News of Mood Disorders

i've read most bipolar people tend to drink heavily/smoke when they are experiencing symptoms of mania or depression... the abuse is more a symptom than a cause.

wondering what everyone's opinion/experience is, especially with weed - i quit last time i went manic mostly cuz i read it just wasnt a good idea, but i feel like it helped me self-medicate. alcohol just makes me feel worse, but its all im usin now...

whatever im ...

Fame means nothing.

I just spoke to a congressman today, and am going to be featured on ABC News as one of those 'success stories'.

But I'm not a success.

I'm a subscriber to self-injury.

Manic Depressant with suicidal tendencies.

I've tried so hard to leave my past. I can't. It's like an old friend told me in the begining, 'you're a F**king projects kid and you always will be'....

I've got so many people ...

i don't think anybodys going to read this, so i'm just going to vent for the past four years of my life. if anybody does read this, know that it is very long. well, you can probably tell that my life sucks. i guess it first started when i moved. i used to live in WV, and was essentially a total nerd, but i still played sports, hung out with my friends. i didn't really ...

I need to rant! I tried talking to a friend of mine about how depressed I've been lately. I haven't been clinically diagnosed or anything, but there are things I've had problems with, ed's, si, od'ing etc. So he keeps asking me if I'm ok, and he's usually such a nice caring guy that I decide to talk about it with him a little. I was hesitant, because you never know how people are going ...

Brace yourselves fellow depressives because I'm going to have a bit of a rant as I'm after the answer to recovery and just want to know if anyone is having a similar experience or even better, has RECOVERED from this gruelling experience! (NB If anyone reading this is feeling quite depressed then protect yourself and don't read on, it is really for the eyes of recovered depressives!)
How do you cure low self esteem combined ...

A friend of mine was talking to me about Celexa today. I'm usually anti drugs for treating disorders, and I'm not really sure why. Maybe because it seems that the doctors just throw drugs at you to make the problem go away. I could never try therapy (I don't think). And I think, if Celexa will make things better.... but THEN I think, what if I'm just using this as a quick fix to something ...

hello dear forum angels
I've been reading the messages here when I was depressed and they helped me a lot.
I was reading them when I was getting better, and it also helped me a lot.

now I have a question I'm asking myself day & night:

I met him in april, we were traveling, I was happy and shining. we fell in love quickly and everything looked so perfect. we decided to get married. ...

my "boyfriend" who i nearly know 4 years (20.11), just told me that he is not sure if he's still in love with me. he told me that he needs some time to think about it (a couple of months). it's not the first time he tells me something like this, but it's just very hard :cry:
he is not only the person i ...

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I am looking for some more insight into this. MY Dh was diagnosed with bpII about a year and a half ago. Since then my life has been turned upside down. He has such weird tendencies and I just don't understand them. We have a 2 year old daughter together and when he is here he is usually 100 percent there for her, no matter his state of mind. As soon as I realize that ...