News of Mood Disorders

My wife has been diagnosed biploar as of 4 months ago. However, she's been swinging in and out of these episodes for about 10 years and I've been just taking it as it came not knowing what was really going on. I tried to get here to seek psyc help, but she denied having a problem. About 9 months ago I saw the worst of the worst with her being hospitalized 3 times in 3 ...

I'm wondering, after reading all of the articles and messages in the forums about the description of bipolar, it sounds like my mother has it. But the description talks about extreme highs and lows and it appears that these times wouldn't actually be able to be controlled.... which makes sense anyway.

But my mother seems to be able to control it to some extent when she has her high highs and her low lows. Outside ...

Tomorrow I will be 57 and I feel depressed not because of being one year older but because of another year of carring the burden of past failures. 9 years ago my business collasped and we lost the family home, moved to a new country to escape the shame and tried to start again. It's been very hard and each day I realise that we no longer have our own home to retire to and ...

I've been in therapy so long I feel that all my therapist are a member of my extented family. Not really. (my sense of humor). After many years of going to ER's and saying that I felt out of control and than being told I was just a person with a bad mood and nothing was wrong with me. Please discharge this person. I finally found out that I had bipolar disorder. I've been on ...

Hello All

I decided to come to this board in an effort to find people who perhaps understand what I am going through and can shed some advice on how to better manage my disease, my current psychologist is about as helpful as a glass full of salt water when one is succumbing to dehydration. I am 22 years old and am 7 months sober. I was diagnosed as bipolar while in a psych ward ...

Hi everyboody. I just joined the forum and I wanted to introduce myself and basically sum up my situation for you guys!
I'm 15, i'm a girl. I have an addiction to self injury and I was diagnosed with Depression and Panic Disorder a while back. WOO!
What a depressing way to introduce myself.

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I was depressed about 6am, called the Crisis Team, chatted to them & felt ok, went to sleep. Anyway, then I go into work feeling abit shaky & the (Well known) customer from hell comes in. He decides he wants me to serve him (I'm a Checkout Op) & I really can't face it, knowing it'd be one of my triggers with how I was already that particular day, so as the customers still ...

I strive each day to find what is me
I keep digging deep inside but I can not see
I find all this pain deep within me
It's a shame that nobody can see
The only cure i've found for my pain
Razors I use to cut myself in vain
Somehow seeing my blood makes me feel so secure
Making my thoughts and feelings so pure
Cutting my body comforts me so
I'm told that ...

I am a 20 year old girl with AS. I am however wondering if I have have another disorder as well.
I think I am diagnosed with depression, I can't really remember.(They told my parents about the diagnosis, not me)

I know that I don't have Seasonal Affective Disorder, because I am depressed all year, not just in the winter, allthough the winter is my most suecidal and hopeless time of year.

I just feel ...

I doubt this'll help me much but I hate seeing doctors and I don't have health insurance.

Anyways...I've always been "different". My personality is noticeably different from everyone else's - I am a person who honestly believes that the majority of people have had their "personalities" shapen and defined only by their surrounding culture, and not by their actual selves.

There is something I have told very few people, and that I have not heard ...