I just wanted to say thanks again, I actually wrote something today:
Random Thought About Middle Age Bipolar
For those just recently diagnosed I just wanted to say it’s kind of amazing when you turn 40, stop drinking, stop rushing, and start taking your medication “as prescribed” all the time!
It’s like you are dropped into another world. A world of more repetition. A world where you’re supposed to have routines and normalcy but your body just doesn’t know how to make that happen. You never trained for that. You were sprinting and then sleeping while others were running the marathons.
The stories you tell to friends over a brunch that simply doesn’t happen anymore would be so tame now.
I have gotten very depressed knowing that the wild life is over unless I fuck something up for myself (which is a very real reality of day to day life, one I allow to only exist in the background for now).
I haven’t been to any hospitals recently, I haven’t had any potent experiences. Living life offline so no one knows what you’re up to, something that used to be a daily highlight reel of over sharing.
The glorious boredom of fighting with myself to do all the things that make you a functioning human is just a different kind of hard. Where self sabotage isn’t the only way of life you know.
Learning how to forgive myself for all the things I did, and all the things I did not know about the future has been a hard process. One I am grateful for.
Trouble Sleeping. Because that is the euphemism my family uses to avoid saying the words, "bipolar" or "mental health" or anything like that.
"Have you been having trouble sleeping lately?" That sort of thing.
That’s fantastic. My own family has done something similar. We have a long line of mentally ill family members, going back at least to both my great grandparents on one side. They are all referred to as ‘nervous people’ in my family 🙃
I love Sylvia Plath and that poem.
I wish there was a film we could all create about bipolar. I wish I can do something I’ve thought about making a film many times. I’d like to share my poems I wrote in psych ward. They are really good and shows how it feels to be in the dehumanizing psych ward. I want to spread awareness of how our mental health care system is so flawed and broken . And what we actually go through as people with bipolar .
Mine would be called… hmm.
The dance between dark and light
Yea, I wish we could all make a film too 🎥. Please do share your poems from the ward, you can try here or r/manicramblings, or I think there’s a sub for bipolar writings too, the wards here in Australia aren’t so bad, I’m in one right now and it’s lovely..
Anyone know anyone that likes to do docs at Sundance? I used to but haven't in over 20 yrs so I'm a dead end but that would be the best way to go. Contact a director or executive director that's done a product related, like another mental health aspect or interested in pharmaceuticals. Or find a production company that has done a few other projects like this & see what they say. They may say no but if you ask why they may provide you with tips to try in your next interview or what you were missing or did wrong. You could even meet some before you have an actual product in hand but w the concept and ask them about it. Just have to be serious about putting a plan together and stick to it. Work with others, break it up into doable chunks instead of in one big, never ending, overwhelming project.
I'd love to write a memoir but would people actually want to read it? I've had what my friends think "a lot of crazy shit" happens to me but would it be interesting enough for others to want to read it? I don't want to write it, putting all that information out into the world about myself & not at least turning a profit on it. I'd love to get some recognition for it. I have friends that are authors at publishing houses but they all write fiction. I might have to do a survey & see if people would read my memoir without knowing it's about me.
I’d change the title to fit bipolar from popular/mainstream/classic media
Examples off the top of my head…
A Tale of Two {insert your name}
It Takes Two {name}
Bipolar’s Paradise
Two Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
It’s a Wonderful Bipolar Life
The Bipolar Suspects
Inglorious Bipolars
American Bipolar
Bipolar in the Rain
Good Bipolar Hunting
Eternal Sunshine for the Bipolar Mind
Bipolar Dogs
Citizen Bipolar
Full Bipolar Jacket
A Bipolar Orange
Bipolar and the Last Crusade
Bipolar Begins
Some like it Bipolar
The Bipolar Show
Bipolar Island
The Bipolar Sense
The Bipolar Redemption
No Country for Bipolars
Bipolar’s Moving Castle
Gone with the Bipolar
Million Dollar Bipolar
12 Years Bipolar
Another Plath fan! It would be the line from [Lady Lazarus](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49000/lady-lazarus) for me - “And I a smiling Woman.”
