Welcome to the Manic Depression-Bipolar Forum!  We're so glad you've come!  Please feel free to look around and post on the threads that are already here.  If you do not find a thread that meets your needs and you have questions that need to be asked, please feel free to start a new thread.  Please follow all Forum TOS Rules when Posting.

Grab a cup of coffee and sit back and enjoy yourself.  Get to know each other.  We'll soon see that we can unite and make this disorder work WITH us, not against us!

Wishing you love and laughter,
Your moderators,
Cat and Emily

Hello, I have followed you here and am sittin back with my Diet Coke, waiting for some company!

Company here, pass the diet coke please, pretzels on the way

Hello all.  Glad to join you.  Cannot say that I have bipolar disorder but am still trying to figure out what I have.

Hello and glad to see you here any way silent scream.:)

Nice to see you all.  Jackie and Dave!  Hi guys!  Rhonda!  Always nice to have you guys!  And Silent Scream, I wish you luck dear in finding out what's going on with your diagnosis.  Please keep coming here and posting, maybe we can help.
Welcome, everyone!
Cat

Thank you much guys.   :)

Hi Everyone,

I am a member from long ago and now returning.  It is good to see all of you and I am looking forward to getting to know you.

Hugs,  :blush:

Hi Orion, I think I remember you!  Welcome back.  It's nice to see you.  Let me know if I can do anything for you. :D

Let's get this party rolling.  I'll bring the chips and dip!!

j2m

Hi J2M!  I'm glad you're here!  I haven't seen you in a little while... or were my eyes just closed?  How have you been?

Well I am new to this forum so hope I am posting in the correct place???   I have just been diagnosed as having Bipolar Disorder after 16 years!!  Have been on most meds, but all seem to have really bad side effects!!  I am currently taking Lofepramine and it seems to have lifted my mood a lot (although the mania is still here - have been hyper for days) and I also have severe insomnia.  It seems to be when I'm in my mania stage I can't sleep and when I'm down all I do is sleep!  I take it this is normal?

Hi all,
I have successfully made the move to the new board.  I have posted here before but not a lot.  My name is Katie and I am 20 years old.  I have been diagnosed Bipolar II since I was 16.  Right now I am in a mixed state with some irritability poking through.  As usual I am changing my meds.  Hi to those I know and it is nice to meet those of you I don't know.

Katie

Sorry for the delay in getting back.  A few life "issues" going on.  I've been around, Cat, just not as much as usual.  Hopefully when things get normal (makes me laugh just saying the "n" word), I'll be popping in and out again!!

j2m

Sparks,
Welcome to the forum!  It's nice to have you here.  Of course you're posting in the right place.  You are welcome to post anywhere you please.  Come on in and stay awhile!  Yes, when you are manic or hypomanic, it's very hard to sleep... on the other hand, when you are depressed, it's hard to wake up sometimes.  This gives your body a chance to rejunvenate, I suppose.  To catch up with all the damage we've done to them.  I wish you luck with your trials.  If I can answer any questions, feel free to ask... that's what I'm here for... and again... welcome to the forums!

:D

Hi Katie,
Of course I remember you from the old board!  WElcome to the new one... I'm sorry you're having some irritability... (I hate it when that happens ) :p   It's good to know that these things pass, though, isn't it.  (of course, that doesn't make it any easier to live with though)  My moods sometimes just register off the charts... I just have to keep telling myself that they'll pass... but I sometimes wonder WHEN?  Hang in there honey!  Keep posting, we're listening.  I'm glad you're here.

Hey B,
Did you use the "n" word?  I didn't know they still used that word around here?  or anywhere else for that matter! :D   It's nice to have you here, no matter how often.  I hope it's more and more... I like having you around!

:D

:cool: I like the Quick Post option here...is that new? I think in the old Forum layout all you could do as a newbie is click on Reply right? Anyway it's GREAT to be back! :D

:wave: Welcome back!! I was hoping you would find your way over here  R

It's me again-
Trying to get back in the swing of things.  Fighting a huge round of nasty mania.  It's my own fault - did all the wrong things.  You know - no sleep, no food, over stressed...all that fun stuff.  So - here it comes.  Physical (caused by mental?) issues are front and center right now.  Probably induced by all the other stuff.  I swear -it just never stops, does it?

Anyway - I'm still here.  Hope everyone's doing well.  Think I'll pop around a little bit before I get this day officially started.

Love to all-
B

Hi all.  I am new to these forums, but posted previously on the old ones.  I do not suffer from BPD,although I often have my own set of issues to deal with (OCD, depression).

I don't have permission to make a new thread apparently, so am posting in this one in hopes maybe someone here can advise me.

I also don't want anyone here to be offended by this post I am going to make, because I know not all BPD sufferers are violent, so be forewarned of the content here I suppose.


I am being stalked by a guy I dated in college (8 years ago!!).  He is obsessed with me, mostly I think because his life has been an abject failure since college.

Anyway, he suffers from BPD (which runs deeply in the males in his family).  He did not clearly display this when I knew him, but his illness is quite severe now.  He cycles rapidly I believe.  He suffers from severe psychosis when manic and will be manic for days at a time (as evidenced by his calling me every single minute for days running).  He has delusions that we will be together again (after he has repeatedly threatened my life and harassed me with lewd and obscene things).  When he is manic, he is very violent in the threats he makes towards me and my family.  He even threatened a police officer who tried to intervene.  He has grandiose delusions, thinking he walks on water with Christ, that he is a millionaire (he is poverty stricken), and that he has the power to make me come back and to kill my husband.  He does drugs (marijuana and LSD) which he says heighten his mania, which he enjoys.

Okay, he says he refuses medication, as it makes him "retarded".  So far, he has only threatened us verbally, but since he is clearly unstable, I have no idea when he may decide to make good on those threats.

Does anyone have any idea how I can deal with this situation?  The police department has been very unhelpful, as stalking convictions are hard to get and the penalties are negligible so the DA avoids the cases.  Is there any way to get him committed? I ask this not o