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1. Boredom can make it difficult to be patient. If you're waiting in the doctor's office and the only thing you can concentrate on is the ticking clock, good luck trying to be patient. If, however, you can read a book or do a crossword puzzle, time will fly by.
2. Many people find that meditation and yoga helps patience.
3. Whenever you find yourself growing impatient, think about the positive effects of patience, and remember that impatience only makes things worse.
4. Instead of becoming annoyed by a distraction (such as a crying baby on a long flight), try just being a passive observer. Make it daily practice to observe things and events without judging or forming an opinion
5. Remember, for every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
6. One way to release stress is to write about it.
So slow down and enjoy life. Like they say, stop and smell the roses.

I hope this was of some help.View Thread
The right diagnosis and the right medications make all the difference in the world.
And for me ... thinking positively helped with the depression. I woke up each morning and counted my blessings. I also realized I had a bit of a "Seroquel hangover" so I drank my coffee and told myself I would feel better after I woke up. I didn't base how I felt when I woke up as the scenario for the entire day.
BPD can be managed. I went thru hell with a previous psychiatrist and almost committed suicide.
I found a good doctor and my treatment improved my life 100%. Learn all you can .... read all about your meds. If any meds are not working don't just continue to take them and let a doctor prescribe more on top of them.
The most important help I had was my daughters, who became my patient advocates. The psychiatrist walked the line after he knew he was held accountable to someone. After a hospitalization for being unable to sleep for three days, I fired my psychiatrist who yelled at me and told me I was depressed. I told him I couldn't sleep and fired him, was evaluated by another psychiatrist, diagnosed as BPD (NOS), put on Effexor & Seroquel and had the Klonopin reduced and ultimately replaced with three 5 mg. Valiums per day. The Valium did not make me sleepy all day. The Effexor helped with the depression and the Seroquel helped as a mood stabilizer and a sleep aid for insomnia.
A doctor who doesn't care and just prescribes more and more medicine should be a warning sign. Get proper help from someone who has a great reputation.
You are in charge of your life. Just because you have been diagnosed as BP, doesn't mean you can't take charge of your care. Talk to a trusted family member or friend and have them work with you to help you get the proper treatment.
My life is wonderful now. A "bad" doctor stole five years of my life.View Thread
regarding memory and bipolar. Hope that helps.View Thread
regarding memory and bipolar. Hope that helps.View Thread
Please help I don't want to make anything worse than it already is
Thank youView Thread
J. D. Salinger
One (60 ml) bottle cost me $5 through my insurance and lasts forever.
There may better products out there but I thought I'd share what works for me.View Thread
J. D. Salinger
already fragile and vulnerable, being labeled and treated only confirmed to me I
was worthless. It was clear my thoughts, feelings, and opinions counted for little. I was
presumed not to be able to take care of myself or to make decisions in my own best
interest, and to need mental health professionals running my life for me. For this total
disregard of my wishes and feelings, I was expected to be appreciative and grateful. In
fact, anything less was taken as a further symptom of my illness, as one more indication
I truly needed more of the same.
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It took me 4 hours to get here, and it was only 10 min. away. But I'm here with my crazy anxiety, shaky hands, and pounding heart~BP 163/99~
But with all that I feel a little calm, glad i'm here, atleast for now. I'll take one min. at a time, just have to remind myself to Breathe.
Thanks All~View Thread
We had a former pastor who thought anyone with any mental issue could snap out of it by willpower alone. My wife has been under a psychiatrist's care for 24 years, and is not going to just "snap out of it" even though she is better than she used to be.
You may have to have minimal interaction with people who are rigid and inflexible. As my wife's primary caregiver, I am constantly getting better at "reading" people. In my experience, some people I have to steer her away from, since since some think THEY are the ones that can persuade her to see things their way.
Caregivers need support also. I sometimes talk with a guy from church who was married for over thirty years to a bipolar women. He has taught classes for NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) mentioned by another poster (the website is www.nami.org and sometimes people can get tips there on various helpful items). We support each other in a quiet way.
Please hold in there, some people do try to understand.
PaulView Thread
I have come up with one way to help me get through a depressive episode. I tell myself this:
FEELINGS ARE NOT FACTS
In other words, my dysfunctional brain is lying to me.
So if I start feeling like people would be better without me, I stop and check with myself "Is this true?" Or if I think that I will never get better, "Is this true?"
This technique has helped keep me out of the hospital for years.View Thread
Their refusal to speak to pareants and friends of those tortured by mental problems is one of the most neglected forms of medical malpractis that I know of.
Only a parent, a friend, or a spouse knows what a mentally challenged person does to hurt, torture, lie, and adjust their lives to their way of thinking.
By the time a challenged person meets a "doctor", they are capapable of either lying to the "doctor" or have no clue of the reason they are there.
I have requested an audience with four "professionals" and all of them stated that they and my daughter could handle her problems.
My daughter had attempted to kill her mother, had me arrested for domestic violence, married a convicted felon, who she just moved back in with, only assiciates with one race of Americans and none of her "PSYCS" are aware of any of her problems.
I am sick of shrinks attempting to treat my kid when they only see her side of her ailment.
TREAT BUT DON'T DIAGNOSE. YOU ARE CLUELESS!!!!View Thread
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