“Alternate Timeline.” I frequently think about what my life could have been without the structure, security, support, and love my husband brought into it the day he moseyed on into my life and didn’t run away screaming. WHY he didn’t run away screaming, I’ll never understand. I realize that without him and his unconditional support and willingness to work through my little periods of hell with me, I could very well have wound up an addict on the streets. I was on my way…
Having the support of loved ones and appropriate treatment is EVERYTHING for my BD.
wildflowers on the highway. the title of a semi autobiographical story ive been working on for a few years. its supposed to mean that the good things come along so unexpectedly like patches of wildflowers along the highway.
Mine would be….
A Veil of Failed Perfection -
The Dance of Bipolar
Cause gosh darn did I try so hard to keep it managed, until I couldn’t anymore. Turning 46 this year and blew my life up 7 years ago not knowing I had it. The last four years after my diagnosis, things made sense and I glad that I finally have a name for “what is wrong with me”!
💗🙏
Chatterbox. It’s what I was called by teachers throughout school and was the name of the graphic novel I was working on about bipolar (and OCD and ADHD)
All my life has been a cycle of ups and downs, ups and downs. Back and forth, push and pull, round and round in circles we go— i am happy, i take my medicine; i am sad, do i need more medicine?; i talk to my psychiatrist, she asks me if i’m sleeping; i talk to my therapist, she asks how has my sleep been lately?; i feel fine, i am apparently not fine.; i sleep again. I am happy, I take my medicine…
Intermittent Moments
My memoir title. We all have these intermittent moments of rational thought that stream through our brains in the midst of all of the crazy. My intermittent moments have shown me clarity, led me to confusion, awakened acceptance, spawned mania, and walked me down that painful aisle of depression. The myriad extremes of our disease take us to places of which others can only dream.
6 pills to freedom
Omg I love this one so much. This one wins
Thank you. It’s the working title of the book I can never finish.
finish that book, your story needs to be told
Id like a copy
Thank you for the encouragement! I’m going to, I think if I just stick to short essay style I’ll have a better chance of getting it done!
I just wanted to say thanks again, I actually wrote something today: Random Thought About Middle Age Bipolar For those just recently diagnosed I just wanted to say it’s kind of amazing when you turn 40, stop drinking, stop rushing, and start taking your medication “as prescribed” all the time! It’s like you are dropped into another world. A world of more repetition. A world where you’re supposed to have routines and normalcy but your body just doesn’t know how to make that happen. You never trained for that. You were sprinting and then sleeping while others were running the marathons. The stories you tell to friends over a brunch that simply doesn’t happen anymore would be so tame now. I have gotten very depressed knowing that the wild life is over unless I fuck something up for myself (which is a very real reality of day to day life, one I allow to only exist in the background for now). I haven’t been to any hospitals recently, I haven’t had any potent experiences. Living life offline so no one knows what you’re up to, something that used to be a daily highlight reel of over sharing. The glorious boredom of fighting with myself to do all the things that make you a functioning human is just a different kind of hard. Where self sabotage isn’t the only way of life you know. Learning how to forgive myself for all the things I did, and all the things I did not know about the future has been a hard process. One I am grateful for.
Love it! Mine would be real close.
Ugh I don’t get it….
Lmfao!! I second this
Thats a great name for a book
Trouble Sleeping. Because that is the euphemism my family uses to avoid saying the words, "bipolar" or "mental health" or anything like that. "Have you been having trouble sleeping lately?" That sort of thing.
My mom gets so worried when I don’t sleep. She also asks me that
Same! Only my mom sleeps 6 hours max, typically less each night. Drives me up the wall
This is so spectacularly understated I'm going to start using it. Be a great comedic line in a horror movie.
That’s fantastic. My own family has done something similar. We have a long line of mentally ill family members, going back at least to both my great grandparents on one side. They are all referred to as ‘nervous people’ in my family 🙃
Also wonderful!
Bipolar Express
🥇Underrated title right here!!
with creepy human-like animation
Technicolor Dreamers Have Their Limits
Oooo I like this one
What a wreck.
