why u guys keep yelling to eachother lmao😭

Love your bipolar logo lol ❤

Gabe and Dr Nicole. So glad i found you. I was or am falling into the trap of always relating to my nephew about his bipolar. Instead of just treating him like a human. I like the touching idea and the free range. I love my nephew like a son. Wow, thank you for opening my eyes and helping me.

Would you please explain sensory overload

1st comment!!!😮😊🎉

Its a brain disorder . I work at minimizing its effect on my life .

Thank you so much Gabe and Dr Nicole for this. Gabe, I've stumbled on your channel when doing research about my new found diagnosis. I've been living with these symptoms and experiences since my teens but never understood it until recently. Your work is invaluable. It's so good to be able to listen to someone who can relate to these life experiences like me on a platform as big as KZbin. You are doing amazing work. Please don't stop what you guys are doing. Thank you so much Gabe and Dr Nicole

I totally agree Gabe.

People say not to disagree with delusions, but what do you do when you're the partner and the main target? Also, the person is a narcissist to begin with? What do you do when you're followed around and harassed with delusions and you can't leave? What do you do when you are being accused of sleeping with the whole city, prostitution, doing drugs, molesting your kids, prostituting your daughter for drugs, contacting their friends to talk about them, etc.? Nobody says how to deal with that. This isn't my child.. it's my husband! He also holds full control over my life. The control of me and the kids gets worse and worse corelation with delusions. He won't let us leave the house!

Great talk!

Emery my strong beautiful girl you are more then what others think you are

slow relapse lithium does not cause dry mouth. I accidentally discovered that.

❤ way to go

Moving slow can be painfully slow too - in the instance of side effect neuro muscular pain brought on by treatment. It's like falling out of the sky, to drag the legs through cold grease. I think the very neat term for this is 'muscle stiffness', and as I said 'neuro muscular pain'. This side effect form of 'slow', during treatment to 'come down' - is catastrophic. Really makes life actually worse. One holds to adages like 'it gets worse before it gers better'. - for reference: Type 2 bp, late life diagnosis, in treatment; middle aged woman.

Thank you.

OMG I experience the mirror and seeing things as well

It infuriates me seeing this trend, like if you truly understood what it means to have this nightmare, you would sell your soul to be free of it.

I mostly get mad when they give me a form with one line and ask me to list all my medications or hospitalizations.

I tell the psychiatrist how I have been doing for the last month or so.

Loved the repore :)

Thank you!

I thought it was just a phase that you grow out of it you don't. It's a serious disorder that not only can harm yourself others as well un planned pregnancy and sti. Putting yourself in danger could get rapped beaten up break up of relationships. It's good that you are speaking about it let's hope this gets less embarrassing to talk about

I think that a lot of people just don't want to accept that they are mentally ill. Let alone mentally ill for life. Side effects are the main reason I would want to stop medicine. But I only went off them once in 30 years. I don't want to increase hospitalizations. So I put up with the side effects. I am also unusual in that I want to go off medicine more when I am doing poorly. Because I feel like it is not working. But I still stay on my medication.

Where I live providers leave to work other places pretty frequently. I have had so many psychiatrists and counselors in 30 years (even though I am living in the same city). That I don't remember all of them. If someone is medium to good (for me) I keep them. If they are really rude or incompetent I get a new person. Most are at least medium good.

Stand Up for Mental Health is a good program. Have you heard of it?

I would be interested to go on a tour of some old mental hospitals.

Many mentally ill people have gallows humor.

It's horrible for the spouse. You are resistant to help and when your spouse finally gets you to a intake assesment , because your delusions are possible and you appear otherwise normal they tell you your fine and send you on your way. Meanwhile your spouse is a victim of your delusion. You accuse her of untrue things, treat her like an enemy. Snoop and monitor her. The connection is lost. She becomes alone while living with someone who sees her as an enemy. Othello is the worst. I am the spouse who lives with a spouse who gets othello and paranoid delusions. It has ruined our lives. It has drained me of all financial security and getting them help is a lonley hopeless journey because they are non bizarre. The can be dangerous at times also.

I just seen you speak at the linc court. I just want to thank you for your time.

My boyfriend and I have been together for 13 years and we both have bipolar disorder. I think that bipolar can ruin relationships but it doesn't have to ruin relationships. I agree it is impossible for it not to affect your partner.

You can survive on disability with difficulty.

When I'm on the rollercoaster, all I want is stability. Now I finally achieve some stability, and I badly crave chaos. I don't know how to walk the medium path, I worry I only know how to sprint or lay down completely.

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Love you guys ❤

It is a tricky balance. I did feel like I was a failure for not overcoming my bipolar disorder.

How sad do you gotta be in life to take offense to the phrase, "the weather is bipolar".

100%

Sounds like South Carolina

I’m a survivor. My perpetrator was the neighbor next door. He groomed me and eventually began molesting me. This happened from 1959 - 1961. A long time ago. Because he told me “Boys who tell get taken away “ I never told anyone. My wife talked with me and I told her what happened. I finally began therapy. One of the best decisions I ever made.

W podcast! I’m still listening but I’m schizoaffective the bipolar type. Before I became mentally ill I never really believe do or understood mental illness, glad I learned and go through it myself because I appreciate life more, and now I advocate for ppl that are like me. So happy I’m not alone.

I’m a woman but I can relate to the men. When I was growing up I was abused. My problem was that while I was believed people have minimized my experience and my pain because it wasn’t rape. Because of this I don’t mention it and I don’t give details for fear that I’ll be minimized. 27:14

Thank you for this interview. It helps. I was sexually abused from 4 to 16 by my mother and it left me with deep isolation and rage, sexual confusion, and self-destructive behavior. My youth pastor and several teachers that I told did not believe me back while it was happening so the abuse continued. I am doing intense self work now and getting healing. But I kept my trauma locked up for 18 years until I was willing to disclose. My mother also worked at an elementary school for ten years and still lives free today.

The term: "Toxic Masculinity" is not a real thing. Masculinity is not toxic, there is toxic behavior committed by both male and female

Sometimes, the experts and those thriving at a high level can be as inimidating as motivational depending on people's struggle.

I was molested by a 40 yr old woman when I was 5 if my mom had not came upstairs when she did I'm sure that brute would had done more..

Sexual abuse is about power, control, domination and devaluation. I got molested by my female doctor earlier this year. It took me a while to figure out exactly what happened. She did it right in front of a female nurse. The presence of this nurse was twofold. One was to oppress a male patient, and the other was for this female doctor to demonstrate her power in front of her female subordinate to show her how easy it was, that is, by first getting the male patient on antidepressants then dangling them as bait and as a means of mind control. What this goes to prove is that SOME people (REGARDLESS of gender) cannot be trusted with POWER. Unchecked, these people run amok.

I tried to learn something from this but what’s wrong with these two people?

Yes, it sunder reported, I’m a victim from way back,

Thank you...🤜🤛