How do you make a bad situation into a good situation?

Julie powers all of New York with her bipolar tears!

These are the signs I'm in a situation that's bad for my bipolar:

1. Trouble sleeping. I actually always have trouble sleeping, but in these situations I can't sleep at all without sleep meds.

2. Crying and crying and crying. The waterfall I wrote about before.  Crying a river.  My eyes are all red today from crying all day yesterday. It's not that I want to cry- and it's not that the situation even warrants that much crying- it's just what my depression does in stressful situations.

3. Feel hopeless and trapped. My brain starts to say terrible things about my past and my future and then I feel I have to get out of my present situation and just run away. I used to do that!

I knew yesterday that making decisions during a waterfall session is not a [ Read More ]


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