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I need help

  • 15-08-2012 9:21pm
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi.

    As the title suggests, I need help. I've long suspected (for about 8-10 years now) that I suffer from bipolar disorder, but never got help. I was either too young to realise help was available, couldn't afford it, or couldn't find time for it.

    In the last few years I've gone through quite a number of traumatic events which have acted as catalysts for my mood swings. My Dad has only passed away very recently (a few months) at a young enough age. (Don't want to give too much info away as I don't want anyone to recognise me, but he was aged between 50-60) He was one of my best friends. Not many people can say that about their relationship with their Dad, but me and my Dad genuinely were great friends and went for a drink together every week.

    As I write I am in the grips of yet another depressive phase. I have had many over the years. I am tired all the time, irritable, angry, my sleeping is interrupted by nightmares and vivid dreams, I have become withdrawn, have zero sex drive, have just lost the general ability to feel anything it seems. Me and my girlfriend have broken up because of it. It's just a big empty space of nothingness.

    I have just recently started a new job after spending a stint unemployed. I should be delighted ey? Nothing. At this moment in time it seems like one of the worse episodes. One of the more prolonged episodes anyway. It is truly debilitating and I'm afraid it will impact negatively on my performance in my new job. For what it's worth, there are other members of my immediate family who are diagnosed and prescribed anti-depressant medications.

    I recognise that I need some form of help but I don't know what to do. Up until employment I didn't really have the money to go see my GP. Now that I've started this job I don't know if I have the time. I don't think he works weekends at all. And I don't think I'd be comfortable speaking to anyone other than my GP.

    I just feel lost and a bit hopeless to be honest.

    And as I said, this comes and goes in swings, some last a few moths, some last a few weeks. After which I do occasionally go through periods of mania and heightened senses etc. but I always come back down with a crash eventually.

    Has anyone been experiencing anything similar? How did you get by? Has anyone else any advice?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Taltos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,830 ✭✭✭✭Taltos


    Hi OP

    I am really sorry but no-one here is qualified to offer you the advice or support you truly need. Per site rules I therefore have to close this thread.

    Please go and see your GP or another doctor as soon as you can, they can always get your medical history from your GP if needed. Worst case call your GP and ask for an out of hours consultation - talk to them over the phone and express how desperate you are to talk to them.

    Do what you can to get help, don't just survive or hope that the current episode will end soon - pick up the phone later today and call your GP for the help you deserve.

    Wishing you all the best
    Taltos


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