Bipolar Disorder and Tegretol

When I was on Tegretol, I had a lot of trouble with my eyes. I lost my depth of perception! I actually wore an eye patch for awhile in order to walk without tripping.

 So, if you’re on Tegretol and have trouble with your eyes. It’s normal. Not cool, but normal.

 Julie

Bipolar Disorder and Work – reader question

bipolarhappens.com reader question

Julie,

When you say you have trouble finding a comfortable place to work, do you mean creating good physical surroundings? Finding an appropriate setting? Balancing solitude with working with people? Just curious.

Hi!

It’s all of those things. I guess my main problem is brain fog when it comes to focusing on thing I have to [...]

Bipolar Weight Gain

Bipolar Weight Gain
I gained a lot of weight last year when I was on Serequel. I basically became an eating machine! I’ve been through this so many times. I’m mad at myself because once the Serequel was out of my system. I kept eating.

I could have stopped. I didn’t. So now I have more weight [...]

bipolarhappens.com Reader Letter

bipolarhappens.com Reader Comment

I recently received an email from a woman who plays the fiddle!  This is a long exchange, but I think the information is interesting, informative and encouraging!

Here is her note:

Hi Julie,

In a week I am teaching at a fiddle camp and have been struggling to get well for quite awhile (too much fiddling [...]

Bipolar Disorder and Work

I’ve had trouble working for about a week now. That’s nothing new- what’s odd is that I haven’t been depressed- just restless and a bit unhappy. Wait! That is depression!

I’m using all of my techniques to end this non productive cycle.

My goal today is making it to the library to work on a [...]

It’s 2 AM!!!!!!

It’s two am!!! I had caffeine today and this is my punishment. If I didn’t have bipolar disorder, it would not be a big deal. I’d just sleep more the next day or make up for it the next night.

That is not how it works for me. Because I have pretty severe rapid cycling, [...]

Get it Done When You’re Depressed

Get it Done When You’re Depressed

I had an idea today- and I can’t believe I didn’t think of it before. I’m going to put a copy of Get it Done When You’re Depressed on the passenger seat of my car= so that when I’m driving around and can’t FOCUS or GET TO WORK or MAKE [...]