LiveWire Network Peer Answers Peer Support Teen Forums Tech Forums College Forums 711 users online 221814 members 1584 active today Advertise Here Sign In
TeenCollegeTechPhotos | Quizzes | LiveSecret | Memberlist | Dictionary | News | FAQ
Member Spotlight
dreams to despair
Movies: A Clockwork Orange, GoodFellas, City o...
Mood: Confused
You have 1 new message.
Emergency Help
Until you sign up you can't do much. Yes, it's free.

Sign Up Now
Membername:
Password:
Already have an account?
Invite Friends
Active Members
Groups
Contests
Moderators
6 online / 28 MPM
Fresh Topics
  LiveWire / Teen Forums / Teen Depression & Emotional Imbalance / Viewing Topic

Ok question for all you bipolar people
Replies: 13Last Post Dec. 28, 2008 7:56pm by murphy mcbagel
Welcome to LiveWire!
We're Stronger Together.
Join the Community
Single page for this topic Email Print Favorite
Web Resources: Drug Myths Dispelled, Drug & Alcohol Information
USA Drug Abuse Hotline: 1-800-662-4357
( murphy mcbagel )


Wealthy Hobo
Reply
tell me honestly, what happens when you go off your meds?
or better yet how were you before you took them? did you ever consider alternate treatment?

-------
I've got a boring ass signature. just the way i like it.

5:05 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: Nov. 2008 | Days Active: 263
Join to learn more about murphy mcbagel Michigan, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 1,609 | Points: 4,257
LiveWire Humor
HatesYou


Happy Turtle (:

Patron
Reply
They look like this:

Post edited at 5:06 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 by HatesYou

-------
Ohhh, my, my. Oh, hell, yes.
XxHeroHeroinexX's Blog


5:06 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: May 2007 | Days Active: 461
Join to learn more about HatesYou Massachusetts, United States | Posts: 28,890 | Points: 32,071
The Stranger


Visionary

Patron
Reply
I am sorry but I am not bipolar i feel for all the bipolar people and i wish that they wouldn't

-------
1st Christian Group of LiveWire
1st Christian Group of Lw has a support line now!

Number: 402-982-0784 Extension #: 1869277

5:06 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: July 2008 | Days Active: 449
Join to learn more about The Stranger Virginia, United States | Male | Posts: 3,353 | Points: 8,029
( murphy mcbagel )


Wealthy Hobo
Reply
like has anyone not felt any better on medication? or have lost their ability to give a crap about life?

-------
I've got a boring ass signature. just the way i like it.

5:07 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: Nov. 2008 | Days Active: 263
Join to learn more about murphy mcbagel Michigan, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 1,609 | Points: 4,257
jsgirl


Guru

Patron
Reply
                               

-------
Who'd ever think you'd go and end up...
Like all the other guys that I've gone and fuccked?

5:08 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: Feb. 2005 | Days Active: 483
Join to learn more about jsgirl Alberta, Canada | Straight Female | Posts: 11,566 | Points: 23,396
mz pretty01


Advisor
Reply
before my meds i would freak out and get mad over tha smallest things..i would act like a totall psycho sometimes..then they but me on my medicine and it made me calmer and nicer..one time i decided i didnt need them because i was feeling better so i didnt take them for a week and then i started to feel really suicidal and crazy..so yah..its best to stay on them once you start them.

-------
"the police should be sucking my dick, but instead theyre squeezin my balls"

5:09 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: Dec. 2008 | Days Active: 21
Join to learn more about mz pretty01 North Carolina, United States | Bisexual Female | Posts: 470 | Points: 619
( murphy mcbagel )


Wealthy Hobo
Reply
so anyone think outside the box? like for instance..."why am i like this? why is mental illness more common then it was 100 hears ago?"
no one here takes things into their own hands?
im feeling pretty lonely now.

-------
I've got a boring ass signature. just the way i like it.

5:12 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: Nov. 2008 | Days Active: 263
Join to learn more about murphy mcbagel Michigan, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 1,609 | Points: 4,257
rileyana


Dairy Product Addict
Reply
Im bipolar but like without my pills im not bad. Like im not anger management. I have Depression, anxiety, ADHD so i dont really notice it when i dont take my pills. Actually i really dont think i need them. When  i was taking Abilify and Geodon, they made me get seizures. So dont take them, if you do sports. lol and
Lemictal and Lithium and Lexapro dont work for shit. I have never found medication that works. Have you??

-------
I fly like paper, get high like planes

5:20 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: Sep. 2008 | Days Active: 76
Join to learn more about rileyana Iowa, United States | Straight Female | Posts: 1,169 | Points: 2,018
( murphy mcbagel )


Wealthy Hobo
Reply
Quote: from rileyana at 5:20 pm on Dec. 28, 2008

Im bipolar but like without my pills im not bad. Like im not anger management. I have Depression, anxiety, ADHD so i dont really notice it when i dont take my pills. Actually i really dont think i need them. When  i was taking Abilify and Geodon, they made me get seizures. So dont take them, if you do sports. lol and  
Lemictal and Lithium and Lexapro dont work for shit. I have never found medication that works. Have you??


nope.
but ritalin worked back in 7th grade. i never felt like i needed to talk on it.

