My Bipolar Disorder is trying to kill me. It feels like such an impossible thing to live with and every so often I will find the 'impossible' day. I wake up and think 'this is not going to go well', and it is painful to be awake and difficult to just navigate a day. I do get through it, but not easily - so I guess realistically those days are not 'impossible', but it feels like it's a delay until the next 'impossible' day.
Good and bad days - the balance I do not count. My life is going very well, health wise? That's just not working in my favour. I know my mind is just so out of balance and my illness is at it's worst because it's processing so much trauma. Perhaps I should start counting the good and bad days, realistically I should be writing every day and if not on here - at least keeping a mood journal so I can keep on top of episodes and triggers. However, I like to bury my head in some regards. I don't think it's fair that there's things I can't do anymore and things I have to do just to have a normal life. I have taken myself off caffeine and alcohol and I'm still trying to balance my sleeping schedule. I'm avoiding sugary foods, I am moderating the temperatures in environments I'm in and trying to push for a routine: It's just so difficult! It's so trying to secure every aspect of my life to create a sense of balance. I know I have to keep chasing that wellbeing though, it's unfortunate it has gotten to this stage - but on the road to remission, I need to do these things in order to secure stability for as long as I possibly can.
In terms of my illness right now: my Bipolar Disorder has been rapid cycling, I'm losing a lot of sleep and I've began having seizures. It's such a scary ordeal. So I'm trying to desperately create balance in my life, find the right treatments and distinguish triggers. I've learned to distinguish the major trigger towards my bipolar relapse, but I also need to identify those small daily ones.
The part to me that will always hit hard, on the topic of triggers, it was clear that outside factors very much affected the demise of my health and caused my bipolar relapse. My illness is unfair, but it always - for me - follows from a trigger, which can be small or big. Understanding how I got to this place has been healing in a way, but it's hard to come to terms with how others can impact your health. It's a necessary emotional journey where you don't have to like what's happened to put you in a certain place, but you have to accept it. It's a learning curve for me to not be so naive and perhaps be more perceptive to relationships I have with people who have less than desirable intentions, and that ignorance towards issues - in this example, mental health - can have devastating results.
It scares me thinking about what I've went through, then thinking of how much worse it could have been - people die as a result of mental health issues. I think about how people can negatively affect your mental health, like in my case, but it makes me think more about how I am with others. If you are cruel to another human being, someone who with mental health issues perhaps like depression, could you be the straw that breaks the camels back? I know it's a dramatic thought, but I know the feeling where people have made me feel below low about myself. Having sensitivity and just acknowledging that you do not know everything about a person and what they battle, could be the difference of negatively impacting someones mental wellbeing and supporting it. We all as people have a responsibility to be kind to each other. If anyone ever needed me, I can say confidently I'd be there for them - I would never give up on someone who is struggling and needs me. I've been studying the law of attraction a lot too, and even if you don't believe in the laws of karma: when you practice being compassionate, sensitive and supportive to others you are leading by example.
My mind is absolutely everywhere and so I am pretty sure that this post reads ridiculously and doesn't make much sense, but at the same time I don't want to read it back and redraft because I want it to keep it's authenticity. It's going to be a busy week tying up loose ends and sorting out everything before I leave for London next week, but I'm keeping a watchful eye on my health as my life takes on it's next potentially stressful but curious adventures.
