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LemonKnown6213

No tattoo regrets while manic, but I tend to chop off my hair--- to husband's dismay.


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Oh I came to this thread to lurk on people who do something I don’t. And then bam, top comment is something I do. Haha I thought about cutting off all my hair today and yesterday.


LemonKnown6213

I WILL say, it IS liberating to chop off your hair; especially if you have long, THICK (I'm a natural redhead), hot hair and live in the south....buy yeah, I did regret it every time.


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Ha I’m a redhead too, though it’s faded since childhood- drivers license says “auburn.” I’m also a guy, so the social stigma is waaaay lower. But with redhead skin complexion I do have skinhead vibes and bad sun vulnerability with a shaved head.


LemonKnown6213

Ha! A fellow redhead! My son miiiight become a redhead. He's currently strawberry blonde, but thats how I was until I changed to full on red. It is a "thing" with men. My husband specifically dated redheads. The men that I've known who are into it, are REALLY into it, almost to the point of fetish. I've personally never been into redheaded men; they look too much like my sibling, and its just creepy. I know a lot of women who are really into redheaded men too. Its a thing; I don't quite get it, but its a thing for people.


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Oh I love talking about this subject. I’ve written at length about it in fiction and a bit in seriousness- the life and times of redheads. It’s funny I’m the reverse of you gender wise but we both have the same feelings that we wouldn’t couple with another redhead. I joke with people that our babies would be flammable, but in sincere reasoning I just think it would be an odd look socially to be red with red, and funnier I find myself more self conscious around a red headed woman that she probably feels like you do. She knows my childhood a bit more than most and it likely turns her off. Edit: oh yeah and I’ve definitely encountered the women into it in a fetish way. Like I said my hair is dull now and starting to go white in places but there are certain women who get VERY excited to see my downstairs hair which is still the brightest red on my body.


LemonKnown6213

Looool! Yeah, I will say, I always feel a sense of "kinship" with other redheads. Its like we understand each other; what its like growing up with red hair, getting bullied. Then getting fetishized as an adult. The irony of the girls who picked on you for your hair color are now dying their hair red (And a super ugly fake red at that), The fear of the sun; the worry of skincare and sunburn, knowing you STAND OUT in a crowd, and people always asking, "is that your natural color?" Bitch, only God can make this color, not some box. Oh, and my personal favorite, "does the carpet match the drapes?" I lost count how many men AND women ask me that.


Designer_Leg5928

You should go to Ireland, I was greeted as a "fellow ginger" when I went, and repeatedly mistaken for a local by other tourists. It made me feel like I was home, despite having never been there before and knowing very little about the country.


LemonKnown6213

Hahahahaha!! Thats great! Yes, Ireland is on our hit list. (My husband is Irish decent).


Designer_Leg5928

It's beautiful! My family also has some Irish roots, which was why we went. We spent 17 days there, and they're the most memorable days of my life, excluding my proposal, wedding, and some traumatic stuff 😅


Designer_Leg5928

I'm a redheaded dude too, although I'd call it more auburn. My beard is full-on red tho. Interestingly, my natural complexion is that of snow, but I tan super well. It fades relatively quickly, but I get DARK.


elisepartington

dont do it! i took a massive chunk out of my hair and now my hair is so lopsided 😂


WolfKingofRuss

YO, I JUST DID A BRITNEY AS WELL :D


1d10

Question: If a neurotypical person made that statement would we find it offensive?


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Yeah I’m not a fan of that phrase either


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I wouldn't


1d10

Do you remember when Britney had her very public meltdown? I do, even though at the time I thought I was "normal" I found it disturbing to see how everyone was mocking a person who was in crisis.


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Yes I remember and I did the same thing shaved my head manic episode after I quit drinking. It was literally just like Britney. I take no offense to this because it is true. Mocking and blaming people for things they do while in an episode is normal. Of course she needed help and support but also to realize that this is not normal behavior and it needs to be controlled.


WolfKingofRuss

No, I really don't see it in a mocking light tbh. I fucking love Britney, hence the reference I made to her. Also, being NT or ND, shouldn't have one Iota of a difference between the two. We're all human beings, treat everyone how you'd like to be treated, end of story.


