What Are the Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder? Bipolar disorder causes dramatic mood swings-from overly "high" and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of normal mood in between. Severe changes in energy and behavior go along with these changes in mood. The periods of highs and lows are called episodes of mania and depression. Signs and symptoms of mania (or a manic episode) include: Increased energy, activity, and restlessness Excessively "high," overly good, euphoric mood Extreme irritability Racing thoughts and talking very fast, jumping from one idea to another Distractibility, can't concentrate well Little sleep needed Unrealistic beliefs in one's abilities and powers Poor judgment Spending sprees A lasting period of behavior that is different from usual Increased sexual drive Abuse of drugs, particularly cocaine, alcohol, and sleeping medications Provocative, intrusive, or aggressive behavior Denial that anything is wrong A manic episode is diagnosed if elevated mood occurs with three or more of the other symptoms most of the day, nearly every day, for 1 week or longer. If the mood is irritable, four additional symptoms must be present. Signs and symptoms of depression (or a depressive episode) include: Lasting sad, anxious, or empty mood Feelings of hopelessness or pessimism Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, or helplessness Loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed, including sex Decreased energy, a feeling of fatigue or of being "slowed down" Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions Restlessness or irritability Sleeping too much, or can't sleep Change in appetite and/or unintended weight loss or gain Chronic pain or other persistent bodily symptoms that are not caused by physical illness or injury Thoughts of death or suicide, or suicide attempts Too many Americans are living with bipolar disorder and are unaware of the illness and the toll it may be taking on their lives, work and relationships,†said Michael Faenza, MSSW, NMHA president and CEO. “We hope this campaign will reach the millions of individuals and families who are impacted by bipolar disorder and offer them a way to get life-saving information and help.†Joining with NMHA to launch the campaign and share his experience with bipolar disorder is actor Maurice Benard, who plays Sonny Corinthos on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. “For the last 17 years, I've fought a very personal battle with bipolar disorder,†noted Benard. “Only after I was diagnosed was I finally able to manage my illness and work to lead a more positive, productive life. By partnering with NMHA, I hope to encourage those who may be affected by bipolar disorder, as well as their friends and families, to learn more about the illness and take the steps needed to win their struggle with the illness grasscity read this! This is seriouse and has helped my life. Marujane is cool and all but isnt the last resort. I know this is heavy but can help a lot of people in fear. Go see a doctor and he can help you.
what? i can't speak for everybody here but i know damn well i didn't "turn to marijuana because my life was distraught and i had nowhere else to turn." i do it occasionally when i want to have some fun. i have jesus in my life, maybe you should get some. i'm holding back from typing a 1-page ass whooping. all you had to do was leave off your last 3 sentences.
you know when doing these drugs, its really stupid? I mean, if you can comprehend that these drugs are pointelss in life and are very MAN made, then you can comprhend that these drugs you are talking about are pointless and or losers. Sastistically, 99% losers of life are taking drugs. Look at the most successful people in life EVRER. They mor than likly had "a learning disability or wasnt smart in math" They didnt do drugsa and were very educated with themselves. When people live life and amount to nothing contribute more to our growing population of drugged out losers. So if your happy and think your doing the tright thing about taking these drugs and smoking bud till your FUCKED up, then you will contribue more to the "less than $15 an hour" work force and responsibility. Thanks to everyone and sites like these that make our world more shity and opinioanted to hell. I nkwo im right and 99% of people will say Im right but only deny it and go back to their worthless habbits. The world is beautiful, only if one makes it beautiful. You only live life once and people are only getting fucked up the 60's were really cool... Riots and so much unpredicTABILITY. So much unproductive bull shit. Good job, music was so awsome! It really got into my soul. When it was just bob dylan singing and really thought he was just playoing music when a bunch of high kids thought it was touching their nonexsistant souls. bob syland even knows whats going on. your hero! Bob dyaln just wanted to play music but became a pop culture riot for being a hippy and a druggy, when in fact he was not. Good job. i smoked for 5 years and had a good life. I then noticed what was and now I wan to speak out my opinions. Your ipionions are are smoking pot and makking it a ritual or a analytical knowledge but what really is behind the drugs are usless information for the