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prenchpolar · 1 year

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we need more bipolar success stories. because all you hear about are the ones who died, or had breakdowns, or struggle every day.

it will be okay. it can be okay. i'm bipolar, and i'm doing well. i'm medicated, i'm stable, i'm happy, i'm living my life. things will be okay.

#mental illness #mentalheathawareness #actually bipolar #mentally fucked #bipolar 2 #bipolar disorder #mental problems #actuallybipolar #bipolar ii #manic depressive #manic pixie nightmare #manic bipolar #actually manic

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marshmallowwitharubberband · 1 year

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Enough with the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, make way for the Manic Gremlin Nightmare Disaster-Bi.

#which is me #hi #i'm the problem #actually manic #manic pixie dream girl #tropes #chaos gremlin #adhd problems #disaster bi energy #queer and weird #adhd #dating #waifu #husbando #why-fu

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unknowinglydeceasedlol · 3 months

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idk who needs to hear this but you *can* relate to someone’s struggles with a specific disorder without having said disorders

it’s honestly one of my biggest frustrations when you’re venting about a disorder you have or see people talking about it online and then you see people chime in “omg I didn’t think I had this but I relate to this so I have it!” and i don’t mean those people who have genuine concerns about having a specific disorder. (fyi, if you have genuine concerns regarding a specific disorder you may have, this isn’t about you!! it’s perfectly valid to stumble upon a disorder you didn’t know existed that explains your situation perfectly and have questions about it <3)

i’ll use this as an example but if someone is currently struggling through cancer and they vent to you about extreme exhaustion and fatigue, most people wouldn’t be like “omg I feel exhausted and fatigued too!! i must have cancer!” but would probably say something along the lines of “ive struggled through exhaustion and fatigue myself due to other reasons so i can understand what you’re going through and how you feel.” it’s okay to have questions about disorders and want to know more to maybe better situations you’re going through/ are in but just seeing one thing you relate to and claiming a whole disorder because of it can be very damaging to the people who have said disorders.

as someone with a cluster b personality disorder, there’s already so much stigma around them and that’s excluding all my other disorders/ problems. i’ve seen people who have no idea what BPD is, relate to a small portion of it, claim it as something they have with no research into it or professional advice, and then unknowingly play into stereotypes or spread more stigma about it. there’s so much more to a disorder than one or two things you see someone posting about. there’s also a lot of other things someone could have that also change how disorders present themselves in different people.

a person can have disorder A and vent about it but what you don’t know is that they also have disorder B, C, D, and E. although their main post is about disorder A, disorder C, D and E can also be big factors in it without you knowing. you might be relating more to the disorder C and E aspect of it over the “main” disorder A part of it than you really realize.

the purpose of me saying all this is not to be hateful, “gatekeep”, discourage people who genuinely have concerns, want to participate in genuine conversations about these topics, or for any other malicious reason. im just coming at this as a person to who’s genuinely really exhausted. it’s already so hard living with certain disorders and then you see people online who glorify, romanticize, or even fetishize certain disorders while cause harm to those people who genuinely suffer from it.

i stumbled upon someone’s post on a different platform and her whole shtick was “i have BPD but I’m uber normal abt it and not bat shit insane like literally everyone else who has it + having FPs is totally amazing and not super draining and exhausting” and it was honestly heartbreaking. her whole reasoning for having bpd was that she got obsessive over people she was in love with so therefore it was her FPs and got depressed if they didn’t spend time with her.

if you’re genuinely curious and have real concerns, please do your hardest to research it and/ or seek professional advice if possible. don’t put others who have the disorder down when they don’t meet or work with your agenda. thank you.

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everyone-is-emptyy · 11 months

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that-bipolar-mood · 1 year

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Being medicated doesn't mean becoming normal.

There's this trope I've seen in media, mentally ill that take meds and suddenly become neurotypical. To me this was a harmful fantasy, thinking that medicine means cure, and a fast one.

The reality of meds is often disappointing. You still find your limitations and differences. Lots of underground symptoms and sensitivities don't ever vanish.

