Thank you for this note, Mari.

I will have to make a point to check it out.

I love the moon too.

~ waves ~

WE can all look at the same moon and think of each other looking at the same moon....

beth

It's still hot here.
It was 91 degrees today.
Usually it starts cooling in Oct.
I'm ready for Oct.

M.

The leaves are changing colors and it is raining. It is kind of dark outside and it is only 11:47 am.

I am having my coffee and I will be doing homework as well. Today is my day off thank goodness!

Sharla

I read you loud and CLEAR! And lucky for me it's getting much cooler here already.

Interestingly, October has not infrequently been a mania / hypomania month for me... and i sure could use some o' dat right about now!!!



besides, i can't do too much damage with no social life and an empty wallet!

~ waves ~ wondering if the tide will turn with by with color of the leaves...

I am not sure what you mean by this double negative????
are you saying that you would like some hypomania?
I thought the welbutrin was making you hypomanic...sorry I am confused about how the meds are effecting you.
Know that I care and am wanting you to feel better as soon as possible.
wish I could help you.
bizi

hmmm, surely you can grace me a double negative every now and then?

i said it that way because October mania / hypomania is not frequent in an absolute sense, i seem to be more susceptible to it at this time of year. It has happened several times in the past.

As for my current symptoms, i do not recall saying the Wellbutrin was making me hypomanic. i think i said nervous agitated tense and activating, but even activating does not mean hypomania necessarily, and that is not my case in fact.

(it is really really really hard to describe.)

so what am i saying? feeling carefree, disinhibited, full of energy, motivated, enterprising and joyful - that would be FUN.

THIS (which, just for starters, IS inhibited, drained, tense, anxious, dispirited and emotionally fragile) is NOT FUN.

therein lies the difference. and a big difference it is.

i am sorry for the confusion. it IS confusing.

thank you for caring.

~ waves ~

p.s. of course, i know hypomania/mania wouldn't be "good" in the long run... i was sort of kidding... one can dream?

thank you for the explanation and with these symptoms they seem to present a rather mixed mood as I asked about before.there is a type of hypomania that is not fun in the least...I have had those before...it all gets confusing even for those of "us" who have this disorder.
and normal people are supposed to get it?????
bizi

however as i said before, when you asked, this does not feel like a mixed mood. not agitated depression, not dysphoria, not the not-fun hypomania.

having activating side effects doesn't automatically mean what i'm experiencing fits tidily - or even messily - into ANY "bipolar" mood description.

it's like being a nervous wreck, plain and simple? that happens to lots of people. bad case of, though. and, that is still NO FUN.

now, you could be right... and certainly are entitled to your view, but then we will have to agree to disagree about my "current labeling" right now.

~ waves ~

It was gorgeous!

Thanks for telling us about it Mari. I got to see it before sundown - it was neat seeing this ghostly orb in the dusk sky. Then I went to look at it again after dark of course, in full luminescent splendor!

I am glad you have a better view. I hope you had clear skies and got to see it as well.

~ waves ~