Comments for Bipolar Blog http://finkshrink.com/blog Information and support Mon, 12 May 2008 06:19:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on Post a Question by Can My Bipolar Medications Be Increasing My Anxiety? http://finkshrink.com/blog/post-a-question#comment-993 Can My Bipolar Medications Be Increasing My Anxiety? Sun, 11 May 2008 19:38:18 +0000 http://finkshrink.com/blog/post-a-question#comment-993 [...] you have a question about bipolar disorder, please post it on our Bipolar Blog Post a Question page. I cannot guarantee that I will answer every question, but your questions will help me [...] […] you have a question about bipolar disorder, please post it on our Bipolar Blog Post a Question page. I cannot guarantee that I will answer every question, but your questions will help me […]

]]> Comment on Share Your Bipolar Story by George http://finkshrink.com/blog/bipolar-stories-and-insights#comment-991 George Sun, 11 May 2008 18:26:51 +0000 http://finkshrink.com/blog/bipolar-stories-and-insights#comment-991 The Unhealable Disease To lay in sorrow today, tomorrow To want in your mind, yet feel in your heart That there is a life, but it is not yours The Unhealable dream of being your part That your soul is a toy, never filled with joy Hot iron to the feelings, unmitigated hate Left on the brink of the life ending days Not one considerate note only a calendar date Longing with love returned not ever fret Destroyer of love and bringer of regret Who be these ghosts of times long past Why did the window of time opaque so fast Death is it the savior or only the wait Is there left to be any happy or just hollow words Alone in the dark, scared to move either way Forward or backwards is either progress, or to late None can help for the sorrow of time gone Never shall it come back to see or change one time Drugs are easy to come and though not heal For no drug can change death or what it feels Unhealable are memories Unhealable are eyes Unhealable the darkness Unhealable is despise The Unhealable Disease

To lay in sorrow today, tomorrow
To want in your mind, yet feel in your heart
That there is a life, but it is not yours
The Unhealable dream of being your part

That your soul is a toy, never filled with joy
Hot iron to the feelings, unmitigated hate
Left on the brink of the life ending days
Not one considerate note only a calendar date

Longing with love returned not ever fret
Destroyer of love and bringer of regret
Who be these ghosts of times long past
Why did the window of time opaque so fast

Death is it the savior or only the wait
Is there left to be any happy or just hollow words
Alone in the dark, scared to move either way
Forward or backwards is either progress, or to late

None can help for the sorrow of time gone
Never shall it come back to see or change one time
Drugs are easy to come and though not heal
For no drug can change death or what it feels

Unhealable are memories
Unhealable are eyes
Unhealable the darkness
Unhealable is despise

]]> Comment on Strategies for Treating Bipolar Depression by Ed Renehan http://finkshrink.com/blog/treatment/treating-bipolar-depression-%e2%80%93-a-challenge-for-patients-and-doctors.html#comment-976 Ed Renehan Sun, 11 May 2008 04:02:27 +0000 http://finkshrink.com/blog/treatment/treating-bipolar-depression-%e2%80%93-a-challenge-for-patients-and-doctors.html#comment-976 I am getting a great deal out of this blog. Thank you. I am getting a great deal out of this blog. Thank you.

]]> Comment on Beware of Diagnosis by Prescription by Bipolar Blog | Bipolar Disorder For Dummies | Depression | Treating Bipolar Depression http://finkshrink.com/blog/medications/beware-of-diagnosis-by-prescription.html#comment-912 Bipolar Blog | Bipolar Disorder For Dummies | Depression | Treating Bipolar Depression Thu, 08 May 2008 12:14:28 +0000 http://finkshrink.com/blog/medications/beware-of-diagnosis-by-prescription.html#comment-912 [...] only depression who may also be at risk for bipolar disorder. (For more about diagnosis, see “Beware of Diagnosis by Prescription” and our Sample Chapter from Bipolar Disorder For Dummies, “Getting a Psychiatric [...] […] only depression who may also be at risk for bipolar disorder. (For more about diagnosis, see “Beware of Diagnosis by Prescription” and our Sample Chapter from Bipolar Disorder For Dummies, “Getting a Psychiatric […]

]]> Comment on A Wife’s Story by Patricia http://finkshrink.com/blog/bipolar-stories-and-insights/a-wifes-story#comment-895 Patricia Wed, 07 May 2008 19:44:38 +0000 http://finkshrink.com/blog/bipolar-stories-and-insights/a-wifes-story#comment-895 We have many things in common. Many of the things you have mentioned in your relationship mirror much of my own. I am also 34 married to a man who is bi-polar. We have no children and don't plan on having them in the future. Getting through the day with him at this point is difficult enough. My husband is not currently in treatment and really doesn't plan on returning. I don't know what that means for our relationship. Feel free to email me I think there is a lot of information we can offer each other. parissha@gmail.com We have many things in common. Many of the things you have mentioned in your relationship mirror much of my own. I am also 34 married to a man who is bi-polar. We have no children and don’t plan on having them in the future. Getting through the day with him at this point is difficult enough.

My husband is not currently in treatment and really doesn’t plan on returning. I don’t know what that means for our relationship.

