Hi there. I'm a 46 year old man, diagnosed bipolar and antisocial personality disorder many years ago. Been on paxil and epival for 13 years and its agreed with me. I work ridiculously hard on my issues to cope/live with them, I don't sit back and rely on the meds or feel sorry for myself. Sure there are rough days, but I stay positive for the most part as long as I stay on my course. I have a past of extensive violence, jail time, psych wards multiple times and work to keep those issues in check. In 13 years I have missed my meds only one day, I havent drank alcohol in 20 years, dont smoke and dont do drugs. I do moderate exercise and am diligent in the area of nutrition and supplements.
I firmly believe a large number of issues like I have can be kept in check through proper nutrition, water intake, supplementation, avoiding drugs and alcohol and doing what I call "living within the brackets" which means living my life doing what makes me feel well. Many years ago I suffered from 17 hour a day panic attacks, with them only stopping when I was medded up enough to sleep, only to repeat when I woke up. I havent had a panic attack since 2006, using my mind, nutrition, supplements and water intake to keep them in check. I NEVER used benzo's (ativan,xanax etc) to overcome my panic/anxiety because I had zero interest in becoming addicted to them.
I put out a bunch of short stories about my past and where I am now and the methods I used to overcome my issues, and a publisher got wind of them, got a hold of me and asked me to write a book. The book is going to tell stories of my violent past, issues with mental health disorders and all the ways I have used to feel better. The catch is that I'm not writing it for money. When it is done I am just going to give it to people with these disorders for free in ebook form in hope that it can help someone cope/overcome these issues. I'm just a slow writer, but it will be done some day soon, I have about 100 pages at the moment.
Anyways, thats me, hi.
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hello and welcome. i relate to what you said about diet and exercise. when i'm doing what i should, things go smoothly. when i'm eating nothing but crap, that's guaranteed emotional problems right there. best of luck with your writing, sounds like it'll bring some meaning to your experience.
