Well I was diagnosed with bipolar last week and I am finding it hard to cope with it. My impulses are really bad right now, but I guess I have to give my body a chance to adapt to the new meds. My question, is how do you all deal with the idea of having bipolar and how do you handle the impulse control?
I had my first manic episode this past week, I have not yet been diagnosed, but I am sure that I will. I am also 32 years old so i did not always have this. That being said, I think that everyone is different. I have an enormous amount of self control and I am counting on that to get me through. My advice is to seperate your behavior from your moods, emotions, impulses. Acknowledge that you are only feeling that way because of your mood disorder, if you can. For example I may wake up feeling like I am the most beautiful important person that ever lived but I know it's not real so I don't act on that and treat other people as though they are beneath me. I may have an impulse to do something very odd or spend a bunch of money but I know these are symptoms of an illness that I have so I don't do them. I have also hadlots of practice with my daughter who got this before I did. So I hope that helps and I hope it keeps working for me also. Best of luck to you!
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Medication helps,but some of us like the maniac parts of our illness, i like the high parts, not the low parts. to deal with the lows, you seek activities to get you back. this is bad, because you end up in jail, broke, or trying to hang your self out a 3rd story building window like i did.
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