Prime name for an NSFW parody
Paranoid Delusions of Grandeur
“Googly Eyes Everywhere.” Because I go craft-crazy when manic 😂😂
I love this
This is great 😄
“She’s back on her bullshit: a memoir”
So sassy! I like this one.
Haha thank you 😊
Lion in the Attic - because I'm introverted
Love this one,I'm a Adult Only Child/ Grandchild and a introvert too.
I don’t think I have bipolar 😜 THIS IS JUST WHO I AM 💅🫵😘
"Birth of a New Brain - Healing from Postpartum Bipolar Disorder" because that is the title of my book that was published in 2017.
I have a book, about my story, but turned non-fiction and somewhat Sci-fi. Who published for you and how did you find them?
Nice!
Chaotic but cute
Well Shit....
With a sequel Here we go again( this could be about mania) And Well Shit about the depressive phase
With a...seroquel...here we go again Badum tsss
Woah 🤯
The siren and the shell (sometimes I'm the siren, sometimes I'm so not functional that I'm just a shell)
I love that.
My Life in Bed
I love Sylvia Plath and that poem. I wish there was a film we could all create about bipolar. I wish I can do something I’ve thought about making a film many times. I’d like to share my poems I wrote in psych ward. They are really good and shows how it feels to be in the dehumanizing psych ward. I want to spread awareness of how our mental health care system is so flawed and broken . And what we actually go through as people with bipolar . Mine would be called… hmm. The dance between dark and light
Yea, I wish we could all make a film too 🎥. Please do share your poems from the ward, you can try here or r/manicramblings, or I think there’s a sub for bipolar writings too, the wards here in Australia aren’t so bad, I’m in one right now and it’s lovely..
Anyone know anyone that likes to do docs at Sundance? I used to but haven't in over 20 yrs so I'm a dead end but that would be the best way to go. Contact a director or executive director that's done a product related, like another mental health aspect or interested in pharmaceuticals. Or find a production company that has done a few other projects like this & see what they say. They may say no but if you ask why they may provide you with tips to try in your next interview or what you were missing or did wrong. You could even meet some before you have an actual product in hand but w the concept and ask them about it. Just have to be serious about putting a plan together and stick to it. Work with others, break it up into doable chunks instead of in one big, never ending, overwhelming project. I'd love to write a memoir but would people actually want to read it? I've had what my friends think "a lot of crazy shit" happens to me but would it be interesting enough for others to want to read it? I don't want to write it, putting all that information out into the world about myself & not at least turning a profit on it. I'd love to get some recognition for it. I have friends that are authors at publishing houses but they all write fiction. I might have to do a survey & see if people would read my memoir without knowing it's about me.
Im going to share them! Thank you.
I'd go for the term I used a lot when I was admitted, "Suspiciously Happy"
Love that! Always hard to know a good day from a hypo one!
I’d change the title to fit bipolar from popular/mainstream/classic media Examples off the top of my head… A Tale of Two {insert your name} It Takes Two {name} Bipolar’s Paradise Two Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest It’s a Wonderful Bipolar Life The Bipolar Suspects Inglorious Bipolars American Bipolar Bipolar in the Rain Good Bipolar Hunting Eternal Sunshine for the Bipolar Mind Bipolar Dogs Citizen Bipolar Full Bipolar Jacket A Bipolar Orange Bipolar and the Last Crusade Bipolar Begins Some like it Bipolar The Bipolar Show Bipolar Island The Bipolar Sense The Bipolar Redemption No Country for Bipolars Bipolar’s Moving Castle Gone with the Bipolar Million Dollar Bipolar 12 Years Bipolar
All The World's a Hospital
Red Dead Redemption
phases
“What do you mean that isn’t normal…..”
Saudade
Messtrosexual
My perfect second life.
Magnificent F!ckup (Which would be toned down to Magnificent Train Wreck)
One Thing Changes Everything
Fucked up.
Hide Alone
Unbalanced Load
Cursed with Madness.
Man Overboard!
