Dealing with Mental Illness

I wish I could post an answer to this. Currently I am seeking a health care provider. Being without health care it is difficult to find one. I have a similar diagnosis as you and at this moment try to take it one day at a time...even it moment by moment. I am looking forward to some of the answers others may post here. What an intuitive discussion; I wish there more of this nature and quality were to be found here. I would like to add you to my friends list if I may... There are a couple of things I would like to discuss with you outside of this post. :)

Medications were a nightmare for me. I just simply don't use them anymore, because I would rather deal with my illness than the side effects of meds. I have two websites on the subject. My first one, http://www.treating-bipolar-and-anxiety-without-meds.com does a better job of telling my story, but it is full of grammatical errors, and it's kind of overwhelming because it's 80 pages long. The second one, http://www.free-your-mind-from-meds.com is much more entertaining, condensed, and user friendly. Neither one of them is selling anything. Just sharing my knowledge and my personal story. I just got fed up one day, and wrote up a treatment plan for myself. Then I decided it share it with the world. I got most of my info from hospital programs that I have been in. You may find something useful there.

Hello, I think there is always a social factor behind every mental illness. No matter how independent minded we are, we can't just stand apart from our society. This is when society influences us physically and more importantly, psychologically. I've been doing some research on psychology. I published a few articles which you'll find in my myLot profile. One of which http://www.bukisa.com/articles/354958_how-to-analyze-your-own-mind is about analyzing one's own mind. While doing research for this article, I found the significant role of social factors in shaping one's basic psychological pattern. The root of almost all psychological disorders, of course, lies in early childhood habits or the treatments one gets in one's childhood. So the basic psychological frame is built in a period as early as childhood. Bipolar disorder is perhaps the most problematic psychological disorder. In general, you need social support, support from your family and friends in order to restore normalcy. Now this is a rare thing. In today's world very few of us actually have time to care for others. But those precious few are to be discovered. There, definitely are people who are more than willing to help. Social acceptance builds up through these few caring persons and I am sure you already have a few of them around you. God willing, you'll recover soon. Always have faith in him, as he always has the best thing in store for you. Thanks. God bless you.

I am now a person that likes to work on prevention. So personally I would do all I could to improve my mental illness and hopefully one day I would not need much medication.

Hello, I am new here and I just saw your post. I am building a web-site, maybe there is something that might help you on it. My site is http://www.soundmindaus.com I have heaps to do on it yet and I plan to be working on it for the remainder of my life. I feel for you as I have experienced the cruely, the stigmatization and such things with mental disorders. Yeah, eating disorders are coomon with a diagnosis of OCD. Lots of things tend to inter-twine. Anyway, have a look at my site if you are interested. Best wishes. Paul, from Australia.