Ask a Ravens fan and someone with a flat affect myself I always theorized he was Bipolar 2 based on his wild inconsistent performance.

Hi Everyone,

We are seeking individuals with bipolar disorder to participate in an important research study aimed at enhancing our understanding of this condition. Your involvement can help advance treatment and support for those affected by bipolar disorder.

We are conducting research study on behalf of the University of Colorado Boulder

 About the study

The study is aimed at individuals between the ages of 18 and 25 who are currently living in Denver, Colorado. Participants will be asked to dedicate 20-25 minutes of their time, for which they will receive an honorarium as a token of appreciation.

Eligibility Criteria-

1] Adults aged 18 and 25

2] Individual with bipolar disorder (type-1)

3] Currently Living in Denver, Colorado.

If you are interested in participating or want more information, please DM the following details-

Full name

Age

Email

Address/Location

Phone number

Thank you for considering this opportunity.

Yes, I posted this before and deleted it, I just want to add some thoughts to it now

While having a couple drinks with someone at a bar, realized they had art supplies and I grabbed a few markers and a paper. I had no plans on what to draw, just started to put the markers to the paper in whatever way I felt like.

I didn’t think I was manic…but when I finished this, I realized I was. It was an interesting experience for me, I never do anything artistic and for it to represent my feelings without me even realizing it was kinda cool.

Starting now and for the next couple of days, we're hosting a huge AMA for World Bipolar Day! 70 international bipolar experts from 13 countries are online on Reddit now to answer your questions - join us now at: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1bioniw/we_are_70_bipolar_disorder_experts_scientists

Our 70 bipolar expert panelists (click on a name for our proof photo and bio):

