A Bipolar Journey

Welcome to my journey with mental illness. This blog will focus on bipolar disorder, anxiety, and general mental health. 

[a-bipolar-journey]

Where can I check my baggage? I don't want it anymore.

[sheisrecovering]

A bad day does not make you a bad person.

[blissey-healing]

You're intrusive thoughts do not make you a bad person nor do they control you. You will be okay.

[mentalhealth]

your trauma is not your fault. your trauma is not your fault.

[weltenwellen]

Anis Mojgani, from “Here I Am”, Songs from Under the River: A Collection of Poetry

[anxietyproblem]

[smilezone8-blog]

[a-bipolar-journey]

I feel so lonely.

[a-bipolar-journey]

I think one of the worst parts of depression is knowing you are actually a burden.

[a-bipolar-journey]

I've been having a really bad time recently. This is the worst depressive episode I've had in a very long time.

[pajamasecrets]

I know a lot of my fellow bipolar peeps compare depressive episodes to eeyore and manic episodes to tigger, but consider this: mixed episodes are tigger and eeyore having a knife fight in a denny’s parking lot at 2 AM

[sunshineysprinkles]

A quick list of things you are not:

damaged goods.

a burden.

worthless.

a failure.

stupid.

a waste of space.

weak.

a lost cause.

alone.

[focusedandfearless]

[anniespositivity]

Cry. Cry because everything is too much. Cry because you have been hiding your pain for so long. Cry because you are sad. Because you are angry. Because you are frustrated. Cry for no apparent reason. Cry as much as you need to. Let it all out. It is not weak to cry, it is in fact an essential part of processing your emotions. Do not let anyone tell you that you are overreacting or being dramatic, for you are neither of these things. You feel what you feel and you should be able to express it at all times. It is healthy. It is human. And it is part of healing, my love.

[depression-healthy-carrier]

“It’s all in your head” yeah that’s kind of the entire problem innit

[bob-belcher]

side effects of being numb due to mental illness:

not crying for weeks and weeks on end until one day, you’re breaking down over something that isn’t actually worth getting upset about

not being able to tell if your feelings for people are platonic or romantic or if you’re just lonely

instead of caring too much, you don’t care at all about anything

not being able to process anything going on in your life and when you try, your brain stalls out

losing your train of thought every five seconds, so when you try to have a conversation, you have to pause and remember what you were trying to say

word vomiting

mind “static”

[gravehop187]