HUAMN brain. Dont believ in anything. Your just going to die with your wife behind or after. I dont know what happenes when you die ro neither does ANYONE ELSE! NOBODY does. eligion is bullshit and so is thet people around me. Very Very stupid. Fuck off everyone cause you know Im right. You fucked up in our world, im living in it, so you created these outlandish opionions and beliefs. Cristiantiy and the devil worshiping iditots. You all have some mental disorder. Life was fucked a long time ago and most people cant realize it cause they are trapped with misbeliefs or beliefs. Its funny about this thread cause it will be delted by some GS mod who thinks its too much, when your all smoking buds and talking about usless information for the mind numbing brains you all have. I used to post so much on this thread, then I realized how much you all need help, like I did. Now Im very Successfull and I only want to help our world from buring down to the end. Secure yourself in smoking bud and over anylyzing the whole situation. Creating a whole culture of morons and uneducated people Or educated peop about smoking MJ. Some guy would say somthing about the 18/24 24/24 wrong and only you would attack and call a moron cause he thought it was a purple specturm for veg growth. You all know where im coming from. People that are mean to other skin colors and who are over religious. Blcoking point of views and who are not truly "down to earth", WHATEVER THAT MEANS....... You are the norm and people who smoke and drink are the norm. The norm to me is a bunch of fools caught in reality and succumbing to the belief that this is what life is all about. "I can do this if I want to", "I can be a whore if I want to" "I do meth cause I want to and I dont care about your opionion." "I like jessicas simpson over brytney spears" You all talk about breaking free and smoking bud when the most unsephisticated culutres smoked bud. Which in return you have a sophisticated culture dooing lines and a unsopshisticated cukure smoking bud and MIXED into early America, which created a whole mess of SHIT, and now we have charleton heston which was a actor in old cornt movies now is a celbrated gun guy. Who gives a fuck. The people who dont agree are just too cemented and cant see NO side. Its all about seeing NO side and just living, but impossible with today's standards and since the day humands became "civilized". I wonder why there were crazy people trying to get groups of people to kill themselves. It all makes sense. Life is life. Your born and then you die. If god exsist, it wouldnt be hard to go to haven cause it wasnt our falt that we were born in a world that it was too hard to make any dicision. Go left or right. Do retards go to heaven? Or do people with a disablity who dont have the chance to make up their mid cause they cant think about going to church, do they go to heaven or does god just give them a free pass? Its truly remarkable how the human brain can dictate such a deep thought about how life should be treated and "respected". When we were first roaming the planet, we were in search of food and drink. Now we are in search of our favorite TV show and how we should make outselves better in a social envirment. We will only make ourselves worse and suicidal by creating more monsters for people who know the truth. email me at illcidftp@yahoo.com <mailto:illcidftp@yahoo.com> for any questions, cause you all need help if your posting more then a 10 posts on this site. AND THATS A FACT!
my point is, 99% of people who smoke everyday live UNPRoDUCTIVE lives. "Unproductive lives", you know what that sounds like? ALl the people living a life of nothing. Just people getting married and paying money to the government. Nice life to be born in. Why? "Its hard for me to live life cause of what life truly is", you know what I mean?
look at your post... yea, looks uneducated to me. you spend way to much time typing your absolute shit, and you dont see whats really important in life. its happiness, something that we are all striving for, so dont judge anyone on how they persue that. who are you to judge all of these people? 99% of all statistics are absolute bullshit.
Its funny what you just said. Your basically saying you depend on weed for hapiness. "something that we are all striving for". We shouldnt be born in a world that we shoudl STRIVE for hapiness. My judgement is based upon fact about life. Life is bullshit and the comment you replied alsoe dctaeds you might have been offended, and some anger came out. Meaning your not happy. Persue that.
Everyone needs to channel all the things that is real and give up. Your only giving up really slowly by your misfortunate judgement calls. Just let go and free yourself from any pain or happiness by siezing to exsist. I just wish I was uneducated enough to see what happiness or saddness is really... I wish this life never exsisted unfortunatly.
people have always had to work for happiness, its not easy, it never has been. my anger was dictated by the attacks that you brought to our peaceful city. I do not depend on weed for happiness, but it helps me relaxe after a hard days work. marijuana spawns creativity and love, not numb unhealthy minds. go somewhere else to preach your lies, we have heard the ignorance before.
