Bipolar Depression Symptoms
Make a list of your top five depression symptoms:
Write out this list and put it in your wallet. When the depression starts take it out and read it. Then say to yourself, “If I’m going through something on this list, it has to be depression. This means I have to treat the depression first.”
Depression behavior rarely changes. When you learn your symptoms, you can differentiate them from the real you.
If you care about someone with depression, make a list of their top five depression symptoms. Memorize them. This helps you know what you’re up against when their behavior is confusing. You can say to yourself, “I remember this! He always talks like this when he’s depressed! We have to focus on treating the depression instead of talking endlessly about what is wrong.”
This prevents the Bipolar Conversation. I write about the Bipolar Conversation in all of my books!
Julie
A few of my bipolar disorder depression symptoms:
I Think: I will never find a partner.
I Hear a voice: What is the point of working?
I Believe: Things will never get better.
I Cry easily.
I Eat everything I don’t need to be eating!
My depression never changes. My management skills have just gotten so much better that I can overcome the depression more easily than I used to.
Julie