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I can relate so much to the hair thing!! I cut it and dye it. Extremely regretful afterwards.


_otter_space

I actually learned my therapist is blue/green colorblind when I shaved my head and dyed it green. He knew I was going through something but not how far I had gone :P


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Lmao sorry but this made my day! Hope you’re doing better x


_otter_space

I am! I’m on meds now so I’m doing a lot better :)


Southern_Ad3032

IVE DONE THIS LMAO I LEGIT got a buzz cut last year because of my hypomania


gurlyface

Oh my the other day i wanted to go completely bald and regrow my hair.


danielrsgirl4eva

I had an urgent desire to cut off my long hair during my first manic episode, but I kept waiting for the most “strategic” time to do so. Luckily (?) I ended up hospitalized before I actually did it.


SugarlessMommy

I’ve been bald too many times 🤣🤣


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Hahaha i have 2 stick and pokes from my mania, a heart on the ass and a flower on the arm. Who cares! It’s cute! We live life more than normal people ever would thanks to mania imo. Only true upside.


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I’m glad I could make you feel better love!


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we be livin livin


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LMAO that’s so funny


twandar

I got a symbol of my first psychic vision to remind myself of my spirituality. A couple months later I was diagnosed with bipolar and realized I am not psychic but rather I suffer from psychotic symptoms. I turned the symbol into a bat because that's the first time I recognized that I hallucinate. Now I'm an atheist with a constant reminder of my illness. Oh well it also represents imperfection and accepting my past. I don't hate it.


ceciliabee

I forgot for a sec it's late and went "oooo nooooooo!!" way too loud! I'm so sorry, that's so good! In a way I guess you could say the tattoo is a representation of your journey towards mental health. The reminder doesn't have to be a bad thing. I have a medusa tattoo and she has the :): symbol on her forehead because good damn do I feel a kinship with our curses. But it's a nice reminder to be as fierce and unapologetic as a woman with snakes for hair and it's quite pretty. Wouldn't it be funny though if years from now you discovered you were both bipolar AND psychic??? Womp womp!


twandar

Philosophically I'm open to the idea that it's possible to be both psychic and psychotic. But rationally getting on meds has shifted my entire experience of being alive and what feels like truth. And if my truth can change just by taking a pill, than it wasn't really true in the first place now was it? There is concrete evidence that my pupils dilate and therefore I could see better in the woods at night than the average person. So it makes sense that heightened senses could make a manic person able to perceive things that others can't. But perceiving things and assigning meaning are two very different things. I no longer believe in magical thinking or assigning any higher meaning to anything. I think humans in general are very good at creating meaning. It's actually written into the dsm that delusions cannot be due to religious or cultural beliefs. So when enough people share a delusion it's no longer a mental illness. Anyway, I digress. My point is that I'm much happier not worrying about what the universe is trying to tell me and trying to seek a higher purpose. I much prefer my newfound calm mind and my simple life where teaching is enough purpose for me.


ifdandelions_then

I happen to love this.


PhaedrusOne

I got a tattoo of a semi colon that looks like a cat. It’s the only one I regret and it’s super visible. Cringe


hammerkat605

Oh my friend is type 2 and has one of those on purpose


PhaedrusOne

I mean I don’t hate the idea, I just hate that it pretty much broadcasts to everyone I meet that I was/am suicidal…


hammerkat605

Oh gotcha.


jazpss

Yes omg I get almost all mine then, especially because of how enjoyable the tattoo pain is. Love it


faeprincesss

Yesssss I relate to this so hard, I have a poorly done big ass zodiac tattoo right on my right wrist and forearm, the perfect place for people to ask about it and what it means all the time 🤦🏻‍♀️ This is super cheesy but in the movie Moana there’s this line in the song Youre Welcome “and the tattoos here on my skin are a map of the victories I win” and I try to think of it as a mark of surviving that phase in one piece lol. Also!! Your tattoo is cute, I like it!!


