hi windsy.
I think I have things in my life at a more tolerable level now. Usually the stresses of the holidays and of the extras at work push me towards the hypomania ... but I am relatively - okay lets go all out and say it ! I am well right now. I am on a good cocktail and am being careful of the rest.
Not too long ago I was trying to figure out how to be comfortable living with a pile of symptomes. Lables helped me break down the symptomes into manageable groups of inter-related manifestations. So I could deal with one thing at a time. I had a bunch of coping and living to learn along the way
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The most important lession is that we have an illness. We live and deal with illnesses. We are not an illness. I have Bipolar Disorder, Not, I am Bipolar. And this is with any thing ...Not, I am Cancer, I have Cancer. Not I am Diabetis, I have or I am Diabetic. It means that I am a complete person and have a world or interests other than this illness that I have to live with like I have to live with Chocolate Brown hair. I can display or hide both at my discretion.
By the way how did the second opininon go? you were wondering if you met all the criteria for BIPO II and how meds were manitaining your stability. How was the doc... will you be back to your original pdoc? Did the 2nd give you any good insights?
How are you look at returning to work? especially with your discomforts? Will it get in the way of work?
you really do not have to answer my nosy questions you know. It is just me reading so much in the very compact cube of info you wrote. It is all so intriguing and with winter being mean I need to be stimulated a bit more ...
