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@grecy095 It was so long ago…I remember being scared but I think I wanted to impress the boys since they were both quite a bit older than me. I wanted to be thought of as brave and not be thought of as a scared girl. I even skinned my knee when I landed and didn’t even wince. I was a bit of a rough and tumble girl – I didn’t mind getting dirty. Around age 10 I started climbing trees and would climb 10 and 12 feet up easily. Scared my mom silly.
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Right now I’d go back to Tuesday night and not put myself in the hospital. It turned out to be such an upsetting experienced, I’m still recovering for it.
I’d also go back to the day my dad died and not go to work that day so I could be there and try to save him. |
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I just joined the other day and have been blogging about some personal stuff. It falls under health related but it deals with my personal experience with mental illness, some of it my recent experiences with some not so good treatment when I went to seek help at the hospital. |
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Today I have spent most of the day on here, except for a few hours when I took a nap. I can see myself doing this most weekends. I can also see myself spending most of my evenings on here. I’m going to become addicted. |
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I got my biggest one accomplished already, which was write a complaint letter to a local hospital that I needed to take care of. Other than that, its just write on here and another site. |
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Congrats on the baby! Is it a girl or a boy? My friend is having a little girl in September, I get to be the god mother 🙂 |
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I’m glad your brother got some help. It usually doesn’t matter if there is a history of mental illness in the family, someone can still develop one. It sounds like an environmental factor triggered his. |
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I’m Lola and I created this forum for us to get together and talk all thing mental health. I’ve been dealing with bipolar disorder, severe anxiety, and borderline personality disorder since I was 26 but was first diagnosed with depression at age 13. I actually was just discharged from the hospital yesterday after a short stay to get my anxiety under control. Right now I’m not able to hold down a job due to how severe my issues are, but I do volunteer at a mental health consumer group. We do a lot to help other consumers and fight mental illness stigma. I’m just like any other person, I just have a few special needs that you don’t even realize unless you know me quite well. |
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I received it also. Just ignore it and delete it. Spammers are going to sneak in occasionally. |
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I love the fun fact! |
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When I was about 8, I was playing at a baseball field with two boys. We live in an area that floods and it had recently flooded and the water had just receded. We’d climbed on top of one of the baseball dugouts and the challenge was to jump off. I was the youngest by 3 years so no one expected me to do it. The oldest boy took a flying leap off and dared me to follow. Me, in my little pink bowed sandals, took a running jump off right after him! The other boy was too scared to run and sat down on the edge then dropped off. That night I was officially the coolest kid ever to some young teenage boys. |
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I haven’t yet. I am sure I can do it though. I will just have to keep logging in and working hard at it. |
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That is pretty darn cool. Always good to know that hard work is appreciated. |
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I actually have to have typical therapy, the kind where you go and sit with a trained professional and talk about your issues, to help with my stress. Other than that, I’d say driving with music on is my stress relief therapy. |
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Mood swings are the biggest part of bipolar disorder. You have periods of depression and mania. Mania can be periods of increase energy, decreased need for sleep, grandiose ideas (thinking you’re above everyone else, have special powers, things like that). People think that mania is fun and sometimes it is at first…but then you get agitated and the fun wears off. A lot of people who get manic end up in fights, arguments, or trouble with the law. Many people with bipolar disorder need to be on more than one medication to manage their symptoms. |
