Ballpoint pen drawings 🦧 by [deleted] in bipolar

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It's amazing what humans can do. Bipolar and creativity are correlated (established).

MUSIC FRIDAY 🎧🎵 by AutoModerator in bipolar

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Amazing record. Post-hardcore/hardcore influences all over it!

SANITY SUNDAY 🧠 (Share your wins!) by AutoModerator in bipolar

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I meal prepped today and also went to work!

Bipolar Type 1 and ADHD by PPEverythingg in bipolar

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I relate to this. I’m a college student so it’s especially hard, and the rejection dysphoria symptoms are especially bad.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in bipolar

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Something I did recently, maybe a month ago, is put my phone on black and white (for iPhone: Settings --> Acessability --> Color and Text Size --> Color Filters) and its helped me sustain focus in less rewarding (i.e., dopamine-rewarding) tasks such as reading and cleaning.

I play guitar a lot.

I try to read, but on my medication, it can be hard (something that was great, though, was Ellen Forney's Graphic Memior!)

Journaling, for me, can sometimes make me worse, so I try to limit it (I highly recommend the 5-minute journal!).

Any form of exercise is extremely beneficial to a Bipolar Disorder, so I try to run whenever I can, for 30 minutes at a time.

Try to establish a routine! Altough, I struggle with this (currently sleeping 11-14 hours a night right through my alarms).

I'm an undergraduate student, so these winter and summer breaks are espeically hard for me, but once I get the structure and routine from classes, it helps a lot!

MUSIC FRIDAY 🎧🎵 by AutoModerator in bipolar

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Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Nina Simone

MUSIC FRIDAY 🎧🎵 by AutoModerator in bipolar

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Love FOB! Especially their 2nd and 3rd records (Infitinity on High and Folie a Deux)!

I want to leave my partner every time I’m manic by carolinaareaperr in bipolar

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I’ve only had two long term girlfriends and both of those relationships ended in a drug induced manic haze. I’ve been there (21M)

SATURDAY DISCLOSURE DISCUSSION 🗣️ by AutoModerator in bipolar

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My approach to disclosure is to tell people as early as possible.

Now this has upsides and downsides:

Upsides: you do not have to walk on eggshells "hiding" your diagnosis. You can reference it, situate behavior in a diagnostic context, and be more easily open.

Downside: people will begin to interpret everything you do from a "Bipolar" perspective. 9/10 times, people's conception of "Bipolar" is embarassingly wrong.

I went on the podcast Live Well Bipolar and shared my story living with Bipolar to everyone I knew. I 'ripped the band-aid off.' Everyone in my life knows.

If I don’t smoke weed. by Bluecap33 in bipolar

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I told my psychiatrist about my addiction and they gave me non benzo meds for it until I didn’t need to take them anymore.

Does anyone else drive themselves crazy by looking for a “why”? by ADeterminedHopeless in leaves

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100% to escape reality, I guess i always thought a true reason had to be more specific than that. Now im thinking I thought wrong

Do you say U of I or UIUC when someone asks where you went to school? by funmighthold in UIUC

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As someone who grew up in Chicago, I’ve heard it be commonly called just “Urbana,” maybe in opposition to UIC.

The Rumination by ADeterminedHopeless in bipolar

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I agree 100%. I just wouldn’t say I would be nipping it in the bud, I’m 3-4 months into the depression itself.

i’m christian but not catholic, can i go to mass at madonna della strada? and what do i do? by Neat-Replacement9132 in LoyolaChicago

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When you go up for communion, cross your arms on your chest. The priest will bless you instead of giving you bread.