am I bipolar? or just anxiety? please help!!!?
ByOk so I am diagnosed with anxiety to begin with. I think I have many problems!! I feel so messed up! I went through councelling for almost a year and my councelor said I am absolutly normal, and I only have anxiety. I feel so weird lately. I know that ever since I was little I would take everything to heart. If any one yelled at me I would cry, even at work, and I hate people one minue, if they do something to me or say something. I always take things the wrong way/ Even if things are a compliment, I thinkk in my mind t really isn;t a compliment. I am not dellusional however, likke I do not think people are out to get me..!! so then if I get upset about something, I cry and get really hissy, grumpy and become a huge bitch! If I like someone then I love them.. like it is always one extreme or the other! but I can change form hating that person who said something rude to me.. to loving that same person because they apologized. ALso I am 18, female. I was wondering are all bipolar people permiscuos like do they all have unprotected sex? Because I ma still a virgin, however I do masturbate to get the urges out. I even fantasize… Am I messed up? Please only serious ansers I am actually really scared!!!!
Going from love to hate and having no in between is not a sign of bipolar disorder. It might be a sign of borderline personality disorder, but you’re only 18, so you’re a bit too young for that diagnosis. Have you talked to your therapist about the extremes in personal relationships that you have?
Anxiety can make a person irritable, cry easily and become "hissy, grumpy and a huge ****".
As for the sexuality question. Masturbation and fantasy is normal. No, not everyone with bipolar disorder is promiscuous or overly sexual and no not even those who are promiscuous are running around having unprotected sex, they may be using condoms and other birth control!
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May 31st, 2010 at 4:54 am
Going from love to hate and having no in between is not a sign of bipolar disorder. It might be a sign of borderline personality disorder, but you’re only 18, so you’re a bit too young for that diagnosis. Have you talked to your therapist about the extremes in personal relationships that you have?
Anxiety can make a person irritable, cry easily and become "hissy, grumpy and a huge ****".
As for the sexuality question. Masturbation and fantasy is normal. No, not everyone with bipolar disorder is promiscuous or overly sexual and no not even those who are promiscuous are running around having unprotected sex, they may be using condoms and other birth control!
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May 31st, 2010 at 5:30 am
NO! you’re not messed up. maybe just a little emotional, but i wouldn’t say bipolar. anxiety can cause all of these symptoms, from over thinking and reacting much worse to an insult or yelling. and you’re 18, so of course you fantasize…you’re hormones are wild and you’re body is ready, and wanting to have sex(which doesnt mean you should! it’s just human nature)
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May 31st, 2010 at 5:47 am
No, it sounds like your are just human. We all behave irrationally sometimes. The ancient stoics believed that the cause of all suffering was a lack of rational understanding of ones self. They found it helpful to take a certain amount of time out of the day to think about their interactions with others and their emotions and really examine them to see if they were logical. I think they were on to something.
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May 31st, 2010 at 6:37 am
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All treatment recommended by the doctors should be tested and approved and quite rightly so.
That makes sense right
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Despite The fact that some of these other therapies mentioned here do have overwhelming benefits some, which have saved needless amputations, needless pain and trauma, and much loss of life.
Drugs are not the answer for depression with mind altering damaging chemicals or any other mental illness.
This is a fundamental principle try you grasp this fully –
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1,get someone to massage your back and legs at least 3 times a week use peanut oil or a mix of 50-50 olive and peanut oil.
2 use the violet ray machine an Edgar Cayce device google search this — 3 times a week on the other days especially on the spine….we use it every day with very positive results
3.get a tent sleep out side 3times a week utilising earth energy - nature can help big time especially with how you feel how much energy you have
4 study and apply good nutrition— adele davis books =protein minerals =iron essential fatty acids omega 3 6 9 protein etc
5 ensure your thyroid is working well
6 ensure you do at least I hr per day some kind of voluntary work when you are able..the reasons you are ill , or poor or have allsorts of bad things happen to you is because of karma —–usually from past lives but some from this one –voluntary work will offset your mistakes— how much it offsets well that is down to god and how much you do. Healing us is in direct proportion to the help we give others ie your healing comes with helping others achieve theirs so if people are doing very little in helping others —they suffer more and longer…and if they are doing a lot they get well faster….so now you know what to do ,,and like a lot of us are already doing being of service.
7 be amongst people who are giving, friendly who have time for you who love you , choose your friends well
8 be or get to a place which personally love or like
9 get and do some work which you like or love
10 ensure you do no acts which hurt or inflict on anyone –don’t want to add to your karma do we !!!
11 spiritual healing and reiki find good therapists who offer this service in your area
12 think good positive thoughts, laughter, look at comedy, play good uplifting music,
13 avoid at all costs exposure to violence, murders, suffering ,death ,tragedies, -feed upon good things uplifting things, things that feel like a breath of fresh air..
