Signs that you might need some help for bipolar disorder depression:
– You have not been out of the house in a few days.
– Getting out of bed is difficult and on some days impossible.
– You’re not eating, brushing your teeth or shaving.
– The phone rings, but you CAN’T answer it.
– You’re binge watching TV shows and you feel really, really guilty about it.
People are worried about you.
Your regular self leaves the house, brushes his teeth, feeds the animals, goes to work, interacts with the world and looks forward to life. That person has disappeared.
Depression is INSIDIOUS. It creeps up on us and day by day sucks the life out of our lives. We must fight this by taking action. Right now, if the above describes you, please know you are not alone. Depression is a nasty, walking dead succubus that you can fight.
If you have bipolar disorder, it’s normal to have depression. If you have depression, it’s normal to have the above symptoms.
What do you need to do right now to get help? Answer that phone? Shave just to show yourself that you are human damn it and this illness will NOT take over your life for another day? Call a suicide hotline? Call a friend? Please feel free to visit me on my Facebook page at Julie A. Fast. If you ask for help here, you will get some help from people who understand.
If you love someone with bipolar depression and are not sure what to do, you can visit Facebook and ask for help. You can also contact me regarding coaching through my coaching page on my JulieFast.com website.
Julie
I wrote my book Get it Done When You’re Depressed to help us get out of bed and get on with our lives. We can get better.
I have just found this page/ books. I know I need help and am in such a situation that I can not afford medication or a doctor…I am not even eating much and I am hungry (learning how hard that really is to be hungry all the time). I want to try to get this book. Do you think it is possible to manage/ learn to manage this yourself. I identified with what is said here because I know I have been depressed much of my life…I’ve worked on it a lot and really amazed that I can be ok with my circumstances…I’m not really all that depressed over the situation, but what I find is I can not make a decision, when I have things I want to do…I simply can’t and have spent more and more time hiding out and in bed. I get exhausted and then anxious. I am hiding this from other people because I haven’t found it helpful…peoples suggestions or worse an open door for someone to call me and whine about everything…which just makes me more anxious/ frighteningly so and I do not seem to be able to get the message across that I really don’t want to sit around and complain or hear someone else do it. I will focus on what I have…yet, I still am not doing the things I say/know I want to do. It makes me feel frightened and ashamed all at once. Thank you…