Latest Posts by bipolaruchiha - Page 4
It’s the masterpost that no one actually asked for, but I really wanted to make. I’ve found a lot of resources, but they were never in one place. So instead of searching all over the place all the time, I decided to make this.
This also includes resources for schizoaffective disorder, which I’ve never seen a masterpost for! I didn’t include things like “Dealing with a bipolar loved one”, but I might make a separate post for friends/family.
Basic information:
About Bipolar Disorder (DBSA)
Bipolar Disorder (NIMH), Bipolar Disorder (Mayo Clinic)
Overview of Bipolar Disorder (pdf)
Bipolar I (WebMD)
Bipolar II (WebMD)
Cyclothymia (Mayo Clinic), Cyclothymia (WebMD)
What is rapid cycling? (DBSA)
Schizoaffective Disorder (NAMI), Schizoaffective Disorder (Mayo Clinic)
Diagnosing bipolar disorder NOS (verywell)
The secret life of manic depression (pdf)
BPD vs BD (post by homojabi)
Mania and hypomania:
Mania symptoms (psych central)
What is mania and hypomania? (WebMD)
What is a manic episode? (healthy place)
Coping with mania (healthline)
Dealing with this manic episode (living manic depressive)
Behavioral strategies for preventing mania (pdf)
Cognitive strategies for preventing mania (pdf)
How to prevent a hypomanic episode (pdf)
Hypersexuality information post (OP deleted, so it’s on bipolarnet)
Depressive episodes:
Depression in bipolar disorder (black dog institute)
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about bipolar depression (bphope)
Cognitive strategies for preventing and managing depression (pdf)
Behavioral strategies for preventing and managing depression (pdf)
Depression laundry tips (depressionresource)
Mixed episodes:
Mixed episode symptoms (psych central)
How to treat mixed mood episodes (bipolar burble)
Bipolar episodes with mixed features (WebMD)
Schizoaffective disorder:
Living with schizoaffective disorder (psych central)
Living with schizoaffective disorder (brain blogger)
What is schizoaffective disorder?, self care, + treatments and support (mind.org)
Psychosis:
Talking to friends about psychosis ( @therapidcyclist )
Surviving halloween with psychosis ( @mentalhealthwarrior )
How to deal with paranoia when you’re alone ( post by skailu )
How to handle hallucinations (post by schizotiger)
Treatment and medication info:
crazymeds (mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics)
Bipolar medication guide (help guide)
Bipolar disorder - What medication is available? (mind.org)
Bipolar disorder - treatment (nhs)
What to do if your parents refuse to let you have access to mental healthcare (posted by abusedkidproblems)
Self care / executive dysfunction:
Dysfunctional’s guide to functioning ( therapidcyclist )
Grounding kits ( @depressionresource )
What to do when showering is too hard (depressionresource)
lowspoonsgourmet and no-more-ramen
articles on college and bipolar disorder (ibpf)
Fact sheet on recognizing and preventing future episodes
Bipolar self care post (unfortunately OP’s theme is nearly impossible to read, so it’s on bipolarnet)
Apps:
Bipol-app, Booster Buddy, Daily Feats, Daylio, Emoods, iMood journal, Mango Health MediSafe, MoodPanda, Pacifica
note: I’ve tried to make sure all of these apps are free!
This ended up being really long already, but feel free to add to this. If your post was featured here and you want me to remove it, let me know! Please let me know if any links are broken.
Another thing people don’t talk a lot about in hypo/mania is that it can cause your emotions to be very intense and switch very quickly. doctors call that emotional lability
so while the bi in bipolar represents mania and depression which last an extended period of time, switching emotions quickly and intensely can still be a bipolar experience in hypo/mania
dam…….. that website “you feel like shit” (it’s like a questionnaire / troubleshooting guide for when you feel like shit) really works………………….. im not even all the way thru it and i even half-assed a lot of the suggestions and i already feel loads better
whats the ice cream bar approach ?
So, @bipolarings has a post talking about this a little already, but I'm always happy to be given an excuse to blather about brains :D
The ice cream bar/sundae bar metaphor was originally created to describe the autism spectrum, but it works really well for other things too, including bipolar disorder. I'mma adapt it a lil bit here, in fact, to make it work even better. Yay me.
The principle is this: instead of trying to divide up bipolar disorder into I/II/NOS/etc, or classify it as 'severe' or 'mild', picture it as a sundae bar.
Now, every day, you make yourself a sundae. You can take as many toppings as you 'want' and as much of each topping as you 'want'.
There are some toppings that go well together, so, for instance, if you take a lot of euphoria there's a good chance you'll also get some hypersexuality, some delusions of grandiosity, some creative drive, some ambition, some psychomotor agitation. And that would be called a 'manic episode'. You could get somewhat less of each, maybe leave off the delusions of grandiosity, and people might call it a 'hypomanic episode'. Even less and people might call it 'euthymia'.
But the thing is, you don't have to get it that way, and you can take any amount of each! So you might get low mood but a lot of psychomotor agitation, irritability, and disregard of consequences. Or you could get a huge amount of emotional numbness but combine it with the stuff other people like to put with euphoria. Or you could get just a bit of low mood but spice it up with hallucinations and delusions (other). Or you could get a lot of delusions of grandiosity but only a tiny amount of euphoria.
