I recently responded to a request for experience strength and hope in dealing with toxic families who have mental illnesses and possible personality disorders. This is what I said: “I have a fair bit of experience with mental illness as it runs in my family of origin (depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia) plus I have [...]
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Stay Away from Mentally Ill?
Posted in 12 Step, Addiction, Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, mental illness, Relationships, Schizophrenia, Self Help/Support Groups, Thoughts, tagged agressive friends, agressive mentally ill, anxiety, bipolar disorder, Borderline personality disorder, depressed person, destructive mental illness, detaching from mentally ill, Disorders, Health, helping mentally ill, how to help mentally ill, major depressive illness, manipulative friends, manipulative mentally ill, Mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, mentally ill friend, Support group on October 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sex & Love Addiction Help
Posted in 12 Step, Addiction, Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Books, Codependency, Depression, Medication, mental illness, SAnon, Self Harm, Self Help/Support Groups, Thoughts, tagged Amazon.com, American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Love Addiction, love addiction help, love addiction suicide, love addicts, love avoidants, love fantasies, Obsessive–compulsive disorder, Patrick Carnes, romance fantasies, SA, SAnon, sex addict, sex addiction suicide, Sex Addicts Anonymous, Sexual addiction, sexual fantasies, sexual thoughts, Sexuality, SLAA, Substance dependence, Twelve-step program, unwanted fantasies on September 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As I suffer from generalised anxiety disorder and various OCD symptoms such as the need to have things orderly, clean and perfect, I was wondering whether love and sex addiction is classed a form of OCD. Some experts believe that sexual addiction is literally an addiction, directly analogous to alcohol and drug addictions. Other experts believe [...]
Suicidal Ideations, PMT & Antipsychotics
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, Medication, mental illness, Self Harm, Suicide, Thoughts, tagged benzodiazepine overdose, benzodiazepines, benzos, irregular periods & suicide, Jenny Birdsey, natural progesterone, natural progesterone cream, NPAN, overdose, PMS, PMT, progesterone deficiency, Self Harm, suicidal ideations, Suicide, suicide and PMT, valium overdose on September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
What’s the point of writing a Blog if I can’t talk about the “hard stuff”? Should I gloss my posts over so they don’t trigger people? Yes, maybe a little but there’s no point in hiding the truth from the world because the world won’t understand where it went wrong if people like me fudge [...]
The Illness or the Medication?
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, Medication, mental illness, Thoughts, tagged bipolar disorder, dont feel sick, Efexor, illness or medication, medication, mental illness, symptoms, Zeldox on August 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The trouble with mental illness and medications is it’s so difficult to figure out whether what you are going through is because of your illness or your medication/s! I call it the chicken or the egg scenario. For instance, am I numb from post traumatic stress disorder OR from too much Efexor? Am I tired because [...]
More on Zeldox, Ziprasidone, Geodon After Effects – Anger
Posted in Addiction, Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Medication, mental illness, Thoughts, Zeldox Ziprasidone Geodon, tagged after effects Zeldox, anger, compulsive suicide Geodon, compulsive suicide Zeldox, geodon, Geodon memory loss, God, long term effects Zeldox, medication and anger, mental health, mental illness anger, side effects Geodon, side effects Zeldox, suicidal thoughts Zeldox, Zeldox, Zeldox Agoraphobia, Zeldox Anxiety, Zeldox memory loss, Zeldox suicide, ziprasidone, ziprasidone hydrochloride on September 10, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I forgot to mention in my post below about coming off Zeldox and experiencing anger. The anger started pretty much as soon as the drug was out of my system. I must say I had never experienced this type of anger before in my life. I would virtually “explode” if someone upset me, I would [...]
Zeldox/Geodon/Ziprasidone – After Effects
Posted in Addiction, Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Medication, mental illness, Self Harm, Suicide, Thoughts, Zeldox Ziprasidone Geodon, tagged after effects Zeldox, agoraphobia, Antipsychotic, antipsychotic suicide, anxiety, Anxiety disorder, compulsive overdosing Zeldox, compulsive suicide Geodon, compulsive suicide Zeldox, Depression, Drug, Drug overdose, geodon, Geodon memory loss, long term effects Zeldox, Obsessive–compulsive disorder, side effects Geodon, side effects Zeldox, suicidal idealations Zeldox, suicidal thoughts Zeldox, Suicide, Zeldox, Zeldox Agoraphobia, Zeldox Anxiety, Zeldox memory loss, Zeldox suicide, ziprasidone, ziprasidone hydrochloride on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is absolutely ZILCH information on the net about what people experience AFTER they have finished taking Zeldox. Of course studies indicate that long term use of this drug can cause tardive diskinesia (long term tremor) and heart issues but apart from that I have found nothing else or no other articles on what consumers [...]
Get Ready to be Amazed at Australia’s Mental Health System
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, mental illness, tagged antipsychotics, anxiety, australias mental health system, bipolar disorder, CAT team, Depression, mental health system, psychiatrists, Zeldox on February 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s been a while since i’ve written here but much has happened I can assure you of that. You will notice I have charted my symptoms at the header of my blog. These are a month and a half’s worth of symptoms which have helped me immensely in the past few weeks. It all started when I [...]
Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder
Posted in bipolar disorder, mental illness, tagged bipolar chart, bipolar disorder, bipolar symptoms, mental health plan, mood chart, psychiatrists, psychologists, symptoms chart, symptoms of bipolar disorder on October 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am seeing a psychiatrist through the public system. He continually tells me I am well now after 15 months. I get so perplexed by his reasonings I decided to write down my moods every day for a month and show him what I go through each day. I refuse to believe I am “well [...]
