Hi, I sent you a private message. I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1991. Its quite managable with the right medication.
There is still such a stigma with it. Really sad.
It does run in families. Once I dug deep enough, I found which side of the family it comes from. When elders say "she was in a mental institution for a nervous breakdown" thats the side it come from, lol. They called them "nervous breakdowns" many years back.
I do quite well on medication. My medication keeps my "brain" in tune and has since 1991.
Please read your pm's as I sent you a link to a great website there. You get a lot of support there, and learn a lot too.
Good luck with this. As that first year or so can really be rough trying to learn all we can about it. The more you learn, the better equipped you will be to fight it. |