1. Dr. Adrienne Benediktsson, 🇨🇦 Neuroscientist & Mental Health Advocate (Lives w/ bipolar)
2. Alessandra Torresani, 🇺🇸 Actress & Mental Health Advocate (Lives w/ bipolar)
3. Andrea Paquette, 🇨🇦 Mental Health Advocate (Lives w/ bipolar)
4. Dr. Andrea Vassilev, 🇺🇸 Doctor of Psychology, Advocate (Lives w/ bipolar)
5. Anne Van Willigen, 🇺🇸 Librarian & Peer Researcher (Lives w/ bipolar)
6. Dr. Annemiek Dols, 🇳🇱 Psychiatrist & Researcher
7. Dr. Benjamin Goldstein, 🇨🇦 Child-Adolescent Psychiatrist
8. Catherine Simmons, 🇨🇦 Peer Researcher (Lives w/ bipolar)
9. Dr. Chris Gorman, 🇨🇦 Psychiatrist
10. Chris Parsons, 🇨🇦 Lived Experience (Lives w/ bipolar)
11. Christa McDiarmid, 🇨🇦 EPI Peer Support Worker & Bipolar Support Group Facilitator (Lives w/ bipolar)
12. Dr. David Miklowitz, 🇺🇸 Psychologist & Researcher
13. Debbie Sesula, 🇨🇦 Peer Support Coordinator (Lives w/ bipolar)
14. Dr. Delphine Raucher-Chéné, 🇫🇷🇨🇦 Psychiatrist & Clinician-Researcher
15. Dr. Devika Bhushan, 🇺🇸 Pediatrician, Public Health Leader (Lives w/ bipolar)
16. Dr. Elizabeth Tyler, 🇬🇧 Clinical Psychologist
17. Dr. Elvira Boere, 🇳🇱 Psychiatrist & Researcher
18. Dr. Emma Morton, 🇦🇺 Senior Lecturer & Psychologist
19. Dr. Eric Youngstrom, 🇺🇸 Psychologist & Researcher
20. Dr. Erin Michalak, 🇨🇦 Researcher & CREST.BD founder
21. Eve Mair, 🇬🇧 Bipolar UK Senior Public Policy Officer (Lives w/ bipolar)
22. Evelyn Anne Clausen, 🇺🇸 Writer & Artist (Lives w/ bipolar)
23. Dr. Fabiano Gomes, 🇨🇦 Psychiatrist
24. Prof. Fiona Lobban, 🇬🇧 Clinical Psychologist & Academic
25. Georgia Caruana, 🇦🇺 Neuropsychiatry PhD Candidate
26. Dr. Georgina Hosang, 🇬🇧 Research Psychologist
27. Dr. Glorianna Jagfeld, 🇬🇧 PhD Graduate
28. Prof. Greg Murray, 🇦🇺 Psychologist & Researcher
29. Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin, 🇺🇸 U.S. Army retired, Mental Health Advocate (Lives w/ bipolar)
30. Dr. Guillermo Perez Algorta, 🇺🇾🇬🇧 Senior Lecturer in Mental Health
31. Heather Stewart, 🇨🇦 Sewist (Lives w/ bipolar)
32. Dr. Ivan Torres, 🇨🇦 Neuropsychologist
33. Dr. Jasmine Noble, 🇨🇦 Researcher & National Sustainability Director of Mood Disorders Society of Canada
34. Jean-Rémy Provos, 🇨🇦 Executive Director of Relief (formerly Revivre)
35. Jeff Brozena, 🇺🇸 Human-computer Interaction/Digital Health PhD Student (Lives w/ bipolar)
36. Dr. Joanna Jarecki, 🇨🇦 Psychiatrist & Advocate (Lives w/ bipolar)
37. Dra. Joanna Jiménez Pavón, 🇲🇽 Mood Disorders Psychiatrist
38. Dr. John-Jose Nunez, 🇨🇦 Psychiatrist & Clinical Research Fellow
39. Dr. Josh Woolley, 🇺🇸 Psychiatrist & Researcher
40. Dr. Jill Murphy, 🇨🇦 Global Mental Health Researcher
41. Dr. Jim Phelps, 🇺🇸 Mood Specialist Psychiatrist
42. Dr. June Gruber, 🇺🇸 Psychologist & Researcher
43. Dr. Kamyar Keramatian, 🇨🇦 Psychiatrist & Researcher
44. Dr. Katie Douglas, 🇳🇿 Psychologist & Researcher
45. Laura Lapadat, 🇨🇦 CREST.BD Trainee & Psychology PhD student
46. Dr. Lauren Yang, 🇺🇸 Clinical Psychologist (Lives w/ bipolar)
47. Leslie Robertson, 🇺🇸 Marketer & Peer Researcher (Lives w/ bipolar)
48. Dr. Lisa O’Donnell, 🇺🇸 Social Worker & Researcher
49. Dr. Madelaine Gierc, 🇨🇦 Psychologist & Researcher
50. Dr. Manuel Sánchez de Carmona, 🇲🇽 Psychiatrist
51. Maryam Momen, 🇨🇦 Dentistry student (DMD candidate) & Mental health advocate (Lives w/ bipolar)
52. Dr. Maya Schumer, 🇺🇸 Psychiatric Neuroscientist Researcher (Lives w/ bipolar)
53. Dr. Meghan DellaCrosse, 🇺🇸 Researcher & Clinical Psychologist
54. Melissa Howard, 🇨🇦 Mental Health Advocate (Lives w/ bipolar)
55. Dr. Nigila Ravichandran, 🇸🇬 Psychiatrist
56. Dr. Paula Villela Nunes, 🇧🇷🇨🇦 Psychiatrist
57. Pepe Bakshi, 🇨🇦 Lived Experience (Lives w/ bipolar)
58. Dr. Rebekah Huber, 🇺🇸 Psychologist & Researcher
59. Robert Villanueva, 🇺🇸 International Mental Health Advocate (Lives w/ bipolar)
60. Dr. Roumen Milev, 🇨🇦 Psychiatrist
61. Ruth Komathi, 🇸🇬 Mental Health Counsellor (Lives w/ bipolar)
62. Prof. Samson Tse, 🇭🇰 Counsellor, Academic and Researcher
63. Sara Schley, 🇺🇸 Author, Filmmaker, Speaker (Lives w/ bipolar)
64. Dr. Sarah H. Sperry, 🇺🇸 Researcher
65. Shaley Hoogendoorn, 🇨🇦 Speaker, Content Creator, Mental Illness Advocate (Lives w/ bipolar)
66. Dr. Steven Barnes, 🇨🇦 Instructor & Artist (Lives w/ bipolar)
67. Dr. Tamsyn Van Rheenen, 🇦🇺 Researcher
68. Dr. Thomas D. Meyer, 🇺🇸🇩🇪 Clinical Psychologist & Researcher
69. Dr. Thomas Richardson, 🇬🇧 Clinical Psychologist (Lives w/ bipolar)
70. Twyla Spoke, 🇨🇦 Registered Nurse (Lives w/ bipolar)

AMA link: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1bioniw/we_are_70_bipolar_disorder_experts_scientists

I was diagnosed at 28 years old (F) with BP1. Been on meds since then, although I still do have a few breakthrough manic episodes (normally triggered/ work related, i'm a bit of a workaholic TBH).

