Diet can sometimes be a significant factor.
In some people, wheat and sugar can exacerbate bipolar symptoms.
Also, caffeine is a powerful stimulants that can disrupt the minds delicate balance.

television is also something to avoid. And shitty music with disruptive vibrations.

--Metta

[bigganjabud]

When I'm in my hyper stages I'm about a million miles an hour

I have bad patches aswell

I'd suggest oils/shatters/bho for the hyper times and a lot of positive thoughts and maybe a read of the secret
At the low times any time you wanna talk hit me up I'm usually around somewhere

Welcome to ic and hope to hear from you soon amigo

[Pinball Wizard]

my nephew is bipolar. don't feed him brownies after midnight

[Fly by Night]

What can I help you with?

[shithawk420]

Well,im 27 and in the same boat.only thing i can say for sure is dont start drinking everyday.trust me.

[CoCoSativas]

Originally Posted by hermdog

I'm 27 and have just learned what I've known all along, my entire immediate family suffers from bipolar as do I.

The biggest problem in my life has been trying to find someone who understands me, but is most comfortably living in depression rather than manic.
So many of my friends and acquaintances are my polar opposite, I can never help their depression and they don't understand my explosive manic days.

I've fallen into rapid cycling for the first time as an adult, while I enjoy being the life of the party and all the confidence I literally burn out after a day or two and push friends away in hopes depression settles in again. At least depressed I lack the motivation to get myself in trouble.

No amount of indica is putting me to sleep anymore.
Growing and the patients that rely on me has become my life.
I need a kind soul that can give me a little guidance.

Try some sativa hybrids. I'm a total asshole without some type of sativa high. I can garentee you won't feel depressed after you smoke them. plus they are more challenging to grow and satisfying and lots of them you will fall right asleep from the burnout lol I spend a extra hour or two a day napping these days...

Get involved with the community here lots of people can inspire you. I turn 26 in February so I'm your age and can relate. Anyway there are alot of kind people here who were kind to me and inspired me to pass on the same kindness. It's made me remember the plant is not just dope to smoke and money on trees it means so much more

Good luck man lots of kind caring people here. Reach out and there's many who can't wait to hold out their hand and help pull you back up. I know be a use I've done it, members of this community helped keep me going through a period of misery from back pain which made me pretty depressed. Never feel bad calling out for help, around these parts lots are listening

[shithawk420]

Good post CoCo

[CoCoSativas]

Originally Posted by shithawk420

Good post CoCo

Thanks shitty...

Yeah man the only ones who can really change our lives is us, though sometimes inspiration comes and makes you look at things a different way. This place and the people inspire me. I'm working on my attitude

[Croissant]

Originally Posted by hermdog

Your Freud quote, Croissant was actually the needle that broke the camel's back in my realization.
Both my mother and I are the depressive sort, my father and brother love to quote Freud and have used his ideas to justify physical violence and mental manipulation against us my entire life, all along thinking their manic personality is the norm.

Meanwhile I just wanted to not be around people that are overly self center, and have so much energy that take it out on others.

Ugh, sorry to hear about ur dadbro. I am a depressive also, I am not a classic manic depressive, but would probably be considered bipolar type 2 or 2.5 or 3. The point is I am not bipolar and you may or may not be but in that link they talk about how bipolar kind of became the catch all diagnoses once depression medication stopped having patents on them as a way to direct people towards big pharma meds that have patents.

My brother was a fucking piece of shit to me so I can relate to that. Thing is though a professional is really the way to go if you can afford it. A lot of the self help stuff is based on self policing to experience oneself in a way deemed societaly acceptable which I think is nonsense and a form of narcissitic delusion.

You are on the right path though looking for someone else to connect with to work through your stuff, just please for your own sake go to someone trained to guide you through it. When you are in a vulnerable state reaching and out someone that is psychotic may seem like they have all the answers and be attractive as a person to connect to. I am warning you I have seen it before ; on here even and recently.

I recommend you find yourself a psychoanalyst preferably from a Lacanian orientation and expect to dedicate several years to analysis. There are no quick fixes or shortcuts as those are only forms of repression and self policing.

[Ph-patrol]

Just want to throw out there that all my grow work has strictly been in the pursuit of finding positive and therapeutic medicine for my wife's Bipolar 2.
The strains that I grow have been a huge difference in the quality of her life.
But Bipolar is a multi dimensional illness that takes multi strains. But sometimes not smoking for a certain period of times is the answer.
This is just a fragment of dealing with the illness.

Take care PH