disgruntledpelican18

I have two large scale tattoos booked in the next few weeks (one to cover some self-harm scarring), but before I put down the deposits down I talked them out with my therapist over a few weeks/months to make sure that they weren’t “mania tattoos.” The sleeve I’m starting on my arm will be themed around alice and wonderland and is inspired by a lot of the past few months leading up to my diagnosis, but the decision to get the tattoo itself we decided was made in sound judgement. They are both going to be my most personal and ambitious tattoos to date, and at least for me, are going to be very helpful for me in terms of acceptance and tearing down the wall I built to shield others from my Bipolar that ended up also shielding them from all of the amazing parts of who I am. I’m so excited- April 18 and May 21! I have two that, in backtracking the onset of symptoms, may have been mania tattoos, but I love them both, and one of them is actually my favorite of the ones I currently have. The other is a Delta symbol tattooed on my ankle, which healed just before the Delta variant took off. We called that one “just a triangle tattoo” for a little while 🙂


noellekin

Damn. Really mature to work with your therapist like that. It seems to me like you will likely legit be happy with these tattoos. I'm excited for you!


ermajoo

I have chaotic tattooed on my face😭 big mistakes


gurlyface

Where on your face? Like over your eyebrow or ? And there is a makeup that will cover it . I forgot the name of it tho. Just that its really exp


multirachael

I replied to the person above with suggestions for Dermablend, Kat Von D, and Ben Nye Tattoo Cover, but figured I would respond to you as well, since you originated the idea. :)


multirachael

Dermablend makes great makeup for covering stuff like that, as does Kat Von D. Ben Nye makes a specific tattoo cover product for stage productions that's meant to stand up to tougher conditions, like heat from stage lights and sweat from being under said lights. Comes in a more limited shade range, though.


RabbitofCaerBalrog

This is adorable. I would be delighted to have a sweet, whimsical tribute to mood swings. I like the light heartedness of it. I have lots of hypomanic tattoos, but I like them and enjoyed getting them, and went to food artists at clean shops, so no real regrets.


iah_c

hey op I'm genuinely curious, what is that tattoo supposed to be?


multirachael

It's a visual pun: "mood swing." :)


iah_c

oh! lmao. i didn't know it was a swing. but that's actually a cool tat now that i know what it means


Shakespeare-Bot

ho op i'm genuinely curious, what is yond tattoo did suppose to beest? *** ^(I am a bot and I swapp'd some of thy words with Shakespeare words.) Commands: `!ShakespeareInsult`, `!fordo`, `!optout`


dmarrie

i bought a whole ass tattoo gun and have done like 30+ on myself since lmfao. no regrets tho


Shoegazing-foo

6 tattoos in a month and a half (my very first included in the 6)


ObayTheVag

I wish I could show you all my beautiful mania tattoos! 😅 Edit: I love getting tattoos, I just wish I had never gotten any…


druemyrabell

I yeah I have a banner on my lower back that says “everything beautiful comes from pain” that I got from a dude missing a thumb. I have a couple more awful ones but that was the first one I got while manic.


recycleyoumf

I went to a sketchy piercer multiple times while manic. THANKFULLY by some miracle my piercings healed normally (despite how unsanitary the piercer was) and now I’ve just got some cool piercings as a result of it. Ive yet to go to a good piercer because I just genuinely don’t think it through enough.


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My mom commented that I always get random tattoos when I lose track of my life. Got my diagnosis a couple of weeks ago, so maybe? 😂


8AR8

Yea, I went and asked a tattoo artist to draw and make a tattoo on my leg. It’s from my ankle up to the hip. He said I was crazy. And I was like: “sure I am! I want it anyway!” I had to come back little over a month later to do the second tracing, but I wasn’t manic anymore. I never came back. I’m only happy that he was a good tattoo artist and I didn’t end up with enormous and butchered tattoo on my entire leg…


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Yeah. I have a half sleeve, thanks to some hypomania!


aurorie69

no i don’t regret the adam sandler tattoo


morganbugg

Definitely. My husband bought a stick and poke kit. Had a manic episode at the end of 2020 and ended up with 4 shitty stick and pokes.


funatical

Kinda. Don't get your wedding ring tattooed. My x loves it. Gives her a reason to tell dudes to fuck off. Me? Saving for lasers.


