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18 May 2025 04:41 PM
18 May 2025 04:41 PM
Here a couple of links on Sane to some resources on bipolar that you may find helpful.
18 May 2025 06:34 PM
18 May 2025 06:34 PM
Hey @snowflake231 ,
It sounds so powerful that your daughter is your protective factor - this is what keeps you going. We hear how hard things are for you at the moment, and that you have been through ECT.
Do you think a medication review might help? Or are you in the position to have a private admission for intensive therapeutic support?
I hear how hard it is for you and really wanted to reach out to let you know that many have been in a smiliar dark place - myself included.
I have been in a space where I never thought I'd get out of the darkness. Yet things DID improve eventually.
Please hold on.
18 May 2025 07:24 PM
18 May 2025 07:24 PM
@MJG017 I don't think I'm in a mindset to write anything down. I know that she feels the depression but I also know if I wrote/ told anyone what I truly feel it would be too much for her to handle. I honestly can't reveal the true extent of the problem.
18 May 2025 07:27 PM
18 May 2025 07:27 PM
No im not in a position to have an admission. I'm however going to talk to my mental health gp to see if we can review the medication any further.
18 May 2025 11:52 PM
18 May 2025 11:52 PM
Thank you for the links. I looked it up and I am definately going through a mixed episode. I have also found a local support group which I registered for. So thank you.
19 May 2025 08:14 AM
19 May 2025 08:14 AM
So this is hard. I'm definately going through a mixed episode with dysphoria. This is so confusing. On one hand I'm full of energy, but I don't have the drive or attention span to do anything. Thoughts are just running through my head and they get all jumbled up so all I can do is sit on my couch and do nothing.
I just don't care anymore. I don't care if I live or die. I don't care how I look I don't care if I get sick I just don't care.
19 May 2025 11:26 AM
19 May 2025 11:26 AM
19 May 2025 01:02 PM
19 May 2025 01:02 PM
I used to have a bulk billing psychiatrist but he retired and I can't find another one as I just can not afford it.
at my local medical clinic we have a gp that only does mental health. He used to work for the local inpatient unit. So he is my only option. I'm not sure how good he is I managed to get an appt with him tomorrow when I'm just going to lay it on him.
19 May 2025 01:44 PM
19 May 2025 01:44 PM
20 May 2025 11:59 AM
20 May 2025 11:59 AM
Hi Snowflake,
I feel like some of your replies are responses from your question being put into chatgpt. I do not agree with the responses but here is my personnel one.
I have 3 son's aged in their 30's & 40's who don't speak to me at all. 8 great children I don't see because I didn't know I have had a mental illness all my life. I am only just waking up to that fact now and it is giving me strength to find help.
I'm scared of uncovering everything I have buried, but I think I need to so I can begin to mend my fractured family.
I don't have answers for you. Just ears and understanding.
Sometimes it helps me get through by thinking there is always someone worse off that me.
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