Emerson - Opium addict George Washington - pot-head Edgar Allen Poe - Opium addict / Alcoholic Bill Gates - Pot-head Churchill - Alcoholic You have the nerve to call us uneducated losers? Look at yourself, you can't even piece together a decent paragraph! Yet you presume to have the sagacity, to make a sweeping generalization of every person who posts on this forum? Your first post looks like a sales pitch for an anti-depressant pharmaceutical company In short, take your generalizations and go fuck yourelf dude. Don't presume to come here and diagnose people you've never met, or surmise their intelligence. You only make yourself look like an ass. By the way, learn to spell you ignorant fuck!
maybe you should light up a nice spliff and wrap your mind around how beatiful this world is. its incredible, you never cease to realise the subtle complexity.
You depned on Mj for love and creativity. You cant do it on your own? Also, I just stated this opinion for people to read not to reply. When people reply like that one guy who was saying I spell retarded and and stuff like that, I dont see love or creativity from that guy at all. Could he just say that to himself and not actaully take the time in a reply? Or anyone in that case? I only sense weakness coming from all the replies. Im sorry im bad at spelling, but the personal attack shows frustration. Your all hypocrites... and being a hypocrit is just a plain dumb, stupid, and one track minded.
I dont depend on marijuana for anything. In none of my posts have i said anything to mislead a reader to believe that. youre not seeing love or creativity from me because you dont deserve any. im actually full of love and creativity. the fact that you dislike life shows that you are weak. we all are, there is nothing wrong with that, it is human. you started the personal attacks, we are just simply playing at your level.
I'm a hypocrite for sticking up for myself? I depend on MJ for relaxation, yes. I depend on food to live, I depend on books to learn, whats the problem here? The fact is, your demonizing something that has nothing to do with you. You meant for your post only to be read? What are you the gastapo? Don't take this shut-up and listen attitude with me! If I have to read your opinions then your going to have to wade through mine! This is my body, I will ingest what I please! I don't make sweeping generalizations against you, nor do I wish to dictate what you do or how you do it. So what exactly do you believe gives you the right to dictate morality? We seem to be getting off track though, didn't you come in here to make a sales pitch for anti-depressant pharmaceuticals?
well if you could help me, I used to be "illcid". Im 19 and have a problem of my "thinking". My frineds say I will be a success or I could be a failure. I seem to have a 50% chance of the two sides. I seem to think I have a mental illness which is very scary to me. I seem to blame a lot on people and I truly try and help myself every minute. I slip somtimes and want to rant. I seem to think and see life a lot different than most people, which is a very scary thing to have. I just wish sombody to talk to me and be a friend for once. I put a lot of pressure on myself and I really blame weed on doing this to me. I might have smoked laced weed as well. Im in the middle of being one person going to school and fighting to be a success or having a normal 9-5 job working at burgerking kind and keeping myself happy by taking drugs. There is only two ways. I just think the other way is just not good and makes or soicety the way it is. Wal-mart generation. Fuck that shit! That is what is truly taking man kind and throwing it away for .99 cents on the dollar menu. I just dont seem to think it is possible for me to live in a life like this anymore. I have a very high IQ but low academics. Who knows... sorry guys for the bull shit
If you want someone to talk to you and be your friend you're going to have to learn to try to stop judging people. We all do it, so you won't be able to completely quit, but you shouldn't come to a pot forum to pick a fight with stoners. I kind of understand what you mean by 50% chance for success 50% chance for failure. Although you should learn to make up your own mind about such things instead of asking your friends. 19 was a tough age, especially for me,(I'm 20) what helped me through that year was books, and salvia. Before you think I was addicted, I only did it 3 or 4 times. (It's not something you want to do a lot, and not addictive at all) Books and drugs allow me to look at things from different perspectives, I like that. There is nothing wrong with tokin a bowl every once in a while. Your right, you don't want to become some stoner burnout, who sits in his parents basement and gets stoned all the time. I sat in my townhouse and played videogames for 3 or 4 months, most of the time not stoned. (maybe smoking once or twice a week. It's not smoking weed that's the problem, it's sitting around doing nothing with your lfe that's the problem. So you can't demonize weed for somones lack of motivation, I know non stoners who have no motivation. In my opinion the best thing to do is find out what you like and learn about it, read more books, this will not only expand your horizons, it will also help your spelling and grammar. (this isn't a put-down or anything just a fact) If you're having trouble figuring out what you want in life, try out saliva, it helped me. One of the most amazing things I figured out when I was 19 was that I was in control of my life. FINALLY!! I'm ashamed it took me that long. I also had a high IQ and low GPA, but you see, if it has always been like this. You have always had little or no motivation. You didn't want to work to get good grades. You probably passed high school because you made A's on tests, you probably never did your homework.(I'm actually describing myself and assuming you're the same way, excuse me if I'm wrong) The point to all this is, you can't blame a persons lack of motivation on weed, you are in control of your life, so figure out what it is you want and go get it.
