The combination of bipolar disorder and physical illnesse stir up a nasty concoction in me every time.  For example, depression and coughing collide while mania and fever slam into each other.  Or it could be insomnia butting heads with exhaustion.  You know the truth.  Bipolar or depression and everything in between are not going to take a vacation when you have laryngitis. 

The aftermath from the meeting of the two medical giants will generate lots of money shelled out at the pharmacy and a crick in the neck from sleeping on the couch for too long. 

Has this ever happened to you?  Yes?  Well, you are in good company.  I am the Queen of bipolar disorder and physical illness clashes.  Based on my experiences, I will give you some suggestions on how I survived the unwelcomed meet-up of the mental and the physical sides.

You can be a Survivor

When I come down with something which rubs against my mental illness symptoms in the wrong way, I usually fight hard against sleeping.  I lay awake staring at the ceiling.  I flip through the pages of a magazine.  I read a book I haven’t touched in months.  And of course, I play on my phone. 

During this entire time, the psychotropic meds sit defiantly untouched while I lay awake all night.  Over the years, I discovered two methods that helped me survive the battle between bipolar disorder and physical illness. 

Survivor Skill #1 – Get more sleep

When I feel under the weather, like with a cold, I get so tired that I practically collapse into bed from just laying around doing nothing all day. The truth is we all need sleep!  However, not everybody gets the right amount of shut-eye.  Below is the most up-to-date sleep data for the United States.

• 50% to 80% of the patients in a regular American psychiatric office are sleep deprived;
• Compare this to the 10% to 18% of adults in the general population who experience sleep deprivation; and finally
• Sleep deprivation costs the US $411 billion annually.

Getting the correct amount of sleep for a mentally and physically well human being, each night is crucial.  If you throw in a mental illness as well as the flu into the mix, the stakes go up.  A sleep-deprived person (with any type of illness) driving a car is as impaired to get behind the wheel and stomp on the gas as a person who is driving drunk.  This is serious stuff!

The bottom line here is to create an environment that will promote healthy sleep.  This is what we call good sleep hygiene.  It’s important to establish this level of health in order to function properly throughout the day.

Appropriate sleep hygiene means the following:

• Winding down before you get into the bed;

• Having an set bedtime;

• No interruptions during the night;

• Getting enough sleep; and 

• Waking up so that you feel rested. 

I am still attempting to achieve good consistent sleep hygiene. In the end, sleeping all the hours and minutes my body needs will, at the very least, assist me with decisions. 

These decisions could be determined by the following questions: “How many hours of sleep do I need to get?”, or “Should I take my prescribed medications while I am sick with a stomach virus?”

Survivor Skill #2 – Take your psychotropic medicine

Some of us have a tendency to skip our meds whether healthy or sick. I do take my medicine when I am well most of the time.  Although when I am physically sick, I often go down kicking and screaming because I do not want to take my regular psychiatric tablets. 

Here is what happens: My mind believes that my body’s mental health will carry on if I press pause on taking the remedy for my mental illness symptoms. With each passing hour to each passing day, my mental acuity tends to suffer greatly.

Every day, I experience varying levels of the following: short bouts odepression, psychosis, mania and little to no ability to stay focused to name a few. 

If you take the above symptoms and mix them up real good, give the potion an electric shock, then you will have my high alert bipolar symptoms while contending with a fever, mucus, muscle aches, congestion and pains.  Then if I stop taking any of my psychotropic medicines please add a triple shot to that espresso.  

But the thing is, when I take all of my meds, my depression is more easily handled by usual treatments.  The psychosis is still there, but it is back to its old pattern where I can better manage the paranoia and hallucinations.  The mania is deflated for now and tucked away in a drawer until another day.  And I can focus better than I did when I was not medicated.

Conclusion

I fulfilled my promise to you, my reader.  In this blog post, I told you that from my experiences, getting enough sleep and taking my daily meds are the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  These methods are used in order to ease up the time on the sidelines of life as well as the tough symptoms of bipolar and your sinus infection.  When I become physically ill while living with a mental illness, it can be a madhouse. 

Call to Action

Do you feel a triple dose of your symptoms happening to you whenever you experience mental illness episodes and physical sickness?  Please share how you got through that flu, stomach bug, sinus infection or cold.  You can either write a comment in the section below or send an email to me at [email protected].

References

References will be given upon individual requests.

