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I was originally diagnosed as having depression and was put on antidepressants which worked great for a while, I actually felt very happy until one day out of nowhere I started hearing voices and eventually went manic. After that I was diagnosed bipolar and taken off antidepressants. Now I...

Hello everyone, my doctor recently told me to try taking fish oil to help with my depression. I was wondering if anyone has used it and it worked for you. Doctor says I can't take antidepressant because it can make me go manic.

Recently I was talking with a family member who said to me that there is nothing wrong with me and I need to stop taking my medicine and quit seeing my psychologyst. This person said that my doctor is just telling me i'm sick so he can keep making money off of me but in reality there is nothing...

This has been going on for a couple of years, but only recently has it become worse. It was happening before the "church dilemma". My co-worker tells me it could be early signs of Parkinson's disease. When I spoke with my doctor he wasn't concerned he thinks it's the medication. He doesn't...

So for a while now I have felt very tired and fatigued and also my hands shake whenever I try to do work. For example my hands will shake when I'm trying to use a screwdriver making it very difficult to make contact with the screw head and tighten the screw, this affects my work. It seems that I...

Divorce, that does sound harsh. I'm not saying my wife and I don't have a good marriage, we get along great but disagree on religion matters. She's a great mother to our children too. It seems to me that divorce would make things worse, then she would get the house and kids and I would be stuck...

Thank you for your prayers, I wish my wife would see how this church has hurt me but she doesnt listen because they tell her I'm "in sin" and so she shouldn't listen to what I say. From her point of view I am no longer a "true christian" and so she believes my words are from "satan trying to...

I was disfellowshipped by one of the bible study group leaders. He believed that there is no such thing as mental illness therefore I was in sin. Taking meds was sinful because it showed my lack of faith in God. The pastor claims he knew nothing about this which I find hard to believe. Many...

I have posted before that I was disfellowshipped from church several years ago due to bipolar disorder. Now the pastor is sayin that the church has changed and it's ok to come back. I fear getting hurt again and don't think I should return. My wife has already started to attend again and...

Ok saw my doctor he still doesn't want to put me on lithium. Instead he increase my Depakote to 7.5 mg. he told me if this doesn't work then he will try lithium. I hope it works. So far I experience no difference. He says lithium require a lot of close monitoring so it's best to leave it as...

I take my medication religiosly and without skipping a dose. I take lamictal and depakote. I think that they just stopped working. I will ask my doctor about lithium, I seem to recall him saying he wanted to only use lithium as a last resort. I also suspect that the seizure I had or the...

I was feelig like I finally got a grip on this bipolar illness, my wife recently had a new baby and I was feeling happy, confident and on top of the world. I thoght I finally beat this thing. But then a week later I started to get deeply frustrated and angry at myself for all the times in the...

So now one of them says they talked to my old pastor who says its ok to come back to church now, makes me feel like a child who got punished and sent to his room then the parent says its ok to come out now. Why do they punish you like that? Makes me not want to have anything to do with church...

For the most part they don't actually talk to me on facebook, they just post pictures of their kids and that sort of thing. A couple have asked why I'm not at church and when I tell them I was disfellowshipped because I'm bipolar they just said "sorry to hear that" but that's about as far as...

I was diagnosed bipolar around 8 years ago before that time I had lots of friends and was in a church where people liked me. After my diagnosis people started to keep their distance and I was disfellowshipped from church. Now years later some of these people want to be my Facebook friends but...

Just wondering what people think about bipolar people being parents. Is it possible to be a good parent when you suffer from bipolar. I worry about what could happen if I had a manic episode around my kids. If I'm having hallucinations could they get hurt? I also worry the government might...

There was another person I know from my old church who is bipolar she told me a story about how she was also constantly being told to "repent of her sin" She told me that she started to pray that the person who kept telling her this would understand. That other person then developed post partum...

My wife and I met at church, I was married for several years before I ever had any psychotic or manic episode and did not know I was bipolar. One day I had a seizure and shortly after that I started having psychotic and manic episodes for the first time ever, then diagnosed bipolar. We both had...

In my line of work people are of the rough and tough vulgar mentality for the most part I find that christianity is looked down upon as a sign of weakness and depression or bipolar as a sign of an even weaker person. So I tend to be looked down on. I notice this type of behaviour from the...