Sometimes I feel guilty for having #ActuallyBipolar in my profile because nothing ever happens anymore but now a lot of the warning signs for #hypomania and a very slight #psychosis are showing up. I have doubts that this is the correct way to interpret what's happening anymore and I'm exploring that but it's basically the same thing that always happens anyway.
Don't worry. I have a concrete plan and support who has been alerted already.
I've been around for a minute, and my #Mastodon account is @skroobler, but I migrated from my single-user #Akkoma instance to my new, single-user #Calckey instance. I'm a guy with a TOUCH of the #bipolar (cough), and I live in a travel trailer with my 3-legged tabby cat Waffles. Fairly left politics; if I had to define them let's say broadly by political content creators with large platforms, I am more #MajorityReport than #TYT (by quite a lot, actually). Here is a picture of Waffles to kick things off properly.
If you have questions about what it's like to be bipolar, feel free to ask! I'm type 2 bipolar, but I've also experienced full manic episodes more typical of type 1 on occasion. I'll do my best to answer any questions (and I'll let you know gently if I'm not comfortable answering). #bipolar#MentalIllness#MentalHealth
I received the light therapy light I ordered yesterday from Amazon, and I'm glad I ordered it when I did for it's another day of dark skies with tornado warnings thrown in. I didn't measure before ordering, so it's a bit big, but I like the color and shape, and my plants will probably appreciate the extra boost during our dark days together. I have it on the warmest setting because my eyes are a bit sensitive. I think it's pretty, though. 🌞#depression#SAD#bipolar
I've never posted an #introduction so here it is, finally!
We're Rak, a plural system consisting of Anna, Kat, and Farah (among others). All of our pronouns are she/her and it's fine to refer to our whole system as such.
We're panromantic, grey-asexual, and polyamorous! Very leftist, not religious. We also have ADHD, OCD, and Bipolar II, so hopefully we can find others to relate and share experiences with.
We'll each write our own little mini-intros for anyone interested!
💙 I'm Anna ^^ more often than not I'm in front, though very often alongside Kat. I'm a very nerdy blue catgirl. I'm pretty reserved, thoughtful, and deliberate, though also often anxious. I'm the linux nerd in our system ^^ I'm a sucker for optimization and efficiency in all things, and I love tinkering and customizing everything. I really enjoy factory building games and sandbox games.
Kat and I have a lot of overlap with our interests; together we're pretty creative and enjoy art, 3D modeling, music making, and gamedev. We both enjoy playing FFXIV (especially savage raiding and clubbing!), Monster Hunter, FromSoft games, and retro shooters.
💜 hiii i'm kat! i'm very extraverted, and i really love meeting and getting to know people! i'm really excited to be able to be myself here now, and i'll probably post a lot hehe.. i'm carefree, excitable, affectionate, and energetic. i can be pretty flirty at times! also i'm a catgirl too :3 i'd love to meet you!!
🤎 Hello, my name is Farah. I don't know if I'm going to really use social media much, but I wanted to give an introduction regardless. I do anything I can to make Anna and Kat's lives a little bit easier, though recently I've been exploring my own interests as well. I really love animals and nature. I'm happy to talk to anyone friendly!
This turned out to be a lot longer than expected, thanks for your interest ^^ Feel free to send us a DM, we'd love to talk about anything!
One of my weird quirks is I can't listen to music in the background. It hugely distracts from what I'm doing and so becomes irritating.
I like music, but my world is free of it unless my main task is listening to music, or at movies, concerts, clubbing, etc.. I don't even listen to music in a car.
I get the same problem with television in the background, even if it's muted. Changing background visuals are as distracting as music.
One of my most severe and long lasting psychotic episodes was fed and nourished by politics and news. Specifically, it was triggered during the early days of an infamous presidential candidacy.
Every time I see a related post in my feed without a cw, my eyes are initially drawn to it, and then a little bit of anxiety is dropped in into my bucket. I have to actively talk myself through every little drop of anxiety, but the fear is that my bucket will eventually fill up, potentially leading to another episode.
I like to occasionally bring this up because it is important to those of us who are affected by politics.
*This was my response to a post in my feed, but I didn’t want to overwhelm the original poster with all the hashtags so I just copied it here.
Has anyone else experienced psychiatric side-effects with Methocarbamol as a muscle relaxant? I have spastic #neuropathy and was prescribed, but after a month of feeling increasingly anxious and angry, I spent four solid days awake. Did the math, called my doc, stopped the med, but boy heck was that horrid! I'm #Bipolar RC, and I take Abilify along with Strattera for my ADHD. I had a similar, but less severe reaction to Flexaril, but doctor assured me this was different. Any alternatives known?
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I got 8 hours sleep last night which is double what I’ve been managing of late. Thank fck for that as my #hypomania has been getting out of control. I narrowly avoided a full on war with a senior manager at work, and nearly fell out with an old friend on Twitter, all the while feeling angry, fighty and on the verge of tears. Hoping that the wired rage will now subside. And the #hypersexuality. #bipolar is complete mind fckery #cyclothymia
Which groups are you a part of? Seems like everywhere I scroll most users fall into at least one of these categories, so just curious as to just how many do.
Low-Dose Oral Film Reduces Mental Disorder Agitation
Interim results from a clinical trial show a drug given as a dissolvable oral film in a lower #dose reduces #agitation in people with #bipolar disorder and #schizophrenia.
If you have depression, insomnia, AND a tendency to feel energised or happy (at least for a while) when you don't sleep, I highly recommend looking into the possibility that you're bipolar. #bipolar#mentalIllness#MentalHealth