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12 Bipolar GIF’s

1. My moods cannot be controlled as if scheduling them on a calendar.

Oh, how I wish I could control my moods that way!  I will never be depressed in the morning or the afternoon or evening.  Or when it is raining.  Or when my husband goes to work.  My racing thoughts would shut up when I go to bed, get a massage or get a shower or bubble bath.  I will have just the right amount of mania to help me tackle the cleaning. Or to have it when I am at the grocery store so I can get out of there fast.  

You get what you get.  Manic, hypomanic or depressed.

Bipolar is a brain disorder, too.  I am incapable of stopping or starting the bipolar roller coaster that is going on inside my head.  The chemicals in my brain fire or do not fire due to bipolar.  I take medicine to help push or pull my brain in the right direction so I can function.

2.  This is a pretty good illustration of my bipolar moods every day.  It is rare that I would go a day without my moods shifting in any direction.  As you see in the cell phone GIF, this represents just how quickly my moods can change. 

Just recently, I spoke with a woman who has bipolar, too.  She was explaining how long she goes between episodes.  “Wow!  Good for her!” I thought.  For me,I have ultradian cycling most of the day or mixed episodes. This basically means my moods change a bunch.  

3.  This is what it looks like in my mind during a manic episode. I am   constantly thinking and talking to myself.  The ideas are coming in like a meteor shower.  I feel alive.  Excited.  I can climb Mt. Everest by myself.  I am signing up for all kinds of opportunities without any time to dedicate to them.  Buying all kinds of shoes and purses.  And talking to people who I have been avoiding for months.

4.  Sometimes, I act out at the grocery store when I am manic-y with rage.  It does’t take much.  I may be standing in a mile-long line, the person in front of me is not going fast enough, the item I want to purchase is not available or the aisle I want to enter has a shopping cart jam.  Sometimes words actually come out.  In the state of mood I am in, I do not care it I am heard.  And sometimes they are all trapped in my mind, unable to scream out due to prayer.  Yes!  Prayer.  Needless to say, I do a lot of praying while at the grocery.  .

5.  This is me when my thoughts flow easily and are also coherent and organized when I am writing.  They basically make sense, I am creative with boundless energy. I can stay up all night writing.  I feel young again.  I am a writing scholar.  Dreams and delusions flood my mind about the present and the future.     

6.  This describes the sum of the various parts of my mind and body when I am in an ultradian cycle.  I tend to flip-flop between each pole.  The frequency of which the moods change could happen in months, years, weeks, days or hours.  I have managed to switch from depression to mania in mere seconds multiple times.  Tears falling from my eyes,staining my cheeks.  At the same time, I am laughing like I’m mad.  It scared the shit out of my husband.  Now that says a lot, because he is a real tough guy. 

7.  This is when I cannot write PERIOD.  I cannot form sentences, paragraphs – not to mention thoughts or ideas!  This is happening a great deal lately. I started drafts of about six or more blog posts from the beginning of February up until now.  NONE of the drafts have been completed and published.  Today, I was depressed most of the day and it has taken me all day long to work on a post.  It still will not be finished in time to publish.  The depression always stunts the growth of the creativity.  

8.  When I have a bipolar road rage moment, I sound my horn, loudly and proudly.  That is really as far as it goes in the real world. Now I might drive more aggressively to my destination, let the incident stew  in my head and even tell my husband with grandeur what happened once he gets home from work.  I’m so glad brains are private and horns are loud.  

9.  This is me when I am in a mixed episode.  During a mixed episode, you experience both mania and depression at the same time.  Whenever I am mixed, I cannot make up my mind what I want to do because both poles are tugging at me  What I usually do in a mixed state is just sit there and stare into nothing.  

10.  This is my psychotic brain everyday.  Hallucinations in all five senses.  

Delusions that never go away.  Paranoid in my own house and outside my house.  I do not like going to bed for fear of what will be done to me.  And I had a psychotic break.

11. GIF’s of people who have bipolar. They look just like all the other people around them.  They are moms, dads, brothers, sisters, painters, teachers, doctors, chefs, actresses, pastors, secretaries, judges, counselors, you name it.

