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Real Life: Mental Health

On August 1, I started a new thing. 

No, not a new hobby or a new business idea.

It’s a little white pill.

I haven’t taken any regular medication my whole life. Not even birth control. My celiac is managed with a gluten-free diet, so there’s no need for anything there. And aside from the occasional aspirin for pain, and cough medicine during cold season, I’m pretty healthy. 

But new things in my life mean I need a little more help.

Over the past few years, I have noticed a regular and increasing pattern. I go through periods of extreme productivity, getting lots of work done for my business and my clients. I pick up new activities and start new art projects when I’m like this. I’m on top of the world and it feels AWESOME! 

Then...kind of suddenly...my mood will change. I get tired easily. I’m grumpy. It’s all I can do to sit on the couch, laptop in hand, desperately trying to accomplish my weekly tasks. Laundry and dirty dishes pile up. Work piles up. And my emotions go wild, swinging from perfectly normal to outbursts of uncontrollable rage or fits of tears.

I’ve been diagnosed with depression twice before. Both of those periods lasted months, long long months. I went to therapy and developed a lot of habits and tools to help when depression strikes again. And I’ve been using those tools but...they’ve not been working as well as they should. In my late mood dips, I just cope, waiting until things feel better.

The reams of notes throughout my journals confirm this. The pattern is regular. Repeating. And it’s been getting worse and more severe.

About a week ago, a psychiatrist confirmed what my PCP suspected the first of August when she prescribed this little white pill. My issues stem from Type Two, Rapid Cycle Bipolar. 

Type Two Bipolar is a milder form of what you normally think of when somebody says “bipolar”. I don’t swing into highs where I spend gobs of money and party. But I still feel incredibly invincible when I’m on my “high”. I tackle so much and get so much done! But the drop is intense, miserable, and dark. It’s a night and day difference.

Classic bipolar cycles once or twice a year, flip-flopping between these two extremes. Anything that cycles more than three times a year is considered “rapid cycling.” By my observations and notes, I’m going from high to low every six weeks or so. 

Talk about your roller coaster. It’s exhausting.

Hence this new, little white pill. It’s medication to help stabilize my mood, helping me land between these two extremes into something more sustainable and even. That’s the goal anyway. It’s going to take a bit before it starts working. And even then it will require monitoring to ensure it’s still effective.

So why do I bring this up? I believe we don’t talk about mental health as much as we should. People with mental illness and disorders like mine are dismissed, as if the idea was all in their heads. Well...it is in the head. But it’s not made up. It’s real. It affects life. Undealt with, it can destroy relationships, friends, family, communities. At the very worst, it can be deadly, particularly to the one with the issue. And this shouldn’t be.

I bring this up because it’s OKAY to have a mental illness or disorder. It’s not unusual or rare. Mental health professionals estimate that one in five Americans have a mental health issue or disorder. That’s more frequent than my celiac disease.

What’s not okay is the stigma that keeps people in the dark and in pain. This only keeps those with a mental disorder from the help and support we need to thrive. And it hurts us because such stigma says our problems and challenges are not real, not worth solving, and not worth comforting.

The only way we overcome this is being honest about the issues we face, coming around each other and saying, “It’s okay. I’m here. You’re not alone in this.”

So to anybody else with bipolar or any other mood disorder or illness: You are not alone. There are others like you. It’s okay to have a mental illness. There is help. There are ways to cope. You don’t have to fight alone. This life is worth living, even with it’s challenges and you can experience this in community.

Share this if you’re a supporter of mental health, or if you or a friend has a mental health issue!

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Sometimes I think I’m bipolar with someone because I can be just fine and then my mood switch changes in a blink of an eye. But also happens when I’m try to give help someone but they think I want to control their life.

Maybe is just me.

Don’t care.

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Kasus Medina Zein yang terjerat narkoba turut mengundang perhatian publik. Apalagi ada beberapa keterangan aneh yang diungkapkan oleh pihak keluarga dan Medina. . Salah satunya adalah keterangan soal penyakit bipolar yang diidap oleh Medina Zein. Pada Jumat (3/1) saat ditemui di Polda Metro Jaya, Medina Zein dan sang ibu memiliki jawaban berbeda soal bipolar. Medina mengaku sudah mengidap penyakit itu sejak 2016 lalu dan itu disebabkan oleh genetik dari sang ibu, Tien Wartini. Namun Tien malah memberikan jawaban berbeda. . "Nggak, nggak ada (keturunan) karena saya Hipotiroid dulu dan dinyatakan sama dokter sembuh waktu Medina usia SMP kelas 1," tutur Tien. . Namun saat ditemui di kawasan Lebak Bulus, Jakarta Selatan pada Minggu (5/1) Tien yang ditemani kuasa hukum Medina, Raden Ariya Y Wibawa S.H, justru memberikan jawaban yang berbeda lagi. . Seakan mendukung pernyataan Medina, Tien justru mengatakan jika dirinya mungkin saja mengidap bipolar dan menurunkannya pada Medina. . "Mungkin gen (bipolar) ada di saya kalau diperiksa. Kata dokter kemungkinan gen, Medina sempet bilang 'Ini pasti gara-gara ibu, kan ibu sibuk'. Ibu belum pernah tes kan namanya tinggal di kampung ya," ujarnya. . Tak hanya itu, sepanjang wawancara sosok Tien Wartini lebih memilih diam dan berhati-hati dalam berbicara. Ia pun kerap berkonsultasi dengan kuasa hukum Medina dan keluarganya sebelum menjawab pertanyaan awak media. . Sumber : detik.com. #MedinaZein #biopolar #narkobaartis #artisnarkoba #ibraazhari #medinazeinnarkoba #ibumedinazein #medinazeindirehabilitasi #artis #Irwansyah #zaskiasungkar #umrah #selebriti #tahu_nggak #tahunggak https://www.instagram.com/p/B677WQQADTs/?igshid=1ip5dmfobacqy