Bp Magazine just shared my trigger article on Facebook. (You can find me on Facebook at Julie A. Fast and Julie A. Fast Books.) I need to read my own articles as it helps me assess where I am a the moment. Bipolar disorder can distort my thoughts and a check in is essential for me to make sure I’m not acting out of the illness and not my true self.
Bipolar disorder and triggers! Oh wow. I needed to read this today! My move to Europe has been a challenge. Of course it has. I had two big bipolar triggers when I got here. I made it through both of them by using the strategies I talk about in the article below. Bipolar clouds my thinking so much that it’s important I have people around me who can help me see reason. I now see how triggers affected my travel in the past. I used to just roam the world without having a plan. Now I have a plan and trigger management is top of the list.
How do you manage your triggers?
I’m interested. I can say that being in England for a few weeks reminded me that environment is everything. I am staying with a friend who seems to understand me. That has made the move possible. People with bipolar get triggered by life events- whether they be positive or negative. I got sick this week, but I used my plan and with the help of my friend, I got through the awful depression episode. We CAN manage this illness. We CAN reach our dreams.
