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« on: November 30, 2007, 06:29:29 PM » |
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Hello to those of you who have a loved one who is bipolar. I am the webmaster, and I built this site for my wife. Please post if you find yourself here for any reason. I know that things can be difficult for those in a relationship with someone who is Bipolar. It can also be pretty good.
A quick story about BEFORE my wife was diagnosed as bipolar. We were visiting Montreal and I remember yelling at the top of my lungs, "Why are you being so fucking mean?" This is not the way I generally speak, I am generally pretty quiet.
Flash forward a very short while and my wife answers the phone and it was Haliburton saying that they would like to offer me a position to work in Afganistan. My married life was so difficult that the only acceptable solution that I could see was leaving my wife and son and going somewhere where I could at least make enough cash for them to live comfortably. I had applied at Haliburton about a month prior to the phone call.
It was then that my wife spoke to her Regular Doctor. Her doc gave her an anti-depressant that worked great for a whole week, then things went horribly wrong. Long and short is that she then went to the head shrinker and things started to get better, slowly.
It has now been a little over a year since her diagnosis. I will not say that things are all smiles and roses, but I have not applied for another position at Haliburton, or joined the French Foreign Legion. There are good days and bad, earlier today was bad. Right now is good.
So that's my story. What's yours?
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wigy
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2008, 09:03:56 PM » |
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oh dear when i was prego with my first son almost 8 years ago i wasa so horrible to my hubby -- i would cry if he brought me three candy bars cry if he didnt refold all the laundry he had folded just went nutso on him for no reason -after the birth of my first son i got on zoloft it helped .......a little .......then stopped taking it thought i did not need it .....ummm few years passed and i took off left my hubby and got prego by another man ........ came back we had another son together went nuts and left him with all the kids ......... and now i have been back fora bout two months and getting my meds right after being in the hosp and realizing i do have a problem and i do need meds for it .... i was going nuts all without meds .... i am with the help of my hubby and mom staying on my meds this time when we finally get somethin that works for me ....... my hubby is a reat guy and loves me unconditionally .....he knows i am a head case from hell but that is not stopping him for loving me and trying to work this brain thing out ...............soooooo that is my story .......someone else wanna drag out some skeletons ........... hahahahah
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clayton
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2008, 09:36:58 PM » |
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Most of my hospitalizations were at the whim of my roommate Stephen. I would get pretty wild, and he would call the police and have me 5150'd, just like Brittney (only without the parade). He has spoken of my "violence" but I dont recall any violence--I dont recall so much as throwing an ashtrray at him--anyhow, he didnt seem to care about how traumatic it is to go to emergency psych and what a toll these hosptalizations were taking on me. Maybe I didnt care, either---I was determined that the drugs didnt work--Stephen called the cops on me one too many times and I left his association. Later, I became a religious user of psych drugs, and I have only been hospitaslized 3 times in the last 20 years. I found that I was wrong--they do work! Currently, drugs are number one priority for me, and yoga practice (which also helps to control the mind) number two.
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wigy
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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2008, 12:44:58 PM » |
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omg!! that happens to me all the time -- my husband will tell me things i have done or my friend will -- and it is sometimes unbelievable -- but they say so and know me better than i know myself soo -- wow is all i can say
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Phyllis
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« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2008, 12:57:21 PM » |
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that happens to me all the time. But it is when I say things. My parents or daughter or husband will say that I have said something, and I totally don't remember. I blame my meds. They are my scape goat. LOL
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2008, 06:33:31 PM » |
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Well, maybe we should not let others "invalidate our data"--maybe we should insist on our own version of events--in my case, Stephen was not above inventing his own version of events and then deciding it was true--he was truth-challenged. I suppose it is not a practical course of action, though.
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law---Love is the law, love under will.
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hopekenzierj
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not a good life I think I want someone elses!!!!
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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2008, 09:13:05 PM » |
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I can be in mid coversation and lose what I am saying. People tell me all the time I did this or went here or said this and I completely forgot I did and when/if I can recall it comes to me like a dream( like in a haze) hard to explain but I know what u mean about forgeting. Thanks
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people lose sight of who they are everyday so try to be more like yourself everyday that way you never lose who you are.
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« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2008, 09:19:48 PM » |
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My story is just way to long to tell and when people tell me I've done or said something that I don't think I did or said, I just brainwash them into thinking they're wrong...It works, maybe not the rational way, but it works good for me...They must be mistaken.
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« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2008, 09:47:06 PM » |
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LOL I need to try that from now on let them think there the crazy ones hugh.
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people lose sight of who they are everyday so try to be more like yourself everyday that way you never lose who you are.
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« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2008, 09:51:14 PM » |
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How do we really know who's the crazy ones. If we're so crazy then why did God make this damn many of us, and why are we the more intelligent? We are beginning to outnumber them I think...They all look crazy to me, going out and spending more damn money on a purse than I would on a car and they spend more money on their car than I would a house...They are the nutty ones if you ask me.
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« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2008, 09:53:00 PM » |
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I totally agree that does sound crazy to me!!!
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people lose sight of who they are everyday so try to be more like yourself everyday that way you never lose who you are.
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« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2008, 03:42:33 PM » |
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my story as you may all now i'm Nikki, Daughter of GarryV of this site && hes dealing with this horrid illness but just because he has it doesn't mean hes not the only one living with it i'm living with it as well . i don't have it myself but it has effected my life . when i was little i didn't know what was going on because my mom && dad had joint coustody of me so i was with my mom during the week && with my dad during the weekend . a couple times my dad couldn't pick me up because he was at the hospital for his bipolar and all my mom would tell me is that got sick with a cold and couldn't pick me up so i was oblivious til i was about 10 about my dad and still til this day i'm 16 going on 17 and i still can't grasp the concept .
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Phyllis
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« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2008, 04:27:39 PM » |
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it is a hard thing to grasp. half of us who have the disorder can't even grasp it. but you seem to have a good relationship with your dad, and that is what is important. you have no idea what it means to just have someone there.
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« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2008, 04:34:42 PM » |
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yeah i have a good relationship with my dad he's one of my best friends . =]
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« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2008, 05:33:24 PM » |
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glad you didnt join the foreign legion dj!
would have made you more crazy than us....turned my ex hubsabnd into a phsycotic vigilante.....
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bound and tied in emotion but still we fly.losing all my reason cause theres nothing left to blame.
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