Beware of using email while in a bipolar disorder mood swing…. Email can be a terrible tool when you have bipolar disorder…. I really can’t stress this enough. If you look back over my blogs for the past few years, you will see that I always have trouble with email when I’m not doing well. This is not only about having too much email- it’s about getting obsessed with email.
Email is also a poor communication tool if you are having trouble with a relationship.
Tip:
– If you find yourself obsessively waiting for someone’s email, examine the real problem- the situation that is causing the obsession. Are you doing something unhealthy? Is it something you can stop? Good questions to ask.
As you can tell, I have trouble with email too.
Julie
PS: If you have trouble with email in certain situations, it really is ok to go back to a cell only.
Generally, I am an extremely isolated individual. I almost never have anyone to talk to (and am so reserved that I don’t say much when I do anyway). So when I become manic, it’s email time. That overwhelming desire one gets while manic to empty their cranium’s content overload out onto other people, whether it is a good idea to do so or not, usually ends up in me writing like a madman – a flurry of emails, working on my books, internet postings and comments, journal entries, essays. For me, it’s the emails that have the greatest potential for damage. My normal filters for protecting myself and keeping my innermost thoughts and vulnerabilities safe from harm just sort of take a vacation. Sometimes that has been a good thing, sometimes it has been just the opposite. With some people I was safe, with others, not so much. A person’s ability to discern unsafe and dangerous acts and situations while manic seems to be seriously diminished.
I suppose I start having the same problem when I cycle into depression. The main difference is I either don’t have the mental energy necessary to write anything worth a crap or don’t have the necessary self esteem to think what I have written is worthy of having anyone read it so it almost never gets shared.