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Wandering me is still around, down but not quite out yet. I have less and less energy and feel more and more seperated from God and humanity. I know I'm going down again and hate the reality that this is so. Each morning the gray looks grayer and the gloom seems deeper. I'm settling into winter like normal it really stinks.

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Jeshu, It is wonderful to hear from you again! I have been wondering about you. i wasn't even thinking about it being winter for you as we are in spring which tends to be a "more up" time for me. Will keep yu in my prayers. i spent to many of my years in the gloom and gray. The colors will return and God has not left! Remeber that truth, the are no heights to hisgh or depths to low for God not to be there!!!! Praying for peace during the gray times and the return of color to your world. :prayer:
 
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So nice to hear from you! Please try to think of the nice things in your life. I truly don't want you to be missing out on daily life! I went like that for 2 years!. The worst part about it was that everybody let me, They just lived their lives and I just exsisted. I never want that to happen again so, I pray for you so hard everyday!!!!MAY GOD ALWAYS BE WITH YOU AND HOLD YOU CLOSE TO HIM!!!!
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Wandering me is still around, down but not quite out yet. I have less and less energy and feel more and more seperated from God and humanity. I know I'm going down again and hate the reality that this is so. Each morning the gray looks grayer and the gloom seems deeper. I'm settling into winter like normal it really stinks.

Best regards and blessings to all.
 
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Hi it is me again.
Thanks for caring all who cared.

I'm not really doing okay though, I'm a lot lower now than the last time I wrote. Going on this steady downhill slide I suppose.

Luckily suicide hasn't been much of an issue yet.

God bless you all.

Jeshu.
 
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Can you both get your meds adjusted or put on new meds? Please try and do something. At least when you are up call the hotline or your therapist or doctor. I do that when I feel like I'm going down faster and faster. Then I get in a arguement with the family becuase " I'm supposed to be better, not this again!!.
Oh well, PLease try to keep writing!
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Jeshu im sorry your struggling...:hug:.. ill pray for you.

Im not doing so great either, i spent a few days totally down and out but im trying to get myself back up...

hope everyone else is doing ok...

Sara
 
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Zita123 said:
Can you both get your meds adjusted or put on new meds? Please try and do something. At least when you are up call the hotline or your therapist or doctor. I do that when I feel like I'm going down faster and faster. Then I get in a arguement with the family becuase " I'm supposed to be better, not this again!!.
Oh well, PLease try to keep writing!
Hugs to you both!
GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS!!:hug:

Hey Zita. ((hugs))

my downs arent all because of my BP. I have other mental illnesses as well that make me very unstable...(don't feel comfotable psoting them here but ill tell you in pm if you wanna know.) ...but when im struggling to get them under contrrol and im in a down episode well its just so black and hard to get back out of. I didnt try and end everything this time tho. Thats a big achievment for me...ive actually made it 2 weeks without a serious attempt. That's a record. I just have so much im trying to deal with... it gets too hard sometimes. I've actually just had my meds adjusted when i was in the hospital this week. Hopefully this new dose will work better with all my other meds as well. Thanks for being so nice and caring.

((hugs))

Sara
 
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I'm in the process of adjusting my medication that is mainly because I sleep so much - 14-16 hours a day. My doctors are very nervous about adjusting medications though. Like they easily go up with the dosage but don't like going down all that much.
 
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I haven't been on the computer in days! I just sometimes don't feel like doing anything! OH well I'm here today!
Thnaks for this sight
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I'm in the process of adjusting my medication that is mainly because I sleep so much - 14-16 hours a day. My doctors are very nervous about adjusting medications though. Like they easily go up with the dosage but don't like going down all that much.
 
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Pardon the pun! Haven't felt up to writing these few days, sorry, Hopefully, I will happily be here tomorrow!!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!
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Hi Jennifer

I also struggle with bipolar haven't been around for a few days because I haven't been well. I hope that you find here what you are looking for.

Jeshu
 
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:D Hello, I am new to forums and am trying to learn how to use this site. I receive disability for Bi-polar from Social Security. For the last 11yrs I have been treated as an outpatient with medication and lots and lots of prayer. Praise God, He is faithful and his mercy endureth for ever.

My prayer is that each one of you in this thread will overcome by the joy of the Lord and the power of his might. God bless you all. :wave:
 
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Hey, your story sounds like mine :) You are welcome here! Join us and share in other threads!!!

Just signing in one last time before I am gone for 2 weeks. Keep me in your prayers for stable health while I am traveling overseas!!!!
 
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Just taking things one day at a time!!
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Hey, your story sounds like mine :) You are welcome here! Join us and share in other threads!!!

Just signing in one last time before I am gone for 2 weeks. Keep me in your prayers for stable health while I am traveling overseas!!!!
 
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Hey, your story sounds like mine :) You are welcome here! Join us and share in other threads!!!

Just signing in one last time before I am gone for 2 weeks. Keep me in your prayers for stable health while I am traveling overseas!!!!
:wave: :clap: :thumbsup:
May God richly bless your vacation time. All connections met on time, weather perfect, lots of laughs (Eph 3:14-20) Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and Be in HEALTH, even as thy soul (mind, will and emotions) prospereth." 3 Jn 2 :amen:
 
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Just popped into tell that I have been feeling much better lately. I've dropped my medication a little more and the result has been good. At least I'm not sleeping all the time (and still I hardly cycle). A lot of feelings are starting to come back again, yet nothing overdone as yet, just simple emotions that the medication suppressed within me I suppose. For the first time in months I can feel slightly optimistic about my future state of being or at least I'm not always pessimistic anymore.

I'm seeing my pdoc tomorrow I'm not sure how he will translate the change. Doctors easily prescribe but have a harder time letting go of medication. Yet I feel emotionally stable on the amount I'm on now I might drop it even a little more it depends on how sleepy I still get.

I've let them drug me out for two years now the results have been mixed. Mentally I'm doing great - much better than I did without medication - but physically not so good. I gained 40 kilo's in a year and started to get periods of drowishness and sleepiness which grew to me sleeping 15-17 hours a day.
Also the medication leaves me rather depressed and I can't seem to handle anti-depressants. Reduction or change are the only options that I see as reasonable.
 
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I have been going down hill recently. I just want to be by myself and read my Bible. It's like I can't put it down. I guess because I can finally understand it so much better now. I have an appnt to go back on anti deppressants. My bipolar meds work great but I'm slowly going down . I just hope the new meds will work. I don't and can't go back in seclution again. @ years of living in my cellar was enough!!
GOD BLESS TO ALL!!
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Jeshu said:
Just popped into tell that I have been feeling much better lately. I've dropped my medication a little more and the result has been good. At least I'm not sleeping all the time (and still I hardly cycle). A lot of feelings are starting to come back again, yet nothing overdone as yet, just simple emotions that the medication suppressed within me I suppose. For the first time in months I can feel slightly optimistic about my future state of being or at least I'm not always pessimistic anymore.

I'm seeing my pdoc tomorrow I'm not sure how he will translate the change. Doctors easily prescribe but have a harder time letting go of medication. Yet I feel emotionally stable on the amount I'm on now I might drop it even a little more it depends on how sleepy I still get.

I've let them drug me out for two years now the results have been mixed. Mentally I'm doing great - much better than I did without medication - but physically not so good. I gained 40 kilo's in a year and started to get periods of drowishness and sleepiness which grew to me sleeping 15-17 hours a day.
Also the medication leaves me rather depressed and I can't seem to handle anti-depressants. Reduction or change are the only options that I see as reasonable.
 
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