Getting Better and Staying Well

About 6% of Americans suffer from Bipolar disorder that makes millions of people living with the disorder today. Many are living healthy, productive lives yet there are still many others who are not.In order to maximize you quality of life there steps that can be made for although not a cure, at the present time there is no cure, your life can improve and with treatment you can live with Biploar Disorder more comfortably.

Getting better and staying well takes work, there are basic techniques with a doctor and medication that can make living bipolar easier on yourself and the other people in your life.Bipolar disorder does notonly affect the person with it but family and friends as well and in severe cases is a burden on society dorectly and indirectly.

Acceptance is the first and most key role in healing When you confront and face an obstacle as with any illness the burden of facing a lifetime of treatment is easier to stick with and there are fewer setback such as being compliant with medication regimes and treatment and less chance of setbacks. Know and be informed about Bipolar disorder knowledge is power and can prevent future hospitalizations when you can recognize the symptoms and stop a moodswing from becoming out of control.

Try not to be a Drama Queen. Stress, although it does not cause Bipolar disorder it can be a trigger to an episode and can be prevented with stress relieving techniques. Psychotherapy plays a role in stress reduction. If you are finding yourself in a crisis situation often Talk therapy works as well as a pill. With Bipolar disorder you are in should be in charge of the illness as much as possible consult your doctor and therapist when you first feel the signs of symptoms. Learn when and what your triggers are and what you can do to help stop the episode from becoming fullblown.

Commit yourself to being Bipolar for life Living Bipolar is the step to a quality lifetime with as few upheaval of moodswings mania and depression by relentlessly taking charge of your medication routine. Making sure you have the best medication for you and the adequate dosage takes you a step further towards a better life. Regulate sleep and eating habits that are healthy and keep a routine that works for you. Keeping a daily journal can help you to foresee future moodswings and stop the severity of them and sometimes even the frequency. Keeping a mood chart of when you are depressed and when you are manic even hypomania can be beneficial. Build a support group of family friends and people who you confinde in and use them to help yourself. Other people can see signs of depression and mania often before you do yourself try to listen to others when they voice concern of your behavior or actions.

Know that mania and depression that is becoming out of control is best handled with the doctor find a doctor that you feel confident in and can talk to about anything and everything a good rapport with your treatment team is essential to healing and staying well.

Welcome to My World

Welcome to the real world of sanity unleashed on my world of unreality. Where the light of thoughts bombard my brain into releasing the energy of hyperlife into my tired body. The days of no rest become days and nights of unrest.

Happiness uncontrolled unceasingly persists until the truth is clouded by the unreality of the dreams or wishes of I a captive of violent moodswings.

The mania the deep brooding dark and hope for an end and the future attempts to do this attracts your heart so that it is a reality and you no longer exist. Crowd maddening emotions spurt until they reach a focal point and there is a cold slowly burning anger devastating and lethal.

The dire strands that link my mind with my emotional state at any given time are stretched thin in a tenous rope around my dreams of destruction.

The collapse of self respect when all is torn away and the universes of having in a hallutionatory existence if only for a short time. Then the pseudoreal is extreme and I am a servant of illogical dreams yet to be.

There are no Whys only Whats of can be or is. I ask God to respond to my fears for the tears of dancing not to descend to the melody of the pain from the funeral dirges. This horrendous journey hovers wherever, whenever , whatever. They chase to become a treadmill of this disorder. When the roads of truth and fantasy cross there is only one question that I can ask. Am I suppossed to feel what you feel or are you able to feel what I feel. Hello I am a Bipolar Manic Depressive Welcome to my world.

Bipolar Life

What am I going through at this moment? Do you ever feel this way?

What I feel, my thoughts running on a motor overdriven up and on the run, I feel the universal feelings intensified colliding and can not survive the impact. The head of the spitting cobra in my mind stings and becomes crisscrossed on thehighway of crossing delusions until the realness of my world is topsy-turvy. Sordid nonreal possession of what goes into it. The sanity of dark become the night star in my head that appears at times. When the falling showers of stars light up the background of the sky they make up the words that flow and are a symptom. They race and unleash the poets gift weaving beautiful patterns on a page.

What better way to feel. Welcome to it. What is there to be had when all that is all that has ever bee is.

I represent the Bipolar community who say worse or better there is only the reality in my mind that is all that is the matter when what matters is what is the matter with me.

Mood contemplation. The thoughts of an Old Head not yet of age. I am guilty of feeling good. A pain exquisite and deadly crying for blessed peace in a frightful world that has been created by my mind, Am I less or more of a person that is shown to others? Painful but happy to be me.