Conquering Life Through Christ
Difficulty Coping with Depression Just like many other mental illnesses, depression distorts how someone thinks. The sun may be shinning without a cloud in sight and inside the mind of a depressed person they may feel so dark and gloomy,…
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For people like me with bipolar as well as other types of mental illnesses, stress is a huge trigger for our symptom relapses. I have been in many situations where I had been feeling good one moment — practically stable…
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Many times it feels as if the bipolar is in control of me. I have learned in order to get ahead of the bipolar, I must get a better handle on myself: I must accept that I have a mental…
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Do you get stressed out during the holidays? Spending time with difficult family members. Being asked to attend numerous social functions which stretches your social anxiety, energy level, money management and time management Christmas shopping in a manic state while having difficulties…
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One of my favorite Christmas sermons was a sermon that was not even centered on the baby in the manger. The focus of the sermon was the genealogy of Jesus. Jesus’ Family Tree Now I know that must sound boring….
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Over the course of my bipolar treatment, I have seen major depression that lasted for months on end, a decade of mania, mixed episodes, rapid cycling, and peculiar physical pains without any medical explanations as well as hallucinations. These characteristics…
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For the past two years or more, I have lived immersed into the world of bipolar with all the depression, mania, mixed episodes, rapid cycling, scrambled thoughts and hallucinations. My mind has been obsessed all this time with my symptoms….
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I have been having difficulty with my mental illness for the past ten months. Recently I have been having mixed episodes. Mixed episodes in bipolar is where you can experience a depressive mood like have no energy that you can…
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Questions In Psalm 77, Asaph, the writer was apparently in a very desperate situation. He cried out to God (v. 1). Looking towards heaven, he stretched empty arms (v. 2). There were troubling thoughts in his head floating around about…
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The Negative Thoughts I was having a not-so-good day and my mind was in its usual modus operandi (“MO”). In my MO, I tend to dwell on all the bad things that are happening to me at the present moment….
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Self-talk In a May 2015 article in Psychology Today entitled “The Voice of Reason” the author discusses the research behind self-talk. Self-talk is where you use your inner voice to speak words to yourself in any given situation. For instance,…
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Wouldn’t it be great to have a mood radar like we have weather radars? The meteorologists can observe the weather radar and predict what atmospheric conditions a specific region will experience ahead of time. Why can’t we have a mood…
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