Roll Call 63...

I might be completely wrong, but weren't you only taking your medication intermittently earlier this year... did you start taking your medication regularly around that time... that could have caused the change...

i was taking 10mg in spring. rarely 5mg. im taking 10mg now. sometimes 12.5mg.

Ok guess it wasn't that then.

oh no! i feel doomed to the hospital

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They forgot my chips! I had to call them and tell them to bring me my damned chips! They never add ketchup or anything else in my bags. Never. I'm extremely angry at them right now.

Bipolar forums could help newtus...

If anything its schizoaffective bipolar type. not bipolar. Just saying. Plus i have more issues on the schizophrenia end. my issues never let up there. Dont worry about me. Worry about yourself. Im not trying to start anything but just sayin...

You need to back off. Let it go. I don't know what your problem is with Newtus and a couple of other members is, but being snarky like this on a support forum completely ruins the atmosphere. If you need to work out a personal issue with someone do it in a private message. There is no need to make things like this public. I've held off saying anything until now but seriously you're still thinking about something that happened a couple of days ago. Personalities clash sometimes, it doesn't need to keep being brought up so you or whoever has the last word.

What? The Bipolar forums are really useful for dealing with that part of the illness.

Also, I was the one who was told off for displaying supposedly "manic" tendencies on here. Practice what's preached... and so on and so forth...

Anyway sorry for ruining the atmosphere Atypical and anyone else.

Whether or not you're allowed to be manic and post is not the issue here. It's that you're continuing drama, here are screen shots to prove that. I read what happened a couple of days ago as did many other people. What it looks like is that you're dragging stuff up that seems to be more about individual members than whether or not you're manic.

I'll admit that I've acted like a jerk during manic episodes in the past. But I've learned to try not to just say whatever is on my mind when I'm highly manic like right now. I'm not insulting you nor do I intend to. Being manic is one thing, dragging up an argument that is a couple of days old is another matter.

CHRIST!!! I've been nothing but supportive to 90% of you guys on her including and most of all newtus. I use one feckin' joke about a letmegooglethatforyou link and spark a debate about laziness in mental illness and I'm suddenly the enemy.

Atypical I'm a little annoyed that I've been nothing but supportive to newtus and I make one joke and I'm an enemy. I should have discussed this in private and I apologise for bringing it up.

Yeah, my ex use to send me the letmegooglethatforyou link to me all the time. It's not a big deal.

I don't see how anyone was telling you off. Someone pointed out that I seem very manic earlier this afternoon, and I welcomed the input because if I am not mentally well I want to know about it. When someone pointed out that you seemed manic you completely dismissed whoever it was and kept posting stuff that looked like you were trying to antagonize certain members. I don't know if that is what you were trying to do but that is how it looked on the outside.

Being manic is hard, trust me I know. I'm struggling to hold it together right now, but starting up drama isn't the way to get better. It's by being honest with your treatment team about what's going on even if you feel like you don't need help. Trust me, it is going to be damn difficult for me to tell my psychiatrist what's going on with me tomorrow even though she already knows because I called her today as I took the advice of several friends who know me well and that of Blue Bird's. But unless I am willing to say "hey something isn't right" even if I have a hard time seeing it then I don't have a chance in hell of getting better. In fact, I would likely just end up getting far worse and ending up in the hospital yet again.

I don't see you as the "enemy", all I was trying to point out was that this whole thing happened a couple of days ago. Why bring it up yet again? The private message feature exists for a reason. I am not trying to demonize you, or anyone else involved with this. All I want is for people to not be fighting, and you brought up an old argument and well of course newtus wasn't going to take that well... You took her posts out of context to slam her about an old argument. That is not okay. Newtus was trying to be honest about her own mood issues and then you came in and did that? That's pretty callous.

I was told to "go back to the bipolar forums... go away" ... did you not see the quote? Why would I use that as valuable input... that's the definition of being told off. I mean literally.

I'm not trying to make anything worse, I just wanted to make the point that issues like this are better for private messages instead of a public thread. I hope you can take this to private messaging and resolve the issue.

I've been ganged up on here before, and I get that it's not fun to be called out but I also had to acknowledge that yes... at the time I was being insensitive, I didn't intend it but it still came across that way and I had to look at that and resolve to try and do better in the future.

We used it in college the whole time... it's gas!

This was after you had intentionally or not implied that Newtus and someone else was "lazy" and stuff. People are going to react if they feel like they're being personally attacked even if that wasn't your intention.

I like the letmegooglethatforyou, I use it a lot lol just saying.

I don't know I was equally offended when it was suggested that someone manic shouldn't be posting here.....certainly we've never enforced some kind of sz only status on this forum despite there being a sza forum. I think we would lose half our group if people with concomitant mood issues were asked to leave.

I don't think that was intentional but yes I can see how it looked that way at the time. There's no rule that says only schizophrenics can post here, nor should there be. It's for anyone who has problems with psychosis. My point was that bringing up an old argument just makes it seem like there's an issue that needs to be taken up in private message, that is all. I think insensitive things were said on all sides in the heat of the moment.

Yeah if there was a sz only rule I wouldn't be able to post here as I have sza no matter how much I deny it. I'm manic right now but I'm posting, I'm allowed. So is anyone else.

I was calling myself lazy and saying how some people with mental illness blame their illness and take no responsibility for the fact that they're lazy. Like me. I didn't even unintentionally imply anyone on here was lazy. I don't know anyone on here in real life how would I know? So I didn't attack anyone, but get attacked but it's ok because they didn't agree with me?

Then I use a letmegooglethatforyou link and everyone loses their minds!!!! I think being offended that easily is a personality flaw in the person being offended, not me.

I'm a smart arse, and always will be but have a sense of humour people, it goes a long way. Try not to take life so seriously, it's short and we'll all be dead soon.