News of Mood Disorders

I had this when I had my daughter and I didn't even know I had it until she was an adult.

I went quite literally mad and it turned into psychosis and unfortunately resentment towards my child. However because I was never diagnosed I'm only guessing it was to do with having a child.

I just wanna say that if you're a new mother (any age) and you feel inadequate, depressed, resentful or like you've ...

I've been very quiet around the bipolar forum for a long while now. I know we don't have to explain our situations. I used to be here and raked over 3,000 posts just in this forum alone. I was very active here for the longest time. Lately, though, I've been going through a separation from my husband. We are getting a divorce. I also went through terrible dips of depression and a few manic episodes ...

I’ve only been taking antidepressants for 1 year but I still haven’t found what worked for me. I’m currently on lamictal and cymbalta (on cymbalta for 6 weeks and lamictal for 5 days) and I’m really hoping that this will help me. I’ve been on at least 15-20 different meds the past year and I was doing well on one but I had side effects and I had to be taken off of it. And ...

I would like to know what I can do to (at least mentally) get out of this situation? I am depressed because of my living, financial, and social situations. I don't really have a way to deal with this so I work until I am blue in the face, worry about my finances until I know where every dollar has gone, and stay away from fun social situations with other people. This leads me to ...

Like the title says btw. Honestly, I think I have gotten a lot of help so far. I also have schizoaffective disorder. So, I have been paranoid or am. I used to think I didn't need any help and then end up having a bunch of episodes. But now, I realized and am more aware of my condition. I would constantly have all these problems and think people were out to get me. That was ...

I'm self employed and I've read so many articles & have been given advice about loneliness by so many "experts" over the years, and they all say things like:

- join a club
- spend time with friends
- make friends at the gym
- go out and chat to people
- call family
- host a dinner party
- talk to neighbours
- make online friends

... but none of these "experts" seems to ...

Hi!

Recently I discovered my wife had an emotional affair. I already noticed she was being hypomanic (BP2) for some weeks now and I felt in my gut something was off. She was very hurtful when talking to and about me and told she wanted to end our relationship because she was never happy with me and that we are incompatible (because I have a mild form of autism).

A month prior she told me ...

I've been stuck in this condition for one year. Thought it was depersonalization but it's not. First I don't feel my body, my limbs and head. They feel completely numbed. My consciousness and vision are very altered. My body feels very distorted, also I feel detached from my own body. I have ringing in my ears. Around 5 pm when crisis kicks in it is hell. My body is numbing more and more. Ringing in ...

I wanted to create this topic for all my fellow bipolar strugglers and myself, so that we can all share our triggers and how we deal with those with no ridicule. So please share what turns your days from good to bad and/or from bad to good almost instantly.

Hopefully with what I'm going to share, it'll motivate some of you strong people to share some of your triggers and reliefs here because it'll be ...

Anyone found their depression being worsened by the state of the world/society this year? I've been speaking to a few people who have, like me, found 2019 pretty unbearable for a myriad of reasons. But I wondered how much the social and political landscape has affected everyone or exacerbated symptoms, if at all?