14 Positive affirmation- that’s right programme your self in the mirror , thoughts are things words are things actions are things , all have influence, few people realise these things can have an effect on themselves .
15 a detox —— toxins can influence how you feel big time
16 hugs get plenty of them in your daily life you would be amazed at how people feel after a few decent hugs…
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17 loads of exercise running walking climbing but something which you enjoy
18 rid yourselves of all aspartame laden foods and drink and many additives get back to a wholesome organic diet diet –study and apply good nutrition including water intake
A total cure however is tied up with karma so you can imagine just how important is the voluntary work.
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Voluntary work is a very good idea especially when u consider this principle
,.all our healing yours mine is linked right alongside our efforts and contribution to others.in direct proportion to the help we give others
ie your healing comes with helping others =so if people are doing very little in helping others —they suffer more and longer…and if they are doing a lot they get well faster…
.so now you know what to do ,,and like a lot of us are already doing being of service.
Do not even dream of healing to come to you if you are doing wrongful acts , wrongful words , wrongful thoughts.
1 hour a day will make a difference
May 31st, 2010 at 6:54 am
Sounds more like Borderline PD or even just the anxiety……. It’s definitely not Bipolar.
Everyone has all the symptoms of Bipolar Disorder……. because everyone has mood swings, momentary loss of judgment, likes to go shopping, likes sex, feels down sometimes, gets angry now and then and is hyper on occasion. The difference is that all of these symptoms in Bipolar are so intense that they interfere with your ability to function. Think of a pole (biPOLEr) with 0 at the center (0 being normal) and 10 at one end (manic) and -10 at the other (deep depression). Most people have swings but stay within 3 to -3. I have fairly severe Bipolar 1 but since my psychosis is mild I go from -9 to 9…. Also depression that comes and goes is not bipolar but just recurring depression, you have to have mania for it to be Bipolar….. you have to go to both ends of the pole.
Rapidly changing moods or becoming angry or sad easily is not Bipolar. That is just having emotions. People with Bipolar Disorder do not change emotions quickly, they go through long periods of deep depression followed by long periods of mania or elevated mood, long periods meaning weeks or months or years. Mood effects everything about you…. your energy level, self esteem, sleep patterns, appetite, sexuality, emotional response, etc…..
This is what it is like to have Bipolar disorder:
Depression - too tired to get out of bed, shower, even to brush my teeth. Cry all the time, sleep 16 hours a day. Feelings of self loathing and guilt that drive me to think of suicide but I’m to tired to even think about how to go about killing myself. It makes you feel small and worthless and completely insignificant. It makes you think about how big the world is and how meaningless you are in it….. and it refuses to let you have any good thoughts or see any good things…. when you look in the mirror all you see is pain, you don’t even see yourself, you don’t taste your favorite foods anymore, see that flowers are blooming, whether or not the sun is out, you become so inward that you hardly even notice your surroundings….. You don’t even feel love for people anymore…. positive thoughts are just not possible…… it is a deep dark hole with no way out and no light for hope…. and most of all it makes you feel sooooo alone. And even if there were someone who cared about you they would be better off if you killed yourself……. because all you will ever be is a burden……. this can last from a couple of weeks to a couple of years.
Mania - Way too happy! PARTY GIRL! love drink and drugs. Talk really fast and pressured because my thoughts are going faster than my mouth can keep up with. Hypersexual - like I sleep with strangers and guys I just met on the internet or I masturbate 10 times a day. I once became bisexual because there were twice as many people to sleep with. doen load porn and spend tone sof money on sex toys. Spending sprees….. I once spent my mortgage money on african violets, yep, $1500 on African violets (then I got depressed and let them all die). Quit my job because I wanted my vacation pay for lottery tickets and I was so convinced I would win that I started shopping and writing bad checks because I’d be rich as soon as the numbers were drawn. Decided that I could replace the furnace in my home by myself… I mean how hard can it be….. Only sleep 2 or maybe 3 hours a night for months on end and never feel tired. In the end I was unemployed, $30,000 in debt, and had almost lost my home, which needed a new furnace because I had removed the old one.. or parts of it anyway. This can last for months.
Mania can also be dysphoric, or rageful. Children are more subject to rage if they have Bipolar. it is a rage that completely takes control of you and you HAVE to tear things apart, throw things, kick things, hurt people……….. there is no controlling it.
I also have mixed states when I am depressed and manic at the same time which are truly the worst… By body and mind are depressed but there is this undercurrent of energy running all the time….. I’m highly emotional but the emotions tend to be negative (guilt and anger) I have intrusive thoughts and urges to mutilate myself (like wanting to stick my hands in the garbage disposal or cooking them on the BBQ), and I also have psychotic episodes where I hallucinate. This is when I am most suseptible to suicide because I am depressed, wanting to hurt myself, and I have the mental energy to plan and carry it out.
When I am on meds I am a normal 45 year old single mom of 3 and no one would even guess that I have Bipolar.
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