Bipolar II - (Beyond The Unhappy Diagnosis And Into A Happy Life)
Informational and positive look on the hard diagnosis. Lifting the stigma, finding that you are not alone in all this.
The book is a personal journey, finding what the disease is all about, managing the difficult moments of depressions and hypo-mania episodes until a stable effect is reached, the so-called remission. The author also shares her successes, talents and everything she has learned in an optimistic and positive way.
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Evelyn Tomson
Bipolar II
Beyond The Unhappy Diagnosis And Into A Happy Life
Copyright © 2021 - Evelyn Tomson
Publisher: Tektime
Cover back:
“We all have the right to be happy, married or single, with kids or without, with a disease or without”.
What is BAR all about?
I started a research about BAR years ago in 2005 with nothing much to find in the Internet. Only that it was a disease that is quite difficult to diagnose, but at least it is curable, or better say treated with success. Today in 2021 there is much more information freely available, but a few people dare openly share they have it. Still the stigma that goes along with it is strong, because it is a mental illness. Nowadays doctors talk of 3 types of BAR (Bipolar Affective Disorder): Bipolar I, Bipolar II and Cyclothymic disorder. Here I am only giving you the names and the top 3 sites I found the latest information from. These are:
www.spychiatry.org/patients-families/bipolar
www.helpguide.org/bipolar-disorder-signs-and-symptoms
www.mayoclinic.org/disease-conditions/bipolar-disorder/signs-and-symptoms
Why is it bipolar? Because there are 2 ends of the pole: one is called Mania, the other end is Depression. When you are in Mania you do not need much sleep and you are very active, feeling elated, full of energy and ideas, often creative and you spend your days almost without fatigue. It may seem to be very positive to an on-looker. But a person who is Bipolar may accept some ideas of his as pre-dominant and act according to that. He/she might take an illusionary scenario as real, for example he might feel as being watched or pursued. And if he does not stop to rest and slow down, or is unable to decide which part of these ideas are untrue – he may end up in hospital.
The other end of the pole is – melancholia or depression. You lose interest in your job, your life, family and friends. You have low energy, low self-esteem and if this goes on for longer than a month you might be heading for depression. Depressions can be mild or severe ones, depending on each case, individually. And they do not go away by themselves. You need to consult a doctor and try more than one medication sometimes, until you and your doctor find one that works for you and can bring you back to normal – meaning you can work, live your life and even enjoy things.
| Severe maniaHypomania (mild to moderate mania)Normal, balanced moodMild to moderate depressionSevere depression |
So we can differentiate the following 5 conditions, according to helpguide.org:
The good news though is that many talented people are like that…mainly singers and actors but Mariah Carey – the famous singer – openly spoke about it in an article I found in 2018.
I myself am not a singer, but I like singing Karaoke songs. It happens once or twice a year and especially when I go to Wonderland in summer time.
In search of what is wrong with me – I read a lot of books about self-help and improvement and I can say that we all have the right to be happy. So I searched for happiness and I found it. In my work and in my friends circle in my home country and in the country I prefer to call Wonderland. This was my starting point: We all have the right to be happy, married or single, with kids or without, with a disease or without.
Here is the best place to mention the books I found helpful throughout my life, books that make you think outside of the box, lift your spirits up and help in all possible ways.
1 Dale Carnegy: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
2 Dr. Joseph Murphy: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
3 Eckhart Tolle: The Power of Now
4 Phonda Burn: The Secret
5 Brenda Barnaby: Beyond the Secret. Happiness is possible
6 Osho: The orange book – about meditation
7 The works of Bayinsa Dunov , the books of Mirzakarim Norbekov
8 Deepak Chopra: The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire
9 N. C. Lazarev: Diangnistics of Karma – this last one I found heavy and difficult to understand.
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Since yearly childhood I knew my life will be associated with English. I was at the age of 9 or 10. I lived a happy life in a country behind the iron curtain. But apart from the strong feeling that my life will be associated with English I also knew I was very fragile, too sensitive for this world, taking things personal and later working too much…
My 1st Episode of depression
According to statistics the first episode usually occurs up to the age of 25. (National Institute of Mental Health, USA). And each 1 in 100 persons is bipolar. (irsiluma.It)
My first meeting with the disease was at the age of 23. I had fallen in love with an intelligent man but he was not free. So I was only an affair for him and naturally things had to end. But his partner found out and spoke to one of my parents. She did not ask me how I felt. Nor did she take my side. And soon the events escalated so much that I decided and tried to commit a suicide. Luckily, as it was mainly a cry for help, I had chosen pills and alcohol for my attempt. And so they found me on time and saved me. I will always be grateful to my dad for he was the man who found me. So before I knew what Mania is I was facing a Depressive episode. Horrible time, the emergency unit had to report the attempt and after my initial treatment I had to be treated for my mental problem.