Feel free to email me I think there is a lot of information we can offer each other. parissha@gmail.com

]]> Comment on Book Review of Madness: A Bipolar Life by Cecie http://finkshrink.com/blog/bipolar-books/book-review-of-madness-a-bipolar-life.html#comment-849 Cecie Mon, 05 May 2008 22:01:23 +0000 http://finkshrink.com/blog/bipolar-books/book-review-of-madness-a-bipolar-life.html#comment-849 In her latest book, <em>Madness: A Bipolar Life</em>, Marya Hornbacher is surprisingly able to describe in amazing detail almost her entire life despite frequent lapses into abysmal depression opposed to periods of over-achiever super success, which would invariably spiral upward into full-blown psychotic manias. Anyone familiar with bipolar illness will recognize the repeated roller-coaster cycling and the difficulty in finding and maintaining a stabilizing medicine combination. <em>Madness</em> is difficult to put down. As you turn the pages to find that one day she is a successful, wealthy, on-top-of-the-world, happily married editor, and the next a miserable, shuffling, robe-wearing, stringy-haired patient in a mental institution with little or no grasp of reality... though, all the while, you know she is very real. You can never doubt the authenticity of the person behind the sometimes audacious and sometimes pitiful behavior. Somehow, through all of it, she hangs onto a thread, and with that thread, she is able to weave an incredible life. In <em>Madness</em> Marya retrieves it all well enough to share her story with the world. I, for one, am grateful that she did. In her latest book, Madness: A Bipolar Life, Marya Hornbacher is surprisingly able to describe in amazing detail almost her entire life despite frequent lapses into abysmal depression opposed to periods of over-achiever super success, which would invariably spiral upward into full-blown psychotic manias.

Anyone familiar with bipolar illness will recognize the repeated roller-coaster cycling and the difficulty in finding and maintaining a stabilizing medicine combination.

Madness is difficult to put down. As you turn the pages to find that one day she is a successful, wealthy, on-top-of-the-world, happily married editor, and the next a miserable, shuffling, robe-wearing, stringy-haired patient in a mental institution with little or no grasp of reality… though, all the while, you know she is very real. You can never doubt the authenticity of the person behind the sometimes audacious and sometimes pitiful behavior.

Somehow, through all of it, she hangs onto a thread, and with that thread, she is able to weave an incredible life. In Madness Marya retrieves it all well enough to share her story with the world.

I, for one, am grateful that she did.

]]> Comment on Jill Ravitz by JoJo http://finkshrink.com/blog/bipolar-stories-and-insights/jill-ravitz#comment-842 JoJo Mon, 05 May 2008 16:14:16 +0000 http://finkshrink.com/blog/bipolar-stories-and-insights/jill-ravitz#comment-842 Sounds like you're going through a hard time. Was your marriage stable before you were in your manic phase? Perhaps you weren't happy in the marriage to begin with, so it would have ended anyway. One day you too will have someone to share your life with if you want. Also, perhaps you can find other ways to feel good about yourself instead of focusing on the clothes you wear to work. I wish you the best of luck. I've been there too, but realized I can't blame all my problems on the disease. Sounds like you’re going through a hard time. Was your marriage stable before you were in your manic phase? Perhaps you weren’t happy in the marriage to begin with, so it would have ended anyway. One day you too will have someone to share your life with if you want. Also, perhaps you can find other ways to feel good about yourself instead of focusing on the clothes you wear to work. I wish you the best of luck. I’ve been there too, but realized I can’t blame all my problems on the disease.

]]> Comment on Post a Question by Susan http://finkshrink.com/blog/post-a-question#comment-827 Susan Mon, 05 May 2008 00:28:08 +0000 http://finkshrink.com/blog/post-a-question#comment-827 Okay, my neighbor has no family left anymore, I have tried to help but I can't be the nurse or doormat anymore. She has had all the drugs, rehab, pscychiatrists(many...all with a different drug) Where can these people go for help when there is no one to take care of them anymore? Okay, my neighbor has no family left anymore, I have tried to help but I can’t be the nurse or doormat anymore. She has had all the drugs, rehab, pscychiatrists(many…all with a different drug) Where can these people go for help when there is no one to take care of them anymore?

]]> Comment on Should I Go or Should I Stay? by Joe http://finkshrink.com/blog/children/should-i-go-or-should-i-stay.html#comment-777 Joe Fri, 02 May 2008 22:45:29 +0000 http://finkshrink.com/blog/children/should-i-go-or-should-i-stay.html#comment-777 Anyone who found this post interesting may also want to read the post in Bipolar Stories called "<a href="http://finkshrink.com/blog/bipolar-stories-and-insights/a-wifes-story" rel="nofollow">A Wife's Story</a>." Anyone who found this post interesting may also want to read the post in Bipolar Stories called “A Wife’s Story.”

]]> Comment on Bipolar Disorder Overdiagnosed in Children? by Bipolar Blog | Bipolar Disorder For Dummies | Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis http://finkshrink.com/blog/children/bipolar-disorder-overdiagnosed-in-children.html#comment-769 Bipolar Blog | Bipolar Disorder For Dummies | Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis Fri, 02 May 2008 19:41:07 +0000 http://finkshrink.com/blog/children/bipolar-disorder-overdiagnosed-in-children.html#comment-769 [...] see as the potential problems posed by over-diagnosing bipolar in children, as I discuss in “Bipolar Disorder Overdiagnosed in Children?“) “Dr. Biederman’s stance is we diagnose young, so we can fix it early,” [...] […] see as the potential problems posed by over-diagnosing bipolar in children, as I discuss in “Bipolar Disorder Overdiagnosed in Children?“) “Dr. Biederman’s stance is we diagnose young, so we can fix it early,” […]

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