Carrie Fisher

  Bradley Cooper

Delonte West

 Ernest Hemmingway

Amy Winehouse

Catherine Zeta-Jones

References

https://giphy.com/explore/bipolar-happiness

https://giphy.com/search/bipolar-road-rage

https://giphy.com/search/bipolar-laptop-rage

https://giphy.com/search/bipolar-psychotic

https://giphy.com/explore/carrie-fisher

https://www.google.com/search?q=Delonte+West&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=_fzgt2CwnGrgkM%253A%252Ct5xKnBBdP5bTyM%252C_&usg=__jESq5PPSCwbeka_oCHX0dBxWZ1o%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVrJSQh9jZAhWGxFkKHW3LAJoQ_h0I7AEwEQ#imgrc=_fzgt2CwnGrgkM:

https://giphy.com/search/bipolar

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This constant back and forth on the mood spectrum is where you get the rollercoaster ride.  I hate it.  With my flavor of bipolar, I am prone to the ups and downs of the disorder more frequently than some.  That is where ultra-rapid cycling comes in.

Ultra-rapid cycling – depression

For instance a typical day might look like me struggling to get out of bed.  Trying to decide if I am going to exercise.  If I can just work out for at least 10 minutes, I will count it as a victory.  Although, the other day I spent only 5 minutes exercising.  Although the time was short, it was much better than going back to sleep on the couch.

Continuing in the depressed side of the bipolar, I will struggle through writing projects during that morning.  It is as if my brain is set in concrete.  I stare into space.  I stare at the computer screen.  I cannot focus on any one task.  Sometimes I give in and go to sleep.

ultra-rapid cycling bipolar

I look at my calendar and see that I have an appointment that afternoon.  Nope.  That is getting canceled.  It does not matter if it is a therapy session, doctor’s appointment or coffee with a friend, if I am feeling afraid to go out of the house, I won’t.  Some days, since I work from home, I never leave the house.

Ultra-rapid cycling – mania

Then in the middle of the afternoon, I will feel like “Wonder Writer” with the advent of a manic high.  Ideas will piece together and not be discombobulated.  I will be able to edit previous works.  And that conclusion on the article I have been working on the last two days finally gets wrapped up.

ultra-rapid cycling bipolar

As the night wears on, I will get spikes in the mania and dips of hypermania.  I spend the evening chatting away at 90 mph or I write like there’s no tomorrow.

What will tomorrow bring

I can never really plan for sure what my mood is going to be the next day.  What I have realized over the years, is that individual moods do not stay around for very long.  One of the reasons I started this Life Conquering ministry to mentally ill individuals is that I want them to know there is someone like me out there who understands what they are going through.  My support group is very small and is mainly friends.  Friends who know what  I am going through from their own experiences.  Or friends who are really good at being empathetic and not try to give me prefabricated advice.  On some days, it is just me and God.

I also have mixed episodes where you experience both mania and depression at the same time.  It is a horrible sensation.  Almost as if you are the tug-of-war rope and you are being split in half.  I remember when I first realized I was having a mixed episode.  It was creepy.  Whenever I cannot make up my mind, I know I am probably in a mixed episode.  For instance, I need to work on an article for Blasting News.  At the same time, I need to write a blog and do some research.  I glance at all three and I have no idea which to start with.  It takes me some time to figure it out and when I do, I might change it.

I can imagine you guessed the next wonderful mood experience that I have quite often.  Yep.  I have ultra-rapid cycling episodes occurring at the same time as a mixed episodes.  Can you image how that might feel?

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References

I have shared with you some websites that might be of interest to you on this subject.

https://natashatracy.com/bipolar-disorder/dealing-rapid-cycling-bipolar-moods-everyday-life/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8833685

http://www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_brochures_bipolar_disorder_rapid_cycling

Bipolar Disorder Symptoms – Are You Missing the Subtle Signs?

Bipolar Roller Coaster – A Not-so-Lonely Ride

Mental Illness: Making a Decision, Heads or Tails

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Every day is an up and down; up, up, up; down, down, down; or a twist and turn on a mental ride I call the bipolar roller coaster.  I ride the ups of the roller coaster when I fight the risky urges of mania.  The downs of the roller coaster bring me to my knees when simple chores around the house become too overwhelming for me.  The twists and turns of the mental illness makes me lonely when I shy away from people in the community or even my church.

Help is within reach

Holy Spirit

It dawned on me that since I am a Christian, I have the Holy Spirit living inside me.  When Christ left this earth, He promised His Holy Spirit would come and dwell inside us for all eternity.  Now, I have always known I have the Holy Spirit inside me since my decision to become a Christian at 9 years old.  But this fact took on a whole new meaning in light of my endless bipolar rides.  I thought to myself, the Holy Spirit is coming along for each and every ride?  The Holy Spirit answered within me a resounding “Yes!”