-------
I've got a boring ass signature. just the way i like it.

5:24 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: Nov. 2008 | Days Active: 263
Join to learn more about murphy mcbagel Michigan, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 1,609 | Points: 4,257
HOLLOWdepths


Dairy Product Addict
Reply
Quote: from murphy mcbagel at 5:12 pm on Dec. 28, 2008

so anyone think outside the box? like for instance..."why am i like this? why is mental illness more common then it was 100 hears ago?"
no one here takes things into their own hands?  
im feeling pretty lonely now.


I do the same thing... but when I go off the meds, I end up severely suicidal. (Mostly, in my opinion, because of the pills in the first place.) I think clearer, and I feel everything. I'm not throttled into mania or depression. I personally think this particular "mental illness" is overused to explain and categorize teenagers.

It, like many other mental disorders, cannot truly be confirmed as a diagnosis until the brain stops developing, around age 25 or so.

I have looked into alternative treatments, including vitamin supplements, eating well, and exercising, but after starting the medications, nothing has gone back to normal. I didn't have any traces of bipolar disorder until I had been swallowing the pills for awhile and decided to stop them. Ridiculous. Now I am stuck in a vicious cycle.


5:25 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: Aug. 2008 | Days Active: 142
Join to learn more about HOLLOWdepths United States | Posts: 197 | Points: 1,631
Solstice


Connoisseur
Reply
I was diagnosed but refused medication. I'm not interested in knowing my life and how I percieve it is being manufactured by some drug induced state. No offence. I have made good to control my impulses. This is just me personally, I can not speak on behalf of other people who have been diagnosed with the condition.

By the way.. My Father is also Bi-Polar. While I admit my childhood could be considered "fucked up", the good side of him that partially existed before is now gone. Now he couldnt go off the meds if he wanted to, even to try a new medication. Once he didnt have the money to get his prescription filled and the person he was without the meds, was something much worse and completely different than what he was like without them. Enough so, that is nearly cost a few lives. So.. If you go on the medication, know the side effects and accept that your life will never be the same without them. I would suggest exploring other treatments or options.

-------
"Too Wierd to Live, Too Rare to Die" - Hunter S. Thompson


5:25 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: Nov. 2005 | Days Active: 450
Join to learn more about Solstice Kentucky, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 2,249 | Points: 6,761
emowhore


Executive
Reply
i was pretty much depressed all the time. and i would go from completely happy to  completely sad. and if i dont take my meds then i have a depression attack

-------
Love me or hate me... Ill always shine :D

5:26 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: April 2008 | Days Active: 173
Join to learn more about emowhore Georgia, United States | Bisexual Female | Posts: 1,009 | Points: 3,138
Solstice


Connoisseur
Reply
Find a Muse and a passion to dedicate yourself to. Something that is forever progressive, and acts a vent towards any emotion you are coping with. Some if not most of the worlds greatest artist and philosophers had this same condition, and during a period oftime when diagnoses and treatment was unheard of. Find something you love doing, and reguardless of your mindset and mood, you can return to that thing and find relief from your thoughts. Dwelling on them will give you understanding if you consider multiple perspectives and are able to analyze yourself, but dwelling too deep might overwhelm you.. which leads to panic attacks and such that most people relate to. Do what you can.. Being stubborn was the greatest asset I have in life. If you feel you have nothing left to live for, live in sheer spite.. It's an unusual thign to say, but it's simply how I am. I've been there, like many.. I have too much pride to let this world take me down.. Later on you'll look back and wonder why you were even that depressed over something so.. unsubstancial and continue to to become stronger when faced with those situations.

-------
"Too Wierd to Live, Too Rare to Die" - Hunter S. Thompson

5:36 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: Nov. 2005 | Days Active: 450
Join to learn more about Solstice Kentucky, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 2,249 | Points: 6,761
( murphy mcbagel )


Wealthy Hobo
Reply
thats a very awesome perpective, Solstice. i totally respect you. i just honestly feel as if im crazy in the worst way (no good ways about it) im going through about every alternative treatment, mostly for anxiety because i always feel zoned out and worried. like im trying something called the failsafe diet, which is supposed to help you avoid toxic food chemicals that i am sensitive to. no one believes it'll work though...

-------
I've got a boring ass signature. just the way i like it.

7:56 pm on Dec. 28, 2008 | Joined: Nov. 2008 | Days Active: 263
Join to learn more about murphy mcbagel Michigan, United States | Straight Male | Posts: 1,609 | Points: 4,257
Single page for this topic Email Print Favorite

Quick Reply

You are signed in as our guest.

Looking for something else?
 

  LiveWire / Teen Forums / Teen Depression & Emotional Imbalance / Viewing Topic