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Not Coping

Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor08 Nov 2022, 6:51 pm AEDT

Not Coping

Hey everyone how are you all?

@RiverSeal @Shaz51 @NatureLover @tyme @Former-Member @Eve7 @Former-Member @amber22 @Jynx @FloatingFeather

I'm not doing great at all today. I'm feeling down. I also keep beating myself up for everything and feel like I'm just failing. I need a break from everything. It's getting so hard that I don't know how to keep going anymore especially since I can't talk to anyone around me as they are leaving me or don't understand.

Hope you don’t mind me reaching out I just really need a chat and though I could come on here and vent and talk for a bit.

Thank you

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor22 Mar 2023, 4:22 pm AEDT

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I talked to my GP she said we need to wait and see what the psychiatrist says first and go from there so I’ll just have to wait I guess.

How are you going @creative_writer

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creative_writerSenior Contributor22 Mar 2023, 5:06 pm AEDT

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@Birdofparadise8, you're still fairly young, so best to keep an on things. Sometimes bipolar starts off with depression. I only experienced mood switching from AD when I was 19.

I am exhausted, the assignment fried my brain. I just hope the deep depression doesn't sink in anytime soon and remains more manageable. Still waking up not wanting to start the day though. Maybe it's automatic for me now, I wake up remembering what I don't want to remember.

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor22 Mar 2023, 5:09 pm AEDT

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I've been doing some research, and they say people my age can first have depression and just not have a manic episode yet and don't nessacerily work with antidepressants and that's definitely been me.

I hope you can get some rest tonight, then @creative_writer.

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creative_writerSenior Contributor22 Mar 2023, 5:16 pm AEDT

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@Birdofparadise8, you can have a manic episode at your age. I first experienced hypo mania at 19. Everyone responds to ADs differently.

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor22 Mar 2023, 5:19 pm AEDT

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I don't think I am manic, though or hypomanic.

Like I've started to feel sad again since class as I got anxious when the teacher asked me a question I didn't know, and now I feel the spiral developing. I think that triggered me to now being depressed again.

What is classed as hypomania, though, if you have had it from experience? I just don't fully understand it all, @creative_writer. My aunt has thrown a bit of a curve, ball lol.

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creative_writerSenior Contributor22 Mar 2023, 5:31 pm AEDT

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@Birdofparadise8, during my hypomanic episodes I would feel elevated, not sleep much, had racing thoughts, very talkative, showed impulsive behaviours-like I used to overspend, goal orientated beh so took on huge workloads, sometimes I would get agitated or irritable, I also convinced myself I was invincible.

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor22 Mar 2023, 5:33 pm AEDT

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Right, okay, do you have bipolar one or two, @creative_writer?

Sorry to ask so many questions; I am just trying to get my head around all this.

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creative_writerSenior Contributor22 Mar 2023, 5:40 pm AEDT

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@Birdofparadise8, the type hasn’t actually been diagnosed, but I reckon BP2. On my medical file it just says Bipolar disorder.

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Birdofparadise8Senior Contributor22 Mar 2023, 6:24 pm AEDT

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Right okay, @creative_writer.

I'll just have to wait, I guess, and find out.

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creative_writerSenior Contributor22 Mar 2023, 6:42 pm AEDT

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@Birdofparadise8, maybe the bouts of happiness is also a sign you are recovering 💖

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