Don’t make the mistakes I made. Get help with Bipolar Disorder today. Seek medical assistance for any other mental disorder you have been diagnosed with. If, like me, you are convinced that you do not need help, then remind yourself you are suffering from a disease as anatomical and physiological as diabetes.
What is diabetes? The inability of the body to produce any or sufficient amount of a hormone called ‘Insulin’ The patient must take certain medication and follow a lifestyle that facilitates this limitation. Now, what is Bipolar? The extreme mood swings brought upon by chemical imbalances of the brain. You can’t simply just snap out of it. You can’t make your body produce a hormone at will. You must seek professional medical help.
Wear a silver ribbon, wear it proudly. Accepting and acknowledging that you have a problem will only drive away the people who were never truly yours to begin with. Those in it for the long-haul will support you, no matter what.
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Bloody hell girl that was brilliant. I have bipolar 2 but empathise with most of that. I am such a sucker for sad songs and am nearly crying. Where would one get this silver ribbon, I really think the answer is to recognise it. Since I was finally diagnosed six months ago I have felt much better, been put on the right medication and my friends have been incredibly supportive and I think it has been a relief for them to have a reason to explain some of my most extreme behaviour. I hope you are doing well, I think this is a superb idea. What backing have you got so far?
By: lostinnotation on February 17, 2010
at 2:45 pm
Thanks for the appreciation! I knew others with Bipolar would totally get what I’m trying to say straightaway.
And you are so right about ‘recognizing it’. Despite repeated diagnosis, I never accepted it. But now I feel worlds apart already and I have only been on the right medication for 2 weeks now, even though my doc said that it might take 3-6 weeks to get any results.
I think it’s primarily psychological in my case. Because deciding to give in and take required meds/therapy meant that I have finally accepted it as a part of me.
About the blog, well I just started it aimlessly… now I feel like moving on with this and perhaps put together an awareness campaign. I’m really looking into it. Keeping visiting back :)
By: fang87 on February 17, 2010
at 3:32 pm
Cool well let me know if there’s anything I can do to help. Don’t take on too much although it’s tempting to get carried away with such a good idea I’m sure you will find plenty of people out there willing to help and thanks again for the dresses shout out I am about to go into the loft to see if I can locate some of my Mums old ones!
By: lostinnotation on February 17, 2010
at 3:41 pm
Thanks again and yeah I know what you mean! I keep waiting for my bulb to go out on this one too like so many other things I started while on a high! So I just post when I feel like, don’t wanna get too bored of this too quickly. And about the dresses thing, it was no problem at all -but with my limited following I’m not sure if that helped :( See ya!
By: fang87 on February 17, 2010
at 3:48 pm
Beautiful and amazing….an inspiration is what YOU are…
By: Hope on May 5, 2010
at 4:11 am
Thanks Hope! I appreciate you dropping by:)
By: fang87 on May 13, 2010
at 11:23 pm