Being bipolar myself it often left me perplexed, the fact that I was receiving correct treatment, but still struggled. Not with acute episodes, just a baby version of previous symptoms.

I'm trying to accept bipolar as my personal disability. I figured that medicine is my support, like a cane could be for those with physical disabilities. It means I'm still not like the rest and I will always struggle, but man is it nice to have some help...

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meulia · 3 months

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if you’ve ever said something along the lines of “psychosis only makes you do things you already want to do” you owe every psychotic person $200

#like what do y’all think psychosis is?#actually psychotic #actually manic #actually mentally ill #actually bipolar #psychosis memes #bipolar memes #self

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transvegansurvivor · 2 years

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Just a note about psychiatric hospital stays.

I think people who haven’t ever been before often misunderstand the purpose of a psychiatric hospital stay. I think people tend to think it is a place to go to get treatment, but it isn’t.

Psychiatric hospital stays have one purpose--stabilization. They are not meant to provide long term treatment. They are meant for people in an acute crisis situation who cannot be safe on their own. They will keep you there only long enough to get you out of that crisis.

If you are looking for long term treatment and think you need a higher level of care than individual or group outpatient therapy, what you want to look for is Residential treatment.

Inpatient (psych hospital) stays are usually between 3 and 14 days long at most. Residential stays are usually months long. Inpatient may or may not offer group therapy sessions. Residential will give you group therapy, process groups, individual therapy, psychiatry, and maybe more (like equine or art therapy).

There are also other levels of care, such as partial hospitalization (PHP--think day program) and intensive outpatient (IOP--think lots of group therapy).

Psych hospitals serve a very specific purpose and (although your milage may vary) are somewhat good at that one thing--keeping you physically safe in a time of crisis. But if you want actual treatment, you are probably not going to get it there.

If you are in crisis and cannot keep yourself safe, by all means go to the ER! But if you are just desperate for longer term treatment that will help you get your life together and feel better long term, look into residential, PHP, or IOP.

Good luck! Stay safe!

#psych ward #Psych Hospital #php #iop #residential #mental health treatment #treatment #actually traumatized #actually abused #actuallydepressed #actually anxiety #actuallybipolar #actuallymentallyill #actually bpd #actually borderline #actually ocd #actually manic #actually psychotic #actually ptsd

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lumberjackloverboy-moved · 1 year

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shout out to psychotic people who choose not to be on antipsychotics and medication, who are happy without meds, who struggle but know what they do and don’t want in their bodies, who approach life without medication. you are not delusional for knowing you can succeed without them, you are not stupid or naive or selfish. you have every right to your brain and body and no one else gets to decide what meds you take but you

#mental illness positivity #actually psychotic #actually schizophrenic #actually manic #actually mentally ill #mental health positivity #medication

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reidiot · 9 months

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the urge to rearrange my room, read 17 books, write 50 poems and finish a 15-season series at 3am it's unmatched

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bpdcrybaby213 · 1 year

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Instead of fighting my brain or panicking, I just accept that I'm manic. I accept my mood changes. But there's nothing I can do. I'm just riding the rollercoaster, man. Sometimes I hold on for dear life.

#actually manic #manic episode #manic bipolar #borderline personality disorder #living with bpd #bpd life #bpd stuff #bpd things #bpd thoughts #actually bpd #bpd problems #mental illness #mood disorder

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prenchpolar · 11 months

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maybe i'm hot and smart and interesting or maybe i'm manic. i'm probably manic. yeah, actually, i'm manic

#mental illness #mental problems #actually bipolar #bipolar 2 #bipolar disorder #actuallybipolar #bipolar ii #actually manic #bipolar mania #manic depressive #mania

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sparklev0id · 5 months

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leveling up my mental illness points by inadvertently turning my BP2 into BP1

#they dont tell u that being on mood stabilizers for a while apparently makes your unmedicated state Worse!#its always 'are you okay you were being extra weird for a minute there' 'i could tell you were off your meds'#and never 'how was the mania? was it fun? were the delusions fun?'#actually bipolar #actually manic #actually psychotic #< thats a new one :)

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