Archive for the ‘Bipolar Disorder’ Category

Blogathon – sponsorship open til Friday

July 28, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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I’m all recovered from the Blogathon now, having got lots of lovely sleep Sunday night!  I’m delighted to report that my sponsorship total is approximately £71 (I’ve been sponsored in pounds, euros and dollars, variously) – so far, that is.  Because yes, it’s still possible to sponsor me – pledges are staying open on the [...]

48: Q&A – Experiences with diagnosis

July 26, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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lunamorgan asked “What was diagnosis like? How did you get it all sorted, because from what I’ve heard, it’s really hard to get a proper diagnosis of bipolar, what with most people not seeing doctors during manic phases.”
There were stages to my diagnosis, and it probably didn’t help that I moved from Beverley into Hull [...]

46: A bit more on “normality”

July 26, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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Following on from my last post, I thought I’d just write a quick one (I hope!) covering what’s “normal” and not when you have bipolar.  In my experience, that is.
As I said before, “normal” is when you can function.  But in a way, that’s a reasonably wide definition of normal, and you could be in [...]

45: Q&A – How do we know what’s “normal” and what’s not?

July 26, 2009 by Lou · 2 Comments
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Ptyx asked me: How do we know what’s “normal” and what’s not?
Before I got started answering that, I thought I’d better make sure I understood what she was asking, since there were a couple of different ways I can see to come at it (How do I know when I’m “normal” instead of in the [...]

43: The Elevenses Post

July 26, 2009 by Lou · 2 Comments
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Which means that I’m not only one post behind.  Hooray!  Unfortunately, I can’t think of anything to say for this one.  How’s everyone else getting on?  I was really sorry to see that Renee had needed to get some sleep, but I completely understand why – I was beginning to worry if I might have [...]

41: A knitty post

July 26, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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Since I don’t think I actually posted here when I finally finished Mum’s birthday shawl, I shall do so now!  I was almost a year late giving it to her in the end, so instead of it being finished for her birthday in April 08, it was finished for Mother’s Day in February 09.  The [...]

36: Meditation

July 26, 2009 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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I’ve just been thinking that maybe I should go and do some meditation to relax my back muscles and refresh my brain a little… and it’s occurred to me that I could also make a quick post about the subject as well!
Until about a year ago, I was very sceptical about both meditation and hypnosis [...]

22: Other Bloggers for Bipolar

July 26, 2009 by Lou · 3 Comments
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I’m not the only person to be blogging for and about bipolar during the Blogathon.  There are more people blogging for other mental health issues too.  I’ve already linked to a couple, but I’m going to do so again because you should visit them, and sponsor them if you can:

Cia at crazed and infused is [...]

19: Friends and Family: It’s Not Just All About Me

July 25, 2009 by Lou · 3 Comments
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Finally, my first ‘proper’ post on a bipolar related topic!  I’ve taken way too long over writing this… I need to speed up for the others!  I’ve chosen this one to start with because it got the highest number of votes in my poll – so really I didn’t choose it at all.  I’m not [...]

14: A recommendation

July 25, 2009 by Lou · 2 Comments
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While I’m eating my dinner, can I just point you in the direction of an excellent post that Cia made about ‘normality’.  I’ve been asked a question about this by Ptyx, and I’ll give a bit of my own take shortly.  But I think that Cia says it so much better than I can – [...]

2: A short history of me

July 25, 2009 by Lou · 2 Comments
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Before I start talking about the various bipolar related topics, I just wanted to give a summary of my “qualifications”.  An outline of my experience with the illness.  Something like that.
I was diagnosed with bipolar in June 2002, but I didn’t really accept the diagnosis until some time in 2003 – I didn’t want to [...]

Topics for the Blogathon / Q&A

July 23, 2009 by Lou · 4 Comments
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As I said yesterday, one of the things I’m planning to do during the Blogathon is to talk about some of my experiences with being bipolar, and I was hoping that people would ask me any questions they have about the subject so that I could have a go at answering and maybe make some [...]

Blogathon 2009

July 23, 2009 by Lou · 1 Comment
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So, rather later than I’d originally intended (July, where did you go?!), I have signed up for this year’s Blogathon.  Which is this coming Saturday and Sunday, 25th-26th July.  What does that actually mean?  Well, I’ll be blogging an entry every half hour (or thereabouts) for 24 hours, starting from 2pm Saturday.  It’s for charity, [...]

Passing post

December 22, 2008 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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Can’t spend long at the computer, because I need to be sitting with my feet elevated. D’oh. Still, I’m to stop taking the new meds, so hopefully I’ll be back to normal (ahem) soon. I am quite pleased with myself that I’m managing to keep this BloPoMo thing going, though. Even [...]

The amazing expanding feet :-/

December 21, 2008 by Lou · Leave a Comment
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It’s looking like I’m experiencing a side-effect from the new medication I started a couple of weeks ago: oedema. My feet and legs have swollen up, and I think my arms have a bit as well. My skin feels too tight. Oh yay fun. This happened to me a few years [...]

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