Posted by babbgal on June 6, 2004, at 22:29:38
In reply to Bipolar 2 and Isolation, posted by Pandabear on June 6, 2004, at 20:41:00
Pandabear, I can totally understand what you are going through...and I'm glad you say that you "need time to focus on getting better" and that "I just need some help. I dont know what my therapist is going to say when I talk to her but im really interested to find out." That's good. Talk to your therapist.
Geez...the parent thing. I was diagnosed as bipolar II, rapid cycling over a year ago, and I haven't told my parents or my sister what is going on. I see a psychiatrist every two weeks and a Ph.D. for therapy at least twice a week (sometimes more!) -- so this is taking up huge chunks of my life, and they have no idea. I live in California, and they live in Massachusetts. It's become a huge issue in my therapy that I was the one who didn't have "permission" to leave, that my husband "took me away." (His job was the reason we relocated.) It was absolutely the best thing for me to do, but as I get stronger, my parents say things on the phone like, "We used to have such nice talks and now it sounds like you don't want to talk to us." Well, it's because I'm working through very important things that I don't want to divulge to you...and of course that is isolating... (And they don't talk to my husband...)
I have my husband, and it sounds like you have a close friend at work you feel comfortable talking to? That's good. And keep your therapist close, too.
Anyway, I'll be thinking about you...and I'm sure everyone else here on the babble board will be, too. Many, many hugs, pandabear...
babbgal.
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