Living with bipolar is like living on a never ending roller coaster. Sure the moods can be tamed, controlled for significant periods of time. Even the wildest roller coasters level off at times.
Bipolar is more than a mood disorder. It’s a relationship disorder. It’s an organ failure disorder. It’s a sleep disorder.
Just when you think you’ve got the mania and depression under control, you find you’ve lost friendships, some forever. You want to work harder at rebuilding friendships after the number of doctors increases because the very essential medications keeping you sane are slowly destroying the rest of your body-- and who wants to be alone at such times? All the while, sleep evades or drags you down until soon your moods begin a creeping shift-- continuing on the roller coaster ride of this bipolar life.
'Til next time,
Arla