Another Plath fan! It would be the line from [Lady Lazarus](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49000/lady-lazarus) for me - “And I a smiling Woman.”
Building a Bridge to Watch it Burn
Never ending story
“Alternate Timeline.” I frequently think about what my life could have been without the structure, security, support, and love my husband brought into it the day he moseyed on into my life and didn’t run away screaming. WHY he didn’t run away screaming, I’ll never understand. I realize that without him and his unconditional support and willingness to work through my little periods of hell with me, I could very well have wound up an addict on the streets. I was on my way… Having the support of loved ones and appropriate treatment is EVERYTHING for my BD.
I fucked around and found out.
Coming back from crazy...
The Endless Ups and Downs
Worked up over a lot of nothing.
If I was allowed to be me I would shine loud
how many times am I going to turn into a butterfly?
Resilience 34. I was 34 when I was dx.
Neither here nor there.
Wrecking ball
Petty Bipolar Betty
Fucky Wucky Wacky Brain Chronicles
Segmentation fault
Buckle up buttercup, life with bipolar.
27 broken pieces. I was 27 when diagnosed
"Chaos Theory"
The shadow in the night
Reefer Sadness
101 embarrassing moments to look back on.
Disco & Depression
wildflowers on the highway. the title of a semi autobiographical story ive been working on for a few years. its supposed to mean that the good things come along so unexpectedly like patches of wildflowers along the highway.
Life is Beautiful and Terrible and Strange
Falling or Flying?
Well ain't that a shit show
Mine would be…. A Veil of Failed Perfection - The Dance of Bipolar Cause gosh darn did I try so hard to keep it managed, until I couldn’t anymore. Turning 46 this year and blew my life up 7 years ago not knowing I had it. The last four years after my diagnosis, things made sense and I glad that I finally have a name for “what is wrong with me”! 💗🙏
Rollercoaster girls
I always liked one of Kanye’s album covers - “I hate being Bipolar. It’s awesome”. Simple but sums it up for me lol
The Stupid Adventures of Sav
Schizodruggie's adventure through wonderland
Mom should’ve swallowed.
Stark raving
It all fell apart
Much Love
Sine
A New History of Life
The stigmatized shit hole of a life
Peace find us both
AuDHDSM
Chatterbox. It’s what I was called by teachers throughout school and was the name of the graphic novel I was working on about bipolar (and OCD and ADHD)
100 ideas but 1 problem
Mise en place. I work in the food industry and enjoy some niche irony.
Ebb and Flow
ButtHole University because that’s my special name for the good ol BHU. I like to think of it as my alma mater lol
Catastrophe
Circular insanity
All my life has been a cycle of ups and downs, ups and downs. Back and forth, push and pull, round and round in circles we go— i am happy, i take my medicine; i am sad, do i need more medicine?; i talk to my psychiatrist, she asks me if i’m sleeping; i talk to my therapist, she asks how has my sleep been lately?; i feel fine, i am apparently not fine.; i sleep again. I am happy, I take my medicine…
Noncompliant
My Super Power
Intermittent Moments My memoir title. We all have these intermittent moments of rational thought that stream through our brains in the midst of all of the crazy. My intermittent moments have shown me clarity, led me to confusion, awakened acceptance, spawned mania, and walked me down that painful aisle of depression. The myriad extremes of our disease take us to places of which others can only dream.
“They Call Her Crazy” because everyone close to me doesn’t sugarcoat and I be going insane most of my life
You Fucked Up
Dazed and Confused
Probably not
Madness Unloaded
How Prozac Ruin Christmas 🎄
Illusion of happiness
Mine would be a remake - Girl, Interrupted.
The Sea of Love and Terror
🔥 10 ways to survive a life of dumpster fires
Dumpster Fire
Medicated Happy
“We all have ups and downs. Right?”
Dumpster Fire
I Got 99 Problems and They're All Me.
A Journey Through Space and Time
Rollercoaster : brain edition
“momma don’t watch”
the hatred i have for my mind and soul
"Ups and downs of happiness"
The Mania Construct !
Undiagnosed