Hello

[lisa1980]

Hi im lisa and ive just found out my dp has been suffering bi-polar depression for 5 years and looking for advice on how i can cope with it

[suzi]

Hi there lisa!
Welcome to the group. You are in the right place!
Is he on medication?

[darwins_reject]

silly question, but has anyone explained to you what bi-polar is?

[lisa1980]

Hi there lisa!
Welcome to the group. You are in the right place!
Is he on medication?



He was to begin suzi with but he now wont take any says he will do it in his own way and sometimes even denying he's even got it. No darwins reject but it explains a lot of his personailty i experienced the highs for a long time and ive just gone though the lows but im not sure how it really affects him

[darwins_reject]

the reason i asked is that many people hear bi-polar and the names seems to make people think "split personality" etc, as im sure you know bi-polar is the correct name for manic depression. and for some strange reason people also seem to think that manic depression just means serious deppression, again this isnt true. bi-polar has all the same symptums as depression, but with a few added issues, imagine depression has a scale 0 to -10, 0 being normal, and -10 being at the point of breakdown, well bi-polar has the same scale but it goes +10 to 0 to -10) +10 being manic, the total oppersite of a breakdown. almost a high

a large amount of people who suffer with bi-polar also have large debt problems, because when they are feeling low, they spend money to cheer themselfs up, and this is normal. but then if they go downhill a bit too much, they will spend more and get into a small amount of debt, this will bring them up, but when the bills come in, they crash down lower, it becomes a visicous cycle, of swinging from + to -

sorry Lisa if im telling you things you already know, but i thought i would start from the basics, for anyone who may read this

one of the other issues of bi-polar is the treatment, when i worked in mental health a few years ago, one of the biggest problems was how to treat someone? it used to be a case of using a combination of drugs, anti-d's, mood stablisers and a group of drugs (that i forget the name of) that act like seditives. im sure things have changed by now on the meds front.

is there anything you want to know about?

[lisa1980]

the reason i asked is that many people hear bi-polar and the names seems to make people think "split personality" etc, as im sure you know bi-polar is the correct name for manic depression. and for some strange reason people also seem to think that manic depression just means serious deppression, again this isnt true. bi-polar has all the same symptums as depression, but with a few added issues, imagine depression has a scale 0 to -10, 0 being normal, and -10 being at the point of breakdown, well bi-polar has the same scale but it goes +10 to 0 to -10) +10 being manic, the total oppersite of a breakdown. almost a high

a large amount of people who suffer with bi-polar also have large debt problems, because when they are feeling low, they spend money to cheer themselfs up, and this is normal. but then if they go downhill a bit too much, they will spend more and get into a small amount of debt, this will bring them up, but when the bills come in, they crash down lower, it becomes a visicous cycle, of swinging from + to -

sorry Lisa if im telling you things you already know, but i thought i would start from the basics, for anyone who may read this

one of the other issues of bi-polar is the treatment, when i worked in mental health a few years ago, one of the biggest problems was how to treat someone? it used to be a case of using a combination of drugs, anti-d's, mood stablisers and a group of drugs (that i forget the name of) that act like seditives. im sure things have changed by now on the meds front.

is there anything you want to know about?


He has the majority of the time ive been with him been on a high he spends a lot and says he has not much debt but i have a feeling he might not be telling me all he doesnt think twice about going and spending a lot of money, he has so much energy and wants to do lots of things at once he has a very high sex drive and i mean VERY HIGH he has been low recently feeling lonley, being upset, he's felt suicidal in the past feels worthless and all that im just not sure how to help him with it

[lizzie]

Hiya lisa

[suzi]

lisa can i ask you something...

I was speaking to a good friend of mine whose wife has something like bi polar, BUT she has never been diagnosed officially... so it is more like the "mania" is "normal" but the depression is very very low..
has your oh been diagnosed officially???