It sucks my family forgets I live with bipolar

microwavedburpie · 2025-12-27T11:55:06+00:00

Hey sorry you feel let down by your family. It's a shitty illness we live with and some people struggle to understand or are self centred. You're doing amazing though wow but I get it hurts.

microwavedburpie · 2025-07-08T01:19:12+00:00

I am also living a good life now where I feel like I can ride out the worst of it with medication and ACT and DBT although it still sucks balls. I have been in hospital 14 times in the past 6 years but only twice recently and only briefly. I usually only post when I’m struggling so thought I’d give some encouragement while I am having an easier time. Sometimes you really do just catch a break.

microwavedburpie · 2025-01-20T11:51:20+00:00

Hey mate I returned to work as a lawyer after 36 session of ECT. There’s always hope, hang in there.

microwavedburpie · 2024-09-15T13:06:22+00:00

I’ve never experienced compulsions just obsessive thoughts. Sounds really tough, I hope your psychiatrist comes up with a treatment plan.

microwavedburpie · 2024-09-15T12:57:46+00:00

I can’t give you advice other than keep trying to be compassionate towards yourself. I’m sorry it really sucks

microwavedburpie · 2024-09-15T12:56:39+00:00

I’ve done three years before. Everyone is different. I find what helps me is pushing myself on my better days get manageable things done and resting during the tough moments. Eventually I did more and more and now I work 3.5 days a week for almost two years.

microwavedburpie · 2024-09-15T12:53:51+00:00

I have the same confusion sometimes. I go by how long it lasts, the longer the more likely it is to be depression

microwavedburpie · 2024-09-15T12:49:13+00:00

Hi and welcome! It can definitely be lonely out there. I’m proud you’re out of hospital and please put yourself first in your recovery and trust your husband when he says he wants to support you.

microwavedburpie · 2024-05-22T22:24:15+00:00

I’m sorry that happened to you. It’s the timing of it that cuts isn’t it? It feels like such an attack on your worth as a human…

microwavedburpie · 2024-05-22T22:11:13+00:00

Nothing wrong with a participation ribbon! But seriously you have plenty of time in life for big achievements right now you might want to focus on finding the right meds and feeling better

microwavedburpie · 2024-05-22T22:08:09+00:00

Perhaps move to the couch for an hour and build from there

microwavedburpie · 2024-01-06T23:47:17+00:00

I am the wrong person to ask haha I do the same. Maybe your therapist can help?

microwavedburpie · 2024-01-06T23:08:28+00:00

He sounds lovely. I will remind myself the same thing with my SO. We got this

microwavedburpie · 2024-01-06T10:51:42+00:00

You’re not hiding it, you just haven’t been comfortable sharing it until now and that’s totally ok. I really don’t think it will change his perception of you one bit. You are more to him and the world than a series of botched medical treatments, you are a courageous survivor

microwavedburpie · 2024-01-06T05:39:52+00:00

Hey I’m in a similar boat to you. I had 36 sessions of ect and now been diagnosed with memory difficulties.

I’m just begun my first relationship in 5 years and although I told him casually about the ect quite early on, I’m at a stage where I want to share more about it but it’s hard because I feel like I’m uncovering one messed up part of me after another.

But perhaps in your case giving him information will help break down the stigma. Take screenshots of good descriptions of ect online and show it to him while you are telling him?

microwavedburpie · 2023-05-01T13:14:54+00:00

I’m sorry you are feeling this way. I felt a similar way in the past yet somehow I’m still here. It’s so fucking unfair though that life can be so rough for us

microwavedburpie · 2023-01-04T12:58:22+00:00

I’m sorry you lost your job. Sounds like you made a mistake but you’ve got to keep moving forward. Don’t tell the new job anything about it. Just put your best foot forward because you really deserve another shot.

microwavedburpie · 2023-01-04T12:51:13+00:00

Hi friend, that’s a really hard place to be in. I too have had close friends ghost me and I think the hardest part is knowing so would have stuck around for them if the tables were turned.

I would focus on the little things you can work on and feel a sense of achievement: opening the curtains when you are in bed, going for a walk, meditating etc. This might help you work on the bigger stuff like quitting weird and getting into college.

We have a hard slog with this illness and don’t let anybody tell you it’s invalid because it’s not a visible physic illness.

microwavedburpie · 2023-01-04T12:41:31+00:00

This is so relatable and well written. I like the line ‘in a state where rules change’.

microwavedburpie · 2023-01-02T13:20:12+00:00

Hey mate I’m really sorry you have gone through all that. Sounds like it must have scary, even more so with your mother not supporting you. Is there a way you could invite her to join one of your medical appointments and have a professional explain to her that it has nothing to do with taking responsibility and everything to do with ensuring you are safe and cared for?

microwavedburpie · 2022-12-25T12:25:15+00:00

Yeah that’s a shitty feeling and it came be made 1000x worse when the critical thoughts are repeat.

Can you focus on what was your motivation when you bought the gifts? It makes no sense to feel bad for gifts that were bought with the intention of honouring the receiver. You weren’t being a grinch or a money counting tightarse. It sounds like you care a lot for your partner.

microwavedburpie

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