Hello All! The computers were packed at my hotel, so this is my first time for a blog.
I’m at the Depression, Bipolar Support Alliance in Norfolk, Virginia. It has been wonderful and very interesting – as well as stressful and sleep challenging!
Here is some funny stuff: I have my seminar on family wellness on Friday. It went really, really well according to the crowd- there were about 150 people. When I got my evaluations, they were very positive. My first thought was:
These are all fake! They are lying. No one can tell me the truth as they like me. This is quite funny, and it was funny at the time, but paranoia is not fun!
I’m very used to paranoia. It’s hard to fight, but easy to recognize when you know the signs.
I’ve had trouble sleeping, even thought I took my own advice and switched over time zones. I went to be at 2:00 last night which puts me on Portland time. I mention this a lot as a fun conference – with a lot of excellent conversation and my fun presentations is a recipe for disaster if I don’t get enough sleep!
I will write more tomorrow. I have so many stories and pictures. There was one woman who told a very funny joke- I have to find her to give her credit. Here is the joke.
I go to DBSA support meetings and we discuss our meds and we’ve all determined that we all get fat from Krispy Kreme donuts!
heehee. So, it’s not the Zyprexa!
Julie
I too was at the conference, and found your workshop on Relationships to be an excellent workshop.
Don’t know about others who have BiPolar Disorder who were at the conference, but by the end, I was beginning to feel the mania coming on. Too much auditory stimulation I suppose. As I write this, I am waiting on my dr to return my call, as I also started getting visual ‘distortions’ toward the end of the conference.
Julie, it was a pleasure to meet you at the conference.
I am usually a manic personality but on those dark and gloomy days when I am at home I turn on the lights in the rooms that are adjacent to the room I am in. I light up my house. The electric bill is a small price to pay to avoid SADD. I make a conscience effort to turn off all lights when I leave the house or turn off lights in rooms I’m not in but on SADD days I really let my lights shine.