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I am in a serious mixed mood - depression mixed with anxiety. I have been crying for days and really bad and I am not able to control it. I am having such a hard time at work focusing. I am bipolar. The last time I was this bad was about five years ago and I turned to drugs. I am fighting the urge to smoke weed because I know that it will only make things worse in the long run. I go to the dr Thursday. I am on Limital(sp) 200mcg. I am getting about 2-3 hours of sleep a night. I am not sure if I can handle this any more. My son is one and I cried mad yesterday in front of him and it is hard on him even at that age. Dealing with being by myself with two kids, trying to buy a house, and finding out my son's dad has a new girlfriend is just worried me to death. How do I cope
Kris123,
Hope you have a good weekend! Plans come through. Intimate friendships are worth building, it takes trust, longevity and love. I have five and that is just what I need when things are in the dumpster or they are really manic and good, they curb me in well.
zzzmykids
Hope you have a good weekend! Plans come through. Intimate friendships are worth building, it takes trust, longevity and love. I have five and that is just what I need when things are in the dumpster or they are really manic and good, they curb me in well.
zzzmykids
Dear kris123,
Use your manic to clean or read everything you can on child rearing except dr. crazy spock.
I am sorry you hate your house, when I would feel like that when the kids were growing up, my sweet husband would take us through model homes, I'm great at not signing in on the "list" so they can't call us back. Doesn't cost anything but gas to go to homes, babies tend to like all the different smells and color stimulation.
I would clean my home in the middle of the night when really manic, not vacuum but laundry, mop, wipe down cabinets, rearrange my closet and living and family rooms. I did this for years before I knew I was manic, thought I was just a clean freak....and I would bake and bake and bake.
When manic during the day, my motto is don't do any harm and if I would leave, I literally got out of the car and would yell at a driver that cut me off or was speeding through a school zone. So I tend to hermit/stay in or in back yard. Roses grow great, bushes are trimmed and no black widow or brown recluses in corners.
I love to read. The last bout of depression changed my procession of speed reading so I read slower but still read on a swing, chair, bed or when kids small in their beds.
Get Hope back into your life. We are all here, we have all had manic and major beyond dark depressions, we write poems, bury our heads when we want to scream at the kids, we all find our way through it with HELP.
Reach out, reach in and find that strength you have, reach for help and stay in here we will try to encourage and support.\
Thank you kris123 for being so open.
zzzmykids
Use your manic to clean or read everything you can on child rearing except dr. crazy spock.
I am sorry you hate your house, when I would feel like that when the kids were growing up, my sweet husband would take us through model homes, I'm great at not signing in on the "list" so they can't call us back. Doesn't cost anything but gas to go to homes, babies tend to like all the different smells and color stimulation.
I would clean my home in the middle of the night when really manic, not vacuum but laundry, mop, wipe down cabinets, rearrange my closet and living and family rooms. I did this for years before I knew I was manic, thought I was just a clean freak....and I would bake and bake and bake.
When manic during the day, my motto is don't do any harm and if I would leave, I literally got out of the car and would yell at a driver that cut me off or was speeding through a school zone. So I tend to hermit/stay in or in back yard. Roses grow great, bushes are trimmed and no black widow or brown recluses in corners.
I love to read. The last bout of depression changed my procession of speed reading so I read slower but still read on a swing, chair, bed or when kids small in their beds.
Get Hope back into your life. We are all here, we have all had manic and major beyond dark depressions, we write poems, bury our heads when we want to scream at the kids, we all find our way through it with HELP.
Reach out, reach in and find that strength you have, reach for help and stay in here we will try to encourage and support.\
Thank you kris123 for being so open.
zzzmykids
I am talking to two co-workers who listen to me. The one girl want to make plans this weekend so maybe that will help to be out of the house. For some reason when I get like this I hate everything around me, the way my house looks, I had my house.:(
kris? do you have any family, friends, coworkers, anyone to help come in and relieve the stress? Go outside when someone is there with the baby, sit in car, turn up the radio really loud on a really loud band, now.....scream, scream, scream!!!!!! I did this lots when my own girls were little and my brother in law also bp dumped his five under 7, on me. But sometimes it was just the pressure of two.
You need to call your psych and get in now, be firm, tell them you cannot make it until Thursday and you need to be seen!
I used dull hedge trimmers, let the kids play outside and I would trim and trim and trim, great for manicured yard.
My Mom used to put us on the kind of clothes line that went around in circles in our bib overalls and leashes, we would chase eachother while she worked or did laundry outside.
You can, if he walks, and you don't have an enclosed playpen or yard use a rope line from one tree to the other and use a dog leash to on the rope line and fasten the hook to around the back of his biboveralls.
These are all extreme, granted. Which is worse, standing and screaming until he cries and is insecure or taking a breather outside where he can safely explore and you can trim bushes, pull weeds but be outside. NOTE: Do not put rope done low enough for him to tangle head, neck or hands in it...high up between trees and long, long dog fat leash.
Hope some of these help....Also, any book by Dr. Leman on rearing children is awesome.
Good Luck,
zzzmykids
You need to call your psych and get in now, be firm, tell them you cannot make it until Thursday and you need to be seen!
I used dull hedge trimmers, let the kids play outside and I would trim and trim and trim, great for manicured yard.
My Mom used to put us on the kind of clothes line that went around in circles in our bib overalls and leashes, we would chase eachother while she worked or did laundry outside.
You can, if he walks, and you don't have an enclosed playpen or yard use a rope line from one tree to the other and use a dog leash to on the rope line and fasten the hook to around the back of his biboveralls.
These are all extreme, granted. Which is worse, standing and screaming until he cries and is insecure or taking a breather outside where he can safely explore and you can trim bushes, pull weeds but be outside. NOTE: Do not put rope done low enough for him to tangle head, neck or hands in it...high up between trees and long, long dog fat leash.
Hope some of these help....Also, any book by Dr. Leman on rearing children is awesome.
Good Luck,
zzzmykids
I am in a manic state too and talking to every one and rapid thoughts with rapid cycling
He gave me lazorpam but it don't work!! He also tried to put me on Nuerton(sp), but I think that is making things worse so I stopped taking it. I am going out of my mind. I know this will pass but it really hurts right now - the mixed moods are the worse.
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