Jo,
I have about 3 relatives with bipolar, my father, my aunt, and my darling 14 year old son. I always used to feel so alone and unable to help them. Sometimes in the middle of the night, I would wake up to the sound of my son crying, my heart ached because i could not help him. Seeing my boy just sit there, sobbing, and all i could do was give him medication.
I remember the days when my father used to come home drunk and depressed, it scared me and mother, i never understood. Mother never told me what exactly was wrong, so i just feared him and hid in misunderstanding. My guilt was amplified just last year, on February 2nd, when my father committed suicide. Causing me to go down a spiral of the reality of just how hard this can disease can be. I began to worry about my boy, who with the recent loss had become very depressed, writing suicide notes and putting himself in so much danger that he had to be hospitalized. One day when i was visiting my son, the woman from the next room came in, her mother suffered from the disease also and she was visiting him. When i told her what had happened and how i felt, she gave me your site.
Jo, i cannot thank you enough! Your site has helped me to understand and care for my son and his problems. I now understand that even though i may not be able to fully understand what is bothering him, just being there helps. He is recovering and started playing baseball again, and i am so proud of him. Thank you so much!
Love and Support,
~Sarah~
Karah Said,
Jo,
I just wanted to let you know that as someone without this disorder it has been really hard to understand my sister, who is afflicted with this illness. I hate to admit it, but I have always held her to the same standard I hold myself, and I shook my head at every fall. In my ignorance, I didn’t get her.
I am in training to become a high school teacher. I was recently asked to research this illness to present teaching tips to my peers. Although the internet is full of websites with every factoid and statistic imaginable, I have not found a better insight into the soul of someone with Bipolar than I found here. In all seriousness, I think I understand my sister and her many struggles better than I ever have.
Thank you for opening yourself up so that we all might learn something. I know I have.
God bless,
Karah
Dale Said,
Thanks for the video. It made a grown man cry. That video is me. Thanks for letting me know I’m not alone.
paulina Said,
Im going in the blue side of my bipolar dissorder, and this video made me feel not alone tks so much
I feel so alone because Im living in a country that is not main and also I dont speak the language, so many things go in my hear like bubles and then disapear, is really hard to explain but my brain never stops and i just can focus or remember things. Im a mess!!! and in a manic episode I went totally crazy feelt my head was going to explote and i did not have ari in my longs, feelt really dizzy and then atackt the person I love most my boyfriend, I punch him and I broke hes lip! I feel so bad about this that know Im so depress and I DONT know what to do
Chasity Said,
Jo, I also suffer from bipolar. I am sitting here at home feeling so down and I feel like I can’t snap put of it. I don’t want to go out because I don’t want to be seen and I don’t want to see anybody. So I sit here trying to think of something besides sleep to help me through this. I try to play games on the computer or watch a funny movie but none of it helps. I was browsing youtube and I thought hey I’ll look up bipolar, and I came across your video. It is EXACTLY how I am. I am so lonely and scared and sick of all this! I am on medication and it seemed like it was working for a while but now it’s like everything is back to the same ways again. I hate going to the doctor because the clinic I goto in my hometown everyone thinks that all the people that live here are pills heads. Everytime I go in there and tell them that I have these extreme depression days maybe weeks they say well we dont prescribe any nerve medications like narcotics here but lets change your meds again and again and again, and I AM SO SICK OF IT!!! I feel like I cry out and out and out and there is nothing or no one there to help me. I try to help myself but I just keep getting into a bigger hole. I am tired of feeling like that this is it, this is the way that my life is going to be. I don’t want to be like this forever, I can’t…this is not who I want to be. I don’t really know you but right now you are the next best thing to a friend that I got. I know you understand me…. Thanks for the video upload
Jo,
I have about 3 relatives with bipolar, my father, my aunt, and my darling 14 year old son. I always used to feel so alone and unable to help them. Sometimes in the middle of the night, I would wake up to the sound of my son crying, my heart ached because i could not help him. Seeing my boy just sit there, sobbing, and all i could do was give him medication.
I remember the days when my father used to come home drunk and depressed, it scared me and mother, i never understood. Mother never told me what exactly was wrong, so i just feared him and hid in misunderstanding. My guilt was amplified just last year, on February 2nd, when my father committed suicide. Causing me to go down a spiral of the reality of just how hard this can disease can be. I began to worry about my boy, who with the recent loss had become very depressed, writing suicide notes and putting himself in so much danger that he had to be hospitalized. One day when i was visiting my son, the woman from the next room came in, her mother suffered from the disease also and she was visiting him. When i told her what had happened and how i felt, she gave me your site.
Jo, i cannot thank you enough! Your site has helped me to understand and care for my son and his problems. I now understand that even though i may not be able to fully understand what is bothering him, just being there helps. He is recovering and started playing baseball again, and i am so proud of him. Thank you so much!
Love and Support,
~Sarah~
Jo,
I just wanted to let you know that as someone without this disorder it has been really hard to understand my sister, who is afflicted with this illness. I hate to admit it, but I have always held her to the same standard I hold myself, and I shook my head at every fall. In my ignorance, I didn’t get her.
I am in training to become a high school teacher. I was recently asked to research this illness to present teaching tips to my peers. Although the internet is full of websites with every factoid and statistic imaginable, I have not found a better insight into the soul of someone with Bipolar than I found here. In all seriousness, I think I understand my sister and her many struggles better than I ever have.
Thank you for opening yourself up so that we all might learn something. I know I have.
God bless,
Karah
Thanks for the video. It made a grown man cry. That video is me. Thanks for letting me know I’m not alone.
Im going in the blue side of my bipolar dissorder, and this video made me feel not alone tks so much
I feel so alone because Im living in a country that is not main and also I dont speak the language, so many things go in my hear like bubles and then disapear, is really hard to explain but my brain never stops and i just can focus or remember things. Im a mess!!! and in a manic episode I went totally crazy feelt my head was going to explote and i did not have ari in my longs, feelt really dizzy and then atackt the person I love most my boyfriend, I punch him and I broke hes lip! I feel so bad about this that know Im so depress and I DONT know what to do
Jo, I also suffer from bipolar. I am sitting here at home feeling so down and I feel like I can’t snap put of it. I don’t want to go out because I don’t want to be seen and I don’t want to see anybody. So I sit here trying to think of something besides sleep to help me through this. I try to play games on the computer or watch a funny movie but none of it helps. I was browsing youtube and I thought hey I’ll look up bipolar, and I came across your video. It is EXACTLY how I am. I am so lonely and scared and sick of all this! I am on medication and it seemed like it was working for a while but now it’s like everything is back to the same ways again. I hate going to the doctor because the clinic I goto in my hometown everyone thinks that all the people that live here are pills heads. Everytime I go in there and tell them that I have these extreme depression days maybe weeks they say well we dont prescribe any nerve medications like narcotics here but lets change your meds again and again and again, and I AM SO SICK OF IT!!! I feel like I cry out and out and out and there is nothing or no one there to help me. I try to help myself but I just keep getting into a bigger hole. I am tired of feeling like that this is it, this is the way that my life is going to be. I don’t want to be like this forever, I can’t…this is not who I want to be. I don’t really know you but right now you are the next best thing to a friend that I got. I know you understand me…. Thanks for the video upload
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