Hasn't anyone ever seen the episode of futurama where fry has to live with that monkey who wore the hat that allowed him to think and speak like a human? Sure, he was highly intelligent.. but it made him depressed. Weed takes off my "smart" hat. Im dumber, but Im way happier! And like we all know here at GC, life is all about attaining happiness. Sure, I might end up being a failure in a neo-social sense- but if Im happy, then I've achieved the greatest amount of success imaginable.
right on Grim. I think that pot can lead to a horrible life style, IF you allow it to do so. If you get soooo caught up in just "getting high all the time" , being happy isnt going to feel the same as being happy when your not high, and NOTHING is going to feel the same as when your high... you start getting used to how things are high, and you start to unlike not being high, and it continues from there. Im in that stoner/burnout stage right now myself, and i too realize that im not getting anywhere by doing this. I moved out of home at 18 after highschool, and started toking EVERY night for a whole year. Months at a time exclusivley out of a bong... now im living back at home and feel like life is just going no where, but it is. Im a Supervisor at a Subway. Not that its CEO of fucking AOL or anything, but it shows im a hard worker, even with a bowl of weed out of a bong everyday of my life. I have a wonderful (and hot with big ol boobies ) girlfriend of 2 years who knows of my lifestyle, and always lets me know that I do a great job of not letting it contol me. So anyways, what I've been trying to do to "grow up" and "slow down" is simpily smoke less. Instead of every night after work, only do it on days off, or the week ends. Start eating better. What you eat will make you feel alot better, as well as exercise. Hell, maybe i'll start finding myself happier. Maybe soon i'll just evolve out of using. But if you dont set your self up to stop, quiting cold turkey isnt going to be easy, expecially if it has been a lifestyle of yours for 5 years. If you can continue your stay your going to find we are all a bunch of caring people. Compaired to other boards there arent many "flamers" at all, and we are all VERY understanding.
and to be completely honest with you, i found myself saying yes to ALL of those manic ones, but no to ALL of those depression ones... so am I crazy? Pot makes me realize that it is completely stupid to EVER be upset about ANYTHING. If your taking everything so damn serious your NEVER going to be happy. I enjoy sitting back, smoking a bowl, and laughing off how stupid it was to get soo frustrated at work over something you couldnt control... The next day you probably arent going to get as mad.... and if you still get mad, its because your subconcious KNOWS your going to smoke a bowl if you get mad, so you get mad. Its easy to give up on school work to go out and get high, and get frustrated. Instead of blaming the weed, blame yourself for going out. Stay in and smoke the bowl, dont go out. Whew, keep your head up and do what you feel nessicary. If you dont wanna be pursuaded to smoke more, and are truely content with what you are now then i TOTALLY understand man. Good for you i say, but its sucks to see a veteran, so to speak if you are telling the truth, come back and say it fucked up their lives and that we are all losers for smokeing and doing drugs. There are a lot of genuine people on here though, dont classify everyone on here as the same. Id like to hear more about your life and your smoking experiences and so forth, because just like I said i dont want to classify you or label you as a 5 year burnout... maybe your the guy who has smoked a bowl a month for 5 years and found no good outta it.... ya know? anyone else followin me here?