Bipolar Disorder

I knew someone who, during manic phases, would go visit co-workers and boss at their homes, unannounced....crying and apologizing for her behavior at work. Then she went thru a letter-writing phase. She was on diet pills which at the time were easy to get. (1970s)

Although she was seeing a counselor, she was terminated from her job for tardiness, missing work, poor performance, and disruptive behavior.
 

Robert59 said:
Today she is real manic in the positive side. Takes medicine which is the best so far for her. Now she loves people and in the past she had no interest in people at all. I call her the Energizer Bunny because of her high manic. She has type one Bipolar. I just wonder if her sister has this also? She drives a car like a bat out of hell. She blows up real easy over nothing. She will not go to a mental doctor to see if she is.

Their mother was not bipolar but their father was.
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I don't envy you Robert! How do you manage?
 
Robert59 said:
The state of Tennessee is looking for me a job so I can get away from her for 4 hours or more a day. They wanted to remove her from my house but she would end up living back on the street homeless at 68 years old.
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I don't understand what gives the state the right to remove her unless they were providing another place for her to stay. And you stay Tenn. is looking for a job for you. If you don't care to clarify, I understand. Or you could message me if you don't want to answer here.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I don't understand what gives the state the right to remove her unless they were providing another place for her to stay. And you stay Tenn. is looking for a job for you. If you don't care to clarify, I understand. Or you could message me if you don't want to answer here.
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The state said I don't need to take care of someone with Bipolar, Her family needs to do it but they will not because of her Bipolar they have told me. She been with me for 4 years. The state is looking for a job for me mainly because of my medical bills which is every month for eye shots and my medical insurance of 400.00 a month. I will be having eye shots for the rest of my life the doctor has said or I will go blind.
 
applecruncher said:
I knew someone who, during manic phases, would go visit co-workers and boss at their homes, unannounced....crying and apologizing for her behavior at work. Then she went thru a letter-writing phase. She was on diet pills which at the time were easy to get. (1970s)

Although she was seeing a counselor, she was terminated from her job for tardiness, missing work, poor performance, and disruptive behavior.
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Did anyone think to consider the effects of the diet pills?
Some people can get downright squirrely because many of those things are nothing more than speed.
 
There used to be a diet pill named fen-phen. It was later taken off the market as a diet pill because it caused heart valve problems.
It can still be bought under a different name in health food and other pill stores and even Wal-Mart.

Druggies use it to come down from their high or after using a speed drug. What’s that tell you?
 
911 said:
There used to be a diet pill named fen-phen. It was later taken off the market as a diet pill because it caused heart valve problems.
It can still be bought under a different name in health food and other pill stores and even Wal-Mart.

Druggies use it to come down from their high or after using a speed drug. What’s that tell you?
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It tells me what I already know: it's not a good idea to put foreign substances into one's system.
 
JaniceM said:
It tells me what I already know: it's not a good idea to put foreign substances into one's system.
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This includes almost any drug,medicine, presciption even , unless 'needed' or thought to be 'needed' until another help is discovered 'from the past' - i.e. before corporations took over.

Robert59 said:
She will not go to a mental doctor to see if she is.
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Good for her. Those quacks hurt more people by far than they cure. If someone needs one for a time, until they discover better way, so be it , for a while.
JaniceM said:
Did anyone think to consider the effects of the diet pills?
Some people can get downright squirrely because many of those things are nothing more than speed.
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"We are what we eat." Very old saying/proverb. "Food is out medicine." also. but the corporations /greed/ prevents the public from knowing this unless they find out for themselves, from family, friends or even from the Creator.

There was no disease called "man......." until the political/medical authorities created it. Before then, and look up if it is still available,
see "pellagra" and the obvious way it was 'cured' easily.
 

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