Are we miss understood

[kris123]

Each of us has bipolar or has a question about someone on here.  I am have a mixed state and relize it will pass with the help of some new meds.  Knowing in your mind what is happening will get you through.  I know the feelings are very hard to deal with, but you got to know in your mind that you are ok.  The meds help.  I just want to be happy and not worry and I am sure some one has felt that.

I got from happy to sad, to a mixed state, and drpressed.  Is any one like this.  On four difference meds to clam you body down.  I feel crazy.

[tweekie]

I think I had somesort of a mixed state 2 summers ago, and I know how you feel, I had racing obsessive thoughts that I was going to die, I was easily tipped into agitation, I cryed constantly as though I was depressed. I had anxiety attacks that I would wake up with, panic attacks that would wake me out of sleep, what little sleep I could get. I couldn't enjoy myself. I couldn't look people in the eye, I think I was borderline psychotic. I prayed to God over and over and over, saying the Lords prayer. But I was full of some sort of a driving force that would not yield. I would have sex and orgasm to feel something else, even if it were many times a day. I didn't think anyone understood what I was going through. I stopped talking to many people, my boyfriend was starting to get discouraged because it was relentless. I couldn't drink alcohol cause that would make it worse surprisingly.  I have a history of substance abuse, but I had no desire to take any drug, even the xanax, ativan, or whatever else was prescribed. I know how you feel and I want you to know that it passes. I'm not sure if what I had was a mixed state, because I started taking effexor and it started to lift. It could have been psychotic depressive state, but I know that feeling of persisting dysphoria, where you feel that you are losing control, and will not come out of it. It will pass. You will get through.

[hell1971]

I have been rapid cycling since last year in a mixed state and was on 3 meds now i am just off one so i am left with two, my docs says although mono would be ideal he beleives i will always need at least two but we will try mono soon and see what happens. I have not yet found stability and when I do I know I will probably want to be free of meds, we all strive to be happy and we have to believe that this will come. I personally beleive mixed states although hard to be jumping from one mood state to another is somehow has its upside if you get the hypomania as well as you know when things are bad they will change as quick as they came. I feel for the ones who suffer deep depression or mixed states with no euphoric state. take care all bipolarians out there.

[Xila31]

I have mixed states a lot. But I'm only on 1 med and I only just started it. I think in the end all of us are different because bipolar is a chemical disorder. So, even though you are the same in one way to one person, you are completely different than them in another way. It is the same with other hormonal and chemical disorders.

I hope you start to fell better soon.