Loneliness on the roller coaster

In the midst of my mental illness, I spend a lot of time feeling alone.  My husband is getting so much better at knowing what to say or do in my time of grief just by being patient with me.  It hasn’t been perfect, but we are slowly getting there.

Loneliness

My husband could never fully comprehend what it is like to spend a day trapped on my bipolar rollercoaster.  Actually, I do not want him to know what it is like.  I wouldn’t wish this madness on my worst enemy.  It is a living nightmare never knowing what mood is going to engulf you from one minute to the next and having absolutely no control over it.  Then you have to ride it out until the next mood comes along.

The loneliness disappears

Realizing the Holy Spirit is with me through every stomach churning hill on my bipolar rollercoaster, I do not feel so alone.  I can pray to God knowing His Holy Spirit is camped out in my heart.  Sometimes I do not know what to say because my head is so out-of-focus or is experiencing rapid thoughts.  The Bible says the Holy Spirit intercedes for us with groanings (Romans 8:26).  That gives me great comfort knowing that He will go to God on my behalf and cry for me with the perfect words my heart is trying to say.

Prayer

The next time you feel alone whether you are going through a divorce, loss of a baby, lost a job, empty nest syndrome or had an automobile accident, realize you have the Holy Spirit dwelling inside you if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.  Reach out to Him.  Depending upon your translation, John 14:26 calls the Holy Spirit an Advocate, Helper, Comforter or Counselor.  Let the Holy Spirit come and cry to God for you.

My Comforter has helped me in my loneliness a multitude of times.  He will do the same for you.  He is also there when I am angry with rage, impatient, waiting for a test result, having relationship issues, a clog in the creativity drainpipe, or when the money is low.  Trust in Him.  Believe in His presence.  God gave us the Holy Spirit so we may have His spirit within us on earth.

Call to Action

Do you have the Holy Spirit living inside you right now?  If you do, great!  Teach someone else about Him.  If you do not, then I want to reach out to you.  Please email me at [email protected].  I would love to speak with you and guide you to Jesus.  You may also want to look at some of the Going Further websites.

Going Further

https://www.christianitytoday.com/iyf/advice/faithdoubt/what-does-holy-spirit-do.html

http://www.ligonier.org/blog/five-truths-about-holy-spirit/

https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/holy-spirit-bible-verses/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPPMSfCdUng

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Do you have a mental illness? You could have anxiety or schizophrenia or any number of the other mental illnesses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.  When the feeling strikes that you have a decision to make with no idea what to do, it can be a scary thing.  Your mental illness has formed a shroud over your head.  You feel temporarily paralyzed.

For instance, anxiety disengages the part of the brain that is imperative to decision making. “Schizophrenia patients with prominent positive symptoms were unable to integrate cognitive and emotional components of decision making which may contribute to their inability to generate adaptive behaviours in social and individual environments.” (1)  And we must not forget, bipolar disorder.  With the various and numerous mood swings, they make it extremely difficult to nail down a decision.  This is especially the case during manic episodes.

mental illness

Symptoms of the inability to make a decision

• Brain fog;
• Paralyzed;
• Unable to conjure up basic problem solving skills;
• The world does not turn to black and white. Everything is a muted gray so it makes it even more difficult to make a decision;
• Your brain is sawed in half;
• Your brain is asleep;
• Stressed;
• Feel wrong making any decision or no decision;
• Overwhelmed;
• A heavy weight on you;
• Cannot function;
• Distracted;
• Annoyed; and
• Emotional.

