
I'm chugging along, and the fog is lifting. Being creative helps a lot. Having others share their creative works helps a lot, too.
Thank you to Joseph Allan for the picture.
one woman's experience with mental illness
This is the best description of my own Bipolar II symptoms which I have found to date. Here is the link to the full article. (To my loved ones: please be aware that I am on several helpful medications. I am not feeling suicidal.)
Hypomanic Episodes: Hypomania is a mild version of mania where the symptoms are the same [as bipolar I] but are less intense – they only need to last four days and do not significantly impair a person’s functioning. Many people find they are more productive and have positive social interactions when hypomanic. Others find that although a single hypomanic episode does not cause much impairment, repeated episodes negatively affect finances, social relationships, and/or work performance.
Major Depressive Episodes (MDEs): Depression is the down state when people feel sad or blue, or simply cannot enjoy anything. This state tends to be characterized by changes in sleep, appetite and weight, energy, and cognitive (thinking) abilities. People may feel worthless and guilty, and may consider suicide.
Major depressive episode is defined as a period of at least two weeks with five or more of the following symptoms:
o Depressed mood and/or anhedonia (an inability to take pleasure in things, or greatly diminished interest in activities usually enjoyed)
and
o A decrease or increase in appetite; weight loss or gain
o Sleep disturbance (insomnia or hypersomnia)
o Feeling physically slowed down or physically restless
o Fatigue or loss of energy
o Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt
o Difficulty concentrating or making decisions
o Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide
2 comments:
I am happy you feel like you are making progress. Being create does help and you are so talented at what you do that it is also helpful for others to share in the beauty of what you create! Woot!
dan did a baptism for the dead, confirmation, washing annointing, confirmation to an elder, and endowment for a vonnie dunigan who was a close friend and neighbor who died of stage 4 brain cancer in the temple...had another friend meet him at the baptistry, then walked him over to the ordinance room then went through the temple session with him with the deaf card pinned to his shirt...all last night at 5 pm...all the temple ready information was all typed out ready for him when he got there
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