And what you get one day doesn't determine what you get the next. You could spend years getting nothing but the 'hypomania combo' and the 'depression family-size' and then one day decide to dump the entire bowl of euphoria in your cup and top it with so many delusions it starts to spill over the sides. Or maybe you've only ever gotten small, carefully curated sundaes with a healthy amount of two or three toppings but today you just tell the server 'fuck me up' and get some of absolutely everything.
Without all the metaphor:
While certain sets of symptoms commonly appear together, and are then labeled 'mania', 'hypomania', 'depression', or 'euthymia', symptoms don't have to appear in those particular combinations. (Also the DSM isn't necessarily even right about what combinations are common.)
You could also have different proportions of symptoms than someone else does. (And that doesn't necessarily make your disorder or theirs automatically more 'severe'.)
Even if you do only get common combinations of symptoms, that says nothing about how 'severe' it is. If you get an enormous amount of emotional numbness, lack of motivation, executive dysfunction, suicidality, paranoid delusions, and disregard of consequences, continuously for 98% of your adult life; and someone else gets one (1) single 3 day long episode with a medium-sized serving of delusions of grandiosity, hallucinations, and disregard of consequences; they'll probably be diagnosed with Bipolar I and you with Bipolar II, but your life is probably being affected a lot more.
What symptoms you get can also change, which can include changing from what a psychiatrist might call 'Bipolar I' to 'Bipolar II', or 'BP-II' to 'BP-NOS', or whatever. You haven't magically gotten a new disorder. You just got a different sundae today. You're still eating at the same sundae bar.
The Bipolar II Disorder Workbook | Managing Recurring Depression, Hypomania & Anxiety (Full Text)
Chapter 1: What is Bipolar II Disorder? [⇄]
Chapter 2: Understanding the Treatments for Bipolar II Disorder and a Guide to Using This Book [⇄]
Chapter 3: Applying Acceptance to Bipolar II Disorder [⇄]
Chapter 4: Recognizing the Symptoms of Bipolar II Depression [⇄]
Chapter 5: Modifying Your Thinking and Behavior to Cope with Depression [⇄]
Chapter 6: More Strategies for Modifying Your Thoughts and Behavior [⇄]
Chapter 7: Hypomania-What Is It? [⇄]
Chapter 8: Taking Action to Manage Your Hypomania [⇄]
Chapter 9: Anxiety-What Is It? [⇄]
Chapter 10: Taking Action to Manage Your Anxiety [⇄]
Chapter 11: Involving Your Family and Friends [⇄]
Chapter 12: Putting It All Together to Create a Personalized Wellness Plan [⇄]
you might have seen this bipolar flag around and i really liked the concept but i thought i’d take a spin at it and recolor/redesign
bipolar pride flag: for when you’re fuckin bipolar baby!💖💖💖💖
ive been wanting to take a swing at making this kind of thing for ages, and since im manic I figured i’d do it!
color explanation under the cut
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I'm in a support group for queer adults with disabilities (before I joined i didn't even know there *were* groups for that overlap, it's amazing and I love it) and we had our digital meeting on Monday. I shared your most recent flag update, where you had moved the new version to the public domain. Especially since we were talking about the ADA and its anniversary, it was very fitting. Everyone really liked it! Several people commented about the symbolism, in particular. So, just letting you know of some responses from outside tumblr. Thank you for putting it out there!
Thank you!
(Confession: At the time you first sent me this ask, the new version of the flag was not yet in the Public Domain. But it is, now! 🏴🎇🏴)
Shamelessly plugging the new version, again – especially since I want it to eclipse the old one:
To the extent possible under law, Ann Magill has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Visually Safe Disability Pride Flag. This work is published from: United States.
And for those who want detailed ‘specs’:
The ratio of overall breadth to overall length is 3 to 4. The ratio of the flag’s overall length to the width of each stripe is 10 to 1 (So the ratio of the overall length to the width of the combined stripes is 2 to 1).
The Hexadecimal codes for each of the colors are:
The Field: #585858
The Red: #CF7280
The Yellow: #EEDF77
The White: #E9E9E9
The Blue: #7AC1E0
The Green: #3AAF7D
Now, as to the symbolism: in the original flag, the zigzags were meant to represent “navigating around barriers.” But instead, they were the barrier – so they were removed.
So let me put the story of the new symbolism into words – here and now– and thereby bring it into being:
The Black, as it was from the beginning, represents rage and mourning for those who’ve suffered violence and abuse because of their disabilities.
The five colors, in order from left to right, represent bodily disability, neurodivergent disabilities, invisible and/or undiagnosed disabilities (always in the center, because any disability can be invisible at any time), mental illness/emotional disabilities, and sensory disabilities.
The colored band starts at the top of the hoist, which is a starting place of honor, and ends at the fly, which represents moving outward into the world.
Walls and locked doors (behind which Disabled People have been hidden for too long) are right angles, and square. And so the colored band is a diagonal that cuts across those right angles, in defiance.
The five stripes are parallel, to represent our solidarity.
There! How’s that?
