Posted by n03113 on June 11, 2005, at 19:00:48
Hi, my name is Noelle, but you can call me noey or something. I'm 21 years old and I live in the USA. I've been diagnosed BiPolar II- but I've run through the gamut of different diagnosis durring my journey into the world of mental illnesses. I'm on the most medication I've ever been on and while I wish I didn't have to take medication I feel it's made an improvement because I've read journal entries I wrote in the past 4 years and they scare me now that I understand what I was thinking and just amazes me and leaves me speechless of how out of control I was. I live a very private life, not even my parents know much about my MI, even though my father is a psychiatric nurse. They will probably never know how bad I truely was and I feel too uncomfortable to share that information with them, maybe it's because I'm ashamed, I don't know. Maybe then they would appreciate the fact that I am on medication and that I am seeking help... but anyways. I also believe that my mother and my brother are BP as well, or at least afflicted with other types of MI. My mother is in denial. My brother suffered a brain injury at birth rendering him onto the autistic spectrum. I also believe he too is BP, but as I mentioned my parents are in denial about my own BP so they would never even look into his.
I got this link from a friend and thought I would check it out. I myself own and opperate a support forum at psychosomatica.org but I like that this is for gathering information and research about those of us who suffer, so here I am.
poster:n03113
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