🧡Hey friends; I’m going to residential treatment on Monday, March 20. It’s usually a month long stay. We get phones at nights and on the weekend but I intend to use mine sparingly. Much love to you all. See you on the other side of war.
#bipolarclub
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I’m proud of you for showering. I’m proud of you for brushing your teeth. I’m proud of you for eating food. Didn’t do any of that? I’m proud of your for staying alive. Please try again. Task by task. It’s okay. Stay with me. Stay.
#bipolarclub
I used to tell people that I love winter because the cold makes me feel alive. It recently occurred to me that what actually has been happening is the cold pulls me out of dissociation. A common grounding technique is to grab an ice pack. Fascinating.
I’m trying to accept that sometimes there is no relief. Sometimes my mind is going to torture me and all I can do is cry through the pain and hope it goes away. Feel the feelings. The only way through is through. I hate this.
#bipolarclub
I have figured it out. I have decided to do
#bipolarclub
full time. This is my path forward. More updates will come soon! Thank you to everyone for your unwavering support. Anyone who wants to be involved can be. I love you all. 🧡🌈
I am having a hard time emotionally regulating with the shootings, abortion bans, etc. There’s a threat now at the major zoo by me. Brookfield Zoo. There’s no hiding from the onslaught of devastation.
#bipolarclub
Hey, everyone. I’m unwell and will be taking a break from Twitter for a while. I’m not sure how long, but I will be back. Thank you for your support and take care of yourselves. Boundaries. Make them if you can.
#bipolarclub
@jaboukie
This is as effective as a dude whipping out his junk and saying “impeach this!” Wait, that’s a bad example. He’d just get appointed to the Supreme Court.
I grow quite tired of people assuming those with
#bipolardisorder
are incapable caregivers or parents. I am a nanny as a profession. Being
#bipolar
and a victim of childhood trauma had led me on a lifelong quest to reparent myself. I study child
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🧡I am proud of myself for,
Existing
Breathing
Eating
Drinking
Showering
Putting on clean clothes
Retweeting
Scheduling a space
Crying
Expressing myself🧡
#bipolarclub
Hey
#bipolarclub
! I used to, as a child and young adult, read voraciously. Now it is a struggle. I’ve learned many of you face the same struggle. Is anyone with
#bipolardisorder
still able to read with a fair amount of ease?
This week I decided to stop checking on “friends” who don’t check on me. My circle just got a lot smaller. 😕 Checking on people who don’t really return the favor…another codependent behavior. Sigh.
#bipolarclub
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Me: Some days you will feel well, and sometimes you will struggle and have a lot of symptoms. It will repeat, but you can do this.
Depression: i wiLL nEvEr rECoVEr, mY liFe iS oVEr
Mania: I’M CURED!
#bipolarclub
I am tired of fighting my mind every day. Fighting to be alive. It’s exhausting. I am exhausted. I don’t want to be tired anymore. I want to be free. What does being free feel like? I remember a few moments here and there when I felt no weight. 1/
I found this coping card crumpled in my purse from before inpatient. It’s a reminder of how sick I felt. How crumpled I felt. So desperate to get better. I’m not on the other side yet, AND I’m climbing out. Healing isn’t linear.
#bipolarclub
.
#borderpolar
Yesterday I felt like I was having a complete crisis; today I remembered to look at who I was a year ago and I am different. And better. Healing isn’t linear.
#bipolarclub
Sometimes I’m just too exhausted to try new coping skills or to try in general. And then I feel guilty. Is it okay sometimes to not try so hard, and just to lie around and let the mind do whatever it’s going to do?
#bipolarclub
I don’t want to hear about famous
#bipolar
people and all the supposedly magnificent things they accomplished. It makes me feel like I have to do huge things, too. I want to hear about
#bipolar
people who simply find peace existing humbly however 1/
How I know I’m reaching rock bottom: my best friend has a fridge full of ice cream and pizza and I want nothing. What does your “rock bottom” look like? Mine also includes difficulty changing clothes, showering, and brushing teeth.