Sharing With You
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, mental illness, Self Harm, Suicide, tagged bipolar disorder, contributing factors to suicide, Depression, overdosing, suicidal thoughts, Suicide, suicide prevention, suicide warning signs on September 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
What a night i’ve had. I’m writing this post in the hope that no one in my family reads it. I’ve made the mistake of telling them my blog address and every now and then they go to it to check out what i’ve been writing. I’ve thought about closing my blog down due to [...]
Smile For Life
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, mental illness, tagged emotion, happiness, sad demeanour, serious demeanour, smile, wellbeing on August 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I really hate it when people say I should smile more. For those who don’t know me, I have a serious demeanour. I don’t remember always having this demeanour but certainly over the past few years I have come to notice it more and more. It could be a result of my bipolar disorder or [...]
Do I Look Bipolar?
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, mental illness, tagged anxiety, bipolar disorder, Depression, looking normal, mental illness, strains of mental illness on August 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I know it’s been a while since i’ve blogged on here. It’s been hard to get the motivation up and hard to think of new topics all the time to write about to keep readers interested. One thing I worry about is whether I look bipolar to other people. I think I can tell when [...]
Nutrition Beats Mental Illness
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, fatigue, mental illness, tagged bipolar disorder, Chronic Fatigue, chronic nutritional deficiencies, Depression, depression and nutrition, diet changes, dietician, fatigue, food allergies, food deficiencies, Foods that Beat Depression, mental health, nutrition, nutrition counsellor, Schizophrenia, seratonin, vitamin supplments, vitamins on August 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’ve decided to go and see an nutritionist. While googling “depression and nutrition” I came across these case histories that I wanted to share with you. Liz started suffering from depression at the age of 14. By the time she was 17 she had become extremely anxious, fearful and depressed and was hearing voices. She [...]
What is Normal?
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, mental illness, tagged being normal, bipolar disorder, bipolar medication, medication, normalicy and bipolar disorder, personality traits, Zeldox on August 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Some people think that bipolar disorder doesn’t dictate who they are as a person. I often find this hard to believe because almost everything I do, think or say is affected by the illness. I even regulate my personality through medication. The type of medication I take determines my personality traits. For instance, when I take [...]
OCD (Obsesive Compulsive Disorder)
Posted in bipolar disorder, mental illness, tagged bipolar disorder, Depression, invading personal space, Obsessive Comuplsive Disorder, OCD on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My parents came to my house for lunch yesterday. I was looking forward to seeing them as it had been a few months since we last got together. Having listened to a podcast earlier on in the week by Captain Joe of Bipolar Nation on bipolar disorder and how visitors can disrupt your illness and home life by [...]
Helping a Depressed Person
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, tagged assisting recovery, bipolar disorder, Depression, Helping a depressed person, mental illness, recovering from a mental illness, supporting a depressed person, supporting bipolar disorder, supporting mental illness, understanding a depressed person, understanding depression, understanding mental illness on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I remember when I had a relapse of bipolar disorder about five months ago that I didn’t get a lot of support when I needed it most. My partner found it very difficult to cope with my endless sleeping and lack of enthusiasm towards life. I remember having to psych myself up for half an [...]
Hallucinations
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, mental illness, Schizophrenia, tagged auditory hallucinations, bipolar disorder, bipolar I disorder, bipolar II disorder, dellusions, hallucinations, hypomania, Schizophrenia on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hallucinations may occur in any of the senses: auditory (for example, hearing voices or music), gustatory (for example, unpleasant tastes), olfactory (for example, unpleasant smells), somatic (for example, a feeling of “electricity”), tactile (for example, a sensation of being touched, or “skin crawling” sensations), visual (for example, flashes of light, colors or images). Delusions (fixed, false, [...]
Bipolar Poetry
Posted in bipolar disorder, tagged bipolar disorder, bipolar poetry, poetry, Rapid Cycling on July 13, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Writing poetry can be very therapeutic for those with a mental illness. Poetry can allow you to tell without telling, to process difficult feelings and emotions, to help you or the reader understand complicated situations, to take layers of complicated life’s experiences and put meaning into them and to process and resolve trauma. Bipolar Poetry [...]
I Can Do Anything
Posted in bipolar disorder, Depression, tagged bipolar disorder, black dog institute, delusions, delusions of grandeur, Depression, grandeur, grandiose ideas, hypomania, mania on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
People with delusions of grandeur may exhibit a drastically exaggerated sense of self-importance or may believe that they are a famous person or religious figure. They may believe they can do anything, believing they are vastly superior to those around them. They can have inflated self esteem and false beliefs in special abilities. Delusions of [...]
Zeldox – A Worker’s Anti-Psychotic
Posted in Addiction, Anxiety, bipolar disorder, Medication, mental illness, Thoughts, Zeldox Ziprasidone Geodon, tagged anti-psychotic, bipolar disorder, drugs, geodon, Schizophrenia, wonder drug, Zeldox, ziprasidone, ziprasidone hydrochloride on June 26, 2008 | 70 Comments »
I wanted to tell you about a new drug i’m taking called “Zeldox”. It is an anti-psychotic and it’s medical name is ziprasidone hydrochloride. It is predominately used for treatment of Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder. After much experimentation with finding the right combination of drugs for me I was introduced to “the wonder drug” from [...]
