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I am so upset by the fascist political realm, I'm afraid of the ultra-right manipulating the Presidential election. I am an activist; I have written thousands of postcards to voters, and am passing out postcards telling about the harms to all of us, if Project 2025 passes.

I am terrified, angry, and extremely depressed. Every third night, I am up all night.

Tomorrow, fortunately, I have a Zoom appointment with my psychiatrist. I will ask ...

I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder but my mood is fine. Why diagnose me with a mood disorder when I don't have a mood disorder? All I have is occasional episodes with hallucinations.

Abilify 5mg
Lamictal 25mg
Doxepin 5mg

I was given a BP 1 diagnosis with BPD and prescribed the following regimen. I already wasn't sleeping, today is 5 days straight. The NP said to take the Abilify at night since it would sedate me. Well, I believe the exact opposite occurred. Even with the Doxepin and .5mg Klonopin I went ape $#%^ and was in and out of my bed all night, no sleep. I felt ...

I have had some weird things happen because I have religious delusions while manic and I think alot about the end times and stuff like that. However once when I was manic I had something really weird happen when they put me in this Catholic hospital. First off people were talking about the end times and ask me what I thought about had it started yet. I told them what I thought and then some ...

Diagnosed 15 years ago with bipolar disorder with psychotic features, our son has climbed to a dangerous place and only returns to the person I recognize when he agrees to take medication. He never stays on the meds and relapses and only gets to a safe place with meds. I realize this is not unusual. What I hope is unusual is the treatment he gets from a psychologist. This "professional" tells him he does not ...

Hello all. Puppy bowl sunday. Anyone do journaling and as it helped? I find I get more depressed and moody writing things down.

What I thought about Conduct Disorder Unspecified is Bipolar, throughout my childhood, I would behave in antisocial ways temporarily until I get depressed as Cyclothymic symptoms, at age 15, it turned into Bipolar Disorder.

I thought that I have Conduct Disorder Unspecified, but maybe it's a differential diagnosis.

My sister-in-law is a she-devil. She uses female bullying to make my life misterable whenever I have the misfortune to see her with my brother. She listens to all my brother's phone conversations. I asked my brother a couple of days ago if I could have a private phone conversation with him, without his wife present. He got angry and said, "If is not there, then neither am I." I said she treats ...

Has anyone developed high cholesterol from Seroquel? My total cholesterol is 315 and my doctor thinks Seroquel is partly to blame.

Hello friends here in the Bipolar Forum,
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I've been a member of Psychforums for many years. I joined in February of 2013, over 10 years ago. I came here to get support and share with "someone" about my illness that left me with few answers as to what it was, why I had it, HOW to ...