@brennanlaughs: Have you ever struggled to find the real you? #bipolar #bipolardisorder #MentalHealth #mentalillness #fyp

leolamarie2 :

After being on lithium for 3 months i learned my baseline is just agitation and irritation. everything pisses me off.

Angel 🌸 :

my boyfriend has bipolar disorder and im trying to learn anything i possibly can so i can better support him and understand what he goes through daily, his identity is definitely a thing he has trouble understanding and im very supportive in trying to help him with that and he says im doing great already, but is there any way i can support him a little better? what are some things that someone on the outside can learn to help you find some comfort at least for a little bit, or ways you'd want them to learn/know? i don't want him to ever feel unheard or ashamed because i don't know something well enough

Darcy :

Until we got my medication right, I thought the real me was melancholic. I really believed I was my sadness.

Kristy Bye :

Dude I am just a numb lil’ bug I really have no idea

RachaelSarah ✨ :

I’m not sure who I truly am sometimes. I’m currently in an elevated mood, and I love this part of me. I hate having to second guess all the time if I’m just really happy and full of life or am I manic.

xxxgatorxxx 🦇 :

I’m glad you said this, I remember BAWLING over not knowing who I am

Toots90 :

Thank you for addressing this. 💯 spot on 🥰🥰🥰

jessicahelmes🇨🇦 :

I have no idea who I truly am outside of the back and forth of the highs and lows.

Its_just_brie :

I don't know if I'm happy and baseline or manic.

Pina :

This is making me stressed im just going to ignore it

Ashton Heinl :

This!!! I understand this!

Elisabeth Vale :

The worst is, even before BD I was energetic, outgoing, and extroverted in general. So once I get into hypomania, I don’t know if it’s just me or a weak episode :/

Elle Millar :

This!!!! 100% this!!! I’ve named my bipolar and I never know if it’s me (Elle) or the bipolar (bobbi) it’s so difficult and exhausting x

Tacktou :

THISSSSSSSSS oh my i am so stress about this

Aliinwnderland :

Meowwwww

BeckyThinksOutLoud :

My mum has severe bipolar 1 and I’ve never known which one is the true her :(

GIRLSSS_WLW :

why is this life so hard.

hotnhealing :

Sarah 🇨🇦 :

Everyday I struggle with this,

Alysha Marie 🆘 🇺🇸 :

This is so true. I ended up with a poor sense of self. Who am I? What do I like? And how sad was it to learn that the ambition, drive, goal directed energy was all a farce? I’m relearning who I really am.

Amanda :

ya. I wondered a lot the last couple years since ive been working on myself which one of me is the regular me. I really thought it was alone in this.

diconnekta :

What has really helped me is embracing all versions of me as me but me in that season. I explain to new people that I am seasonal - I’m a different person in all the seasons and you’ll have to meet, learn and love all the versions of me to truly love me

evelynsilversmith :

Yes yes yes great description

Abyylyyn :

Type 2, before I knew I had it I felt like the depressive version was the “real me” and completely defined me even when I wasn’t an episode because I knew I would always go back to it. Always lurking and it’s threat to come back

Maks007 :

Thank you