Hi I'm crazylady aka Dawn and I have Bipolar effective disorder.
Where the bipolar stops and I start I really don't know, maybe we are 1 and the same.
How long have I had bipolar? Officially 2 years. But I have had problems since I was a young child. While I was still in infant school someone from education said my problems in school where a result of my being worried about my parents fighting and them getting divorced. I would have loved them to!
Bipolar is very generous in that it gives you all most every symptom of all other depressive illness but is classed as a personality disorder. Which means it takes ages to get a diagnosis.Then you discover that you are on medication for life.
If medication was classed as food I'd never need to eat LOL.
I hate this illness! It has taken over not just my life but that of my family.
At times I feel so lonely and isolated that I just want 2 curl up and hide.
As a result of one of my medications I tremor from head 2 foot, from inside out even my eyes. And I have sudden spasms.Eating out doesn't happen alot and I very rarely write .
But I'm a surviver and with the help of my friends/family on NMP.I will continue to do so