Congratulation to you with all these good years in between!

Good wishes to you and everybody else!

I hope this stops now! (Others have commented before you took it up).

Glad that you are doing well!

Hope your Valium helped a bit and that you will have your answer soon!

CONGRATULATION!

I feel sick

I was just IP because of paranoia and impulsive suicidal ideation . I guess I made it a year.

Oh no! Do you have the covid?

I hope it goes well! Congrats!

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Hope you feel better soon Fuzzybear

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Hope you get some relief soon from the pain Mountaindewed

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I just got back from the pharmacy. I ran out of one of my meds 5 days ago and was starting to get a little depressed and having negative thoughts. Anyway, I picked up the med I ran out of and took it along with my other meds so hopefully that builds back up in my system soon.

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Sorry my last post froze and I couldn't edit it

What I meant to add was that I have an appointment with my therapist tomorrow and am looking forward to telling her about the volunteering. I also just in general feel good about helping out taking care of the cats there at the adoption place, it just made me feel really fufilled and like I have a purpose

I hope you get some relief soon. I had something similar happen last month. Broke a tooth, then it got abscessed and infected. Thankfully they were able to pull it the same day of my walk in appointment

Anyway I've gone through a lot of dental crap the past several years so I definitely empathize with you, I really hope you're able to get in and see someone soon

I went to aqua fitness today, it’s getting so much easier now that it is light out and for us finally getting warmer. The feels like temperature was still in the 30’s F but that’s an improvement. I wore my lighter coat today! I feel my mood lifting with the snow finally starting to melt, and the brighter days.

In a few hours we will officially be HOME OWNERS and pick up the keys at lunch time!

Moving in TOMORROW. Too much excitement ... and nerves ... and packing ... and cleaning!

So my tests were ok. So my next step is probably seeing a urologist. I know the pain was only going on for a few days but the retention and hesitancy has been going on for a lot longer. I started the med for my pain last night. It works great for that specefic pain. Also I'm going to the bathroom a lot less then I was before. But the side effects are awful. have the worst nausea. Its so bad I'd rather have the kidney pain. I also have these weird flu like symptoms and I've been in bed all day and I've only been able to eat soup and saltine crackers and water mostly. So I sent a message to my doctor explanining that the med was helping the pain but the nauasea was horrible and I asked if he had any suggestions. He told me this could possibly happen and to shoot him a message if it did. Today I've basically just been curled up in a ball in bed with CNN on mute, and I took 2 zofran and 2 pepcid and I dozed off for half an hour and then I was able to eat a can of soup for lunch. Right now I feel mediocre.

I just got a message from his nurse that hes sending in a different med. Yeah, the side effects from Presidone were better then this

Understand your excitement and nerves! Wish you a good night's sleep and hope everything goes well with the move tomorrow.

Good that these first tests were OK. Glad you are getting new medications, hopefully with less side effects.

I am not so well. The pain in my body has become much better, but there is something else.

Some days ago I started to feel some sort of nausea, but not enough for me to call it a real "nausea".

Today I have had diarrhea after a meal. Perhaps it is a flu after all, or may be it is my Diabetes that plays with me (or I with it )?

In all these winter months I have had problems following the nutritious goals for Diabetes because of depression. I mean my dinner plates. At the bread-front I have followed the usual diabetes advices, but not so much fruit as I should have eaten because of the higher food prices. I forgot to take my diabetes meds this morning and after a while I felt almost as drunk. (Those who have diabetes and have experienced fluctuations between glucose levels understand what I mean). My brain didn't function well, but after I checked my glucose level and took my medication, I was almost OK again.

I feel really tired today, may be it's too hard to say, but I think I am tired of life and all it's trouble. It's the weather, it's balancing differnt diseases (physical and mental) and more ...

I think I will allow myself to have a bad day. I mean to day I will not use my psych tools (my stomach continues to signal that it is not satisfied).

The good thing is that I will have my arms examined tomorrow. Then I will at least have an answer about that.