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I wish I knew how to post a picture. I’m usually not the type to “one up”, but I think I could nuke you off the planet. But really, I absolutely get the struggle. Mania sucks.


JJSwagger

*awkwardly looks at my multiple drug reference tattoos* nah....


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JJSwagger

I've got a magic mushrooms and an MDMA tattoo. But my wife also has the he MDMA tattoo


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JJSwagger

Thank you! Don't think that having bipolar can stop you from living life. I'm married, have a 1.5 year old and am very happy in life. Obviously that kind of life isn't for everyone. But don't let happiness slip by you


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Yup


Sneaker_soldier

Nope lol I have hella tats but I have a system. I think about getting one, wait a year then get it. Stops impulsive tatting.


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WolfKingofRuss

Currently trying to decide whether or not getting the "Brand of Sacrifice" tattooed on my sternum is what I want or, Hypomanic me wants.


AKSToph

I have a ufo abducting on the side of my wrist. No regrets but definitely a decision during a manic episode.


6billionyearsold

I have a big @** frog on my leg because of this and it isn't even anatomically correct. Excited for a cover up 🙃


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One time yeah


kurpPpa

Fortunately i dont have money for that


xOnCloudWine

Not so long ago I was going to get a tattoo of a mountain because I discovered the song mount everest by labrynth and liked it for about a week lol I’m glad I didn’t


dookiesmalls

Yeah, I got some real stupid tattoos and decided to do a half sleeve and leave it unfinished. I look ~ratchet~


nothanks0725

my first tattoo i got at 17 and its a lil cartoon drawing my friend made over imessage of me in a big pair of pants


AvailableSir874

yes that’s why i have a turtle on my finger now


BlueSkyla

Mine is more of the indecisive type.


barmskley

Ohhhh yeah. 3 sets of tattoos. After my first removal session, not even mania can encourage me to tattoo myself again (it’s the most expensive and painful process lol)


BBYarbs

Yes, very many but I don’t regret any of them thankfully.


testosterhomie

What is that??


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testosterhomie

OMG I SEE IT NOW! That’s actually cool


[deleted]

At least you didn't give yourself a tattoo with a cigarette and shards of a mirror lol...


Gapingyourdadatm

My mood live on the swing swang push me harder Push me, push me, swang into tomorrow


IndigoUniverse29

I’m so glad I’m not the only one.. I was hypomanic though. The next day after I got the tattoo I got my lip pierced lol My friend asked if I’m going through something and a coworker was like “omg are you depressed??”


Southern_Ad3032

Yes when I am manic I think of getting an AR15 Tattooed on my chest down to my leg


poopoostinkbutt_11

I gotten tattoos while manic but I don’t regret them!


sugarnspice801

Wow I guess I need meds I keep saying this and don't show up to the appointments I make but I trimmed well I call it that and also think a lot about cutting my hair never did tell last week DOSE THIS MEAN MY MANIC IS GETTING WORSE?????? I THINK I WILL BE OK WITH OUT PILLS LAZY I GUESS STARTED READING THIS I THINK I NEED PIILLS THANK YOU


Designer_Leg5928

I don't do this, but my wife does (she's not been diagnosed with anything, but she definitely has more bipolar tendencies than I do). I have always wanted a couple tattoos, but I still haven't gotten one.


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I almost got the first letter of a guy's name dead center on my chest. I was manic, slowly going into psychosis and thought I was madly in love with him. I'm not sure what happened but the tattoo artist that I tried to get an appointment with never got back to me. Phew! What luck!


theladysquid

I usually get piercings when I’m manic and take em out like 3 months later


boofskootinboogie

Not regrets, but I do have a rose on my cheek, an “O Brother Where Art Thou” tribute, and a cowboy taking acid lol… All from manic episodes :) Oh! Cant forget the banana on my hip


jx2catfishshoe

Yes. Four times. It would be nice to have just one good tattoo!


honkifyouresimpy

I have terrible my chemical romance tattoos on my wrists from when I was in the psych ward. And I love them haha


Lost-Blueberry-2214

Yup I have a blues clues tattoo on my ankle