How to overcome

1. Make a list – When I need to make a big decision, I have been told to make a list ever since I was a teenager. Whenever I had a big decision to make like where to go to college, I got out a piece of paper and filled that paper until the lists were exhausted.  Taking the time out of the very emotional experience of making a decision, helps to clear our minds, relax us, breathe and see the big picture.
2. Cool down the emotions – Like I said before, being mentally ill and trying to make a decision is very emotional. Make a list of the emotions you would feel making each decision. Go to a quiet place and close your eyes.  Feel the emotions drain out of you onto the floor.    Relax.  Once you relax, you can look at the situation in a different light and make a sound decision.
3. Sleep on it – You probably heard someone say to “sleep on it”. My husband and I have done this with big purchases like a vehicle or a home.  It is as if all the chemicals in your head got together and made a decision for you.  Then, the next morning you feel confident in your decision.
4. Tell the truth – This has happened to me lots of times where I get caught up in trying to make the decision and I lie to myself. Yes!  All these previous suggestions can help you distinguish between the truth and a lie.
5. Take your time – Some decisions can take a couple minutes, hours or days to make. If you have the time, take every second.  Make your list, sleep on it.  It will help you make a clearer choice.
6. Talk it out – Find someone in your life whom you trust and has a history of making good decisions. Go talk to them. Take your pros and cons list.  Discuss these items and hear what he or she has to say.  Remember, their answer does not have to agree with yours in the end.

Call to Action

Share this information with a friend who has mental illness or share it with a friend who you know needs help making decisions.

mental illness

Comments

Tell me how you make your decisions in the comments below.  Or you may email me at [email protected].

References

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20022219

Going Further

https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2014/02/03/do-you-have-difficulty-making-decisions/

http://www.heysigmund.com/anxiety-interferes-decision-making-stop-intruding/

https://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/breakingbipolar/2015/07/depression-i-cant-make-a-decision-everything-feels-wrong/

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The mania, depression has given me a break…for now.  Yes, there are times when I feel “normal”.  Feeling normal is not the norm for me.  For most bipolars, he/she experiences one or two cycles a year.  The maanic episodes usually occur in the spring or fall.

I have bipolar 1 which is difficult to treat.  When I do feel normal, I know that it is a fleeting moment.  For instance, when I got up this morning I felt great.  I had energy to exercise.  I did not take a shower because it would take too much energy.  A couple hours later, I felt energized.  The creativity was blossoming/  Later in the morning I was irritated.  Now, I can take a long nap.  Sometime during those up and down moods, I felt somewhat normal, more even keel.

I am going to discuss how mania and depression look to me.  If you were to speak to another bipolar 1 they could give your something different.  My bipolar 1 looked a lot different in my 20’s than it does right now.  My bipolar would have me trolling Yahoo Personals for men and driving here and yonder  in the attempt to hook up with a different man every night.  Bipolar 1 is different for each person.

Mania, Depression

At this stage of my bipolar 1, I experience both the mania and depression.  For me, it is not as if the depression hangs around for a couple of days or weeks.  Nor do I ride the highs of mania just for a weekend shopping spree.  My flavor of bipolar 1 intermingles the mania and depression.  I have what are called mixed episodes and rapid cycling.

Mixed Episodes

Mixed episodes are where I will have the dark moods of depression occurring at the same time as the exciting highs of mania.  I will never forget the first time I felt this.  I was still employed at a law firm.  I was sitting at my desk when this warm sensation started from my toes and bubbled up to the top of my head.  At the same time, I felt my body being gradually ripped apart.  Imagine having the explosive feeling like you can do 100 things at the same time.  Combine that with the paralyzing feeling of a dark depression where you cannot hardly move.

Rapid Cycling

Then there is rapid cycling where I have gone from having a manic high as a kite to a six-foot-under-the-ground depression.  Each mood can last for a few seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months before cycling to the next.  The most memorable experience I had with rapid cycling was when I was riding in the truck with my husband on a Saturday around lunch time.  I was talking rapidly about something obscure when I began laughing hysterically, then crying uncontrollably to laughing to crying.  This cycle lasted for about a minute.  I was exhausted.  He was amazed.  Most of the rapid cycles I have now last longer than a few seconds.  My cycles are more in the hour range.

Mania, Depression = Courage

So whether you have just depression or bipolar or mixed or cycling, depression and mania are not for the weak at heart.  It takes courage to walk this life and put up with these mood disorders at the same time.

Mental Health Questions

Have you had depression, mania, rapid cycling or mixed episodes?  If yes, please describe.

Do you know anybody who has experienced these mood changes?  What was it like for them and you?

Do you know what to do when you or someone like your son or daughter have these mood swings?  Next blog I will have more information on this.

Your Comments

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Going Further

Bipolar 1 Episode causes a Mental Health Blogger to go Missing in Action

https://plus.google.com/103662408134261183066/posts/JdcG5MsTKD1

http://www.webmd.com/bipolar-disorder/features/bipolar-disorder-managing-mania#1

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/depression-what-you-need-to-know/index.shtml

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