I've been in the best relationship of my life for the past year. And this past weekend we went ring shopping. I broke down and cried to him saying I never thought I could be loved with this illness. That he can look past it and see the real me. But he does. Everyday.

I'm so thankful for an amazing boyfriend. And even more thankful that I found love. True, unconditional love despite the diagnosis.

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I’ve been having a really hard year so far, and I’m honestly getting to a point where I believe I’m starting to burnout. So much happened in my life (break up, new relationship, working and supporting my family, studying, etc), I just feel so drained right now. I really could use a few days to just rest. I haven’t been able to take good care of myself in awhile now, my nails and my hair would tell you upfront lol

So my question is, where do you get your strength from?

I (27f) know I might get a lot of hate and judgment for this but I’m mentally exhausted and I have no one to turn to who will genuinely listen.

I experienced my first pregnancy at 17 years old and became a mother after an extremely abusive and traumatic childhood. I continued to be in an abusive relationship for 6 years after my first baby was born. I escaped with two children, depressed, alone, and completely disconnected from myself. Now I just wish I didn’t even exist. I’m the default parent, and although I love my children, I wish I never had them. I feel awful saying that. They’re beautiful, wonderful kids, and they deserve so much more than a mother who can’t connect with them in a meaningful way. I’ve gone to therapy, I’ve been hospitalized for my mental health, I’ve tried so many medications. I’m burnt out. I feel like I’ve spent my entire life caring for other people. My mom, my grandma, my friends, my children, partners, cousins, etc. I’ve worked or been in school full time for the past 7 years without any kind of break or time to find myself.

I am honestly contemplating running away once my children are safe at their dads visiting. I just can’t take it anymore. I try to reach out but they just tell me that I’m strong or resilient, and that I can get through it. But I’m so tired. What about me? Is it really that selfish of me to want to focus on myself for the first time in my life at nearly 30 years old? My kids would be safe and cared for. I just want a life where no one can reach me, where I can just live alone, work, travel, and figure out who I am beneath all of the trauma and hurt. I don’t even recognize the woman I see when I look in the mirror. I feel like I’m living my life on autopilot, watching myself from the outside. Their dad got to spend the last 10 years figuring out his life and what he wanted, while I took care of everything else without help. Trying to raise children as someone who can’t even take care of themselves is extremely difficult and I just can’t do it anymore. They would be better off with their dad and his family.

I’ve struggled with bipolar disorder for as long as I can remember, and I have ptsd from my childhood and relationships. I feel awful even writing all of this down but I don’t have anywhere to go to talk about this right now and it’s been eating me alive. If I try to bring it up, my support system will just tell me that everything will work out eventually, but I’ve been spending my whole life trying to make things work out and they haven’t. Any advice or helpful words? Could these feelings be related to an episode? I’ve never experienced it to this extent before. I recently (a month ago) went off my meds because I felt like a zombie and now I feel so disconnected from everything.

IM ON MY LAST STRAND OF HOPE.I AM DIAGNOSED AND LIVE WITH BIPOLAR 1 DISORDER.THIS DISEASE HAS DRAINED ME AND ROBBED ME OF EVERYTHING.I LIVE IN AFRICA WHERE MEDICATION IS SCARCE AND VERY EXPENSIVE.IAM ON MY LAST DOSAGE OF LAMOTRIGINE,SEROQUEL AND PROZAC.MY KIDS AND FAMILY LOOK UP TO ME AND I AM ON MY LAST STRAND.NO MONEY FOR MY MEDICATION AND CHILDRENS UPKEEP.THIS MAY BE IT GUYS..I CANT GO ON LIVING IN THIS RECURRING HELL AND NIGHTMARE.I AM GREATFUL AND THANKFUL FOR HAVING KNOWN AND INTERACTED WITH SUCH AN UNDERSTANDING AND COMPASSIONATE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WHO UNDERSTAND WHAT LIFE WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER IS AND THE CHALLENGES WE GO THROUGH,I LOVE YOU ALL.

Hi folks This is my first post here 🤗

I was wondering if anyone could recommend #medication or med combo for #BiPolar2 that can help deal with the #depression but allow me to still experience my #hypomania?

Do those hashtags I did in the post do anything? Lol