#bipolarclub
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Do you ever look at pictures of yourself from even just a couple years ago and wonder who the fuck you were? Sometimes I even wonder about the self I was yesterday.
#bipolarclub
It’s a cruel thing, really. You must use your brain to talk your brain out of spiraling into illness. What nonsense. It’s like using your diseased liver to tell your liver to stop having a disease.
#bipolarclub
Just found out my cat has cancer in her mouth. A mass under the tongue. I will have to put her down in a couple weeks. Worst
#Caturday
ever. She’s 19; I think I gave her a good life.
#CatsOfTwitter
I took myself on a date to McDonald’s because I deserve my own care and attention. Okay it was McDonald’s but like have you had their ice cream?
#bipolarclub
This girl is an absolute warrior. She is unapologetically herself despite relentless psychological torture from her parents. Shout out to the invincible Amber, an inspiration to us all.
@AmberIsAQT
I told my psychologist today that I, again, woke up with unspecified dread and she blew my mind with her response…
“Let’s see if we can specify some of that dread.”
Whoaaaa.
#bipolarclub
I have a massive love hate relationship with seroquel, but goddamn…I felt so ill yesterday and 50mg completely snapped me out, and I’m actually enjoying life today. No ideations or intrusive thoughts in sight. Fascinating.
#bipolarclub
Hey, lovely humans. I need to stay off Twitter for a while longer. I am okay, I just am going through a major transition phase right now so I need to hide for a while. Love to all of you. Thank you for your support. 🧡
Why is bipolar being used to describe weather annoying? It trivializes the illness. It’s flippant. It feels like “oh my god the weather is mentally ill, how obnoxious.” It’s a complaint. “Bipolar weather” isn’t something anyone enjoys.
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I have spent most of the day sobbing and I would like to not be sobbing. I am very uncomfortable sharing that I am doing said sobbing so hooray, win for me, I stepped out of my comfort zone both with this emotional purge and disclosing it.
#bipolarclub
Hey
#bipolarclub
! How many of you struggle with eating disorders or disordered eating? Do you have a “healthy relationship” with food? I binge/restrict. I have had to work with a dietician to begin to change this. I’d love to hear about your story.
#Illinoismarijuana
Congratulations to us, Illinois! I’m especially excited for the 11,000 police records that have been expunged due to marijuana offenses. I hope the rest of the country moves toward this positive change. Love to all!
Psychiatrist: “So, are you irritated that all these paths are being presented to you or are you radically accepting it?”
Me: “BOTH.”
I won at DBT today. Threw it right in the doc’s face. Yay.
#bipolarclub
#DBTclub
@evahayesxo
Hello; I have
#bipolardisorder
. Please don’t conflate being bipolar with being a control freak or abusive. It perpetuates stigma for those of us living with the illness. Your statement suggests having a relationship with a
#bipolar
person is dangerous. 1/
I’ve decided I don’t care if I’m hypomanic or happy. Maybe happy and hypomania are just the same and it doesn’t matter. Mania…that’s a problem…I feel this is okay. That doesn’t mean it is for everyone. But I think I’ll take it for myself.
#bipolarclub
My mom yelled at me when I started crying on FaceTime yesterday. “OH COME ON! I DON’T KNOW HOW TO HELP YOU!” That’s what she said. It was reminder to stay away. I’d forgotten. I have to remember to stay away from my family. It was easier an ocean away.
🧡The weekend was hard, AND I did a lot of good things….🧡
🛁Bathed
🧺Did a load of laundry
👯Visited friends
🚙Renewed driver’s license and bought car
#bipolarclub
Am I depressed because I’m dissociated. Am I dissociated because I’m depressed. Perhaps I am one or the other and I can’t distinguish the difference.
#bipolarclub