Lack of Energy with Bipolar Disorder - Symptom or Medication

I simply do not enjoy anything anymore, I dont want anything, I have no goals, no desires, except to die. I feel like I am dead inside, I am just hoping for the outside to die. I no this talk is hard for others to understand. I just dont know what to do.

Thanks for any advice you all give. I guess that is why I am writing this.

2blue

Hey 2blue,

please read some of the posts again, there are some things that could help you, please read especially my last one about taking baby steps, often we fail to get better from depression etc because we try to take on too much & then fail so trying again becomes even harder. Like when someone goes for lots of job interviews & gets nowhere they get fed up & give up.

Don't give up, read the posts, choose just one or two really simple things & concentrate on doing those each & every day for say one month & see how it goes.

You should choose something that you find easy, like putting up smilies or saying one positive thing to yourself alot each day, or taking some natural anti-depressants (5htp, sam-e, dhea, vitamin b's, st johns wort, etc) just something you can cope with.

Good luck & pm me if you want to chat.

I am not looking in from the outside, I look out from the same windows, and at one time, I was in the same frame of mind.

You need a kick start with some new meds, but then you just need a kick, kick yourself in the butt and do something. The power to change your life is within you! I agree with purple, smile, laugh and get your body moving. Watch comedies on tv they make you laugh, which produces endorphins, that make you feel good. Excercising or moving your body also produces endorphins which make you feel good. If you start somewhere, maybe you can start doing things because you actually feel good. Chocolate also produces the feeling of being loved! Isn't that great news.

21 days to make a habit. Start a new habit and make it a good one. The power is within you! Do something for you. Look in the mirror and tell yourself you are worth loving, someday you will start to believe!


Good luck

mia

Your right mia.
Im going to give it a try. And, I am also going to demand that my meds get changed, or I am finding a new Dr. Somehow. This is my life, and I cannot expect someone else to make it better for me.
Thankyou so much for the advice. And, you to purple....

Ok, here goes.

suzanne

Way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your first positive action is just making the decision to do something! Congradulations!!!!

Now start a new habit. Look in the mirror everyday and say i'm worth loving and living!

Have a great day

mia

Hi. I am brand new here. I registered, wrote a post (a loonngg one) and then was told I needed to log in??? I think I am ok now.

I will make this shorter than my last post that I don't think was posted. The jest of it was addressed mostly to the 2 (or more) that wanted to be dead.
Whooosh!! Do I ever know that one. But I KNOW, yes, I said I KNOW that self pity is our arch enemy. He is a liar and a thief. One of the best there is in the spiritual realm. As a person sits commiserating with theirself they fail to hear the voice of God. You know...
His is a small, still voice.
We don't see or recognize our signs. We are too busy letting our mind have its own way. God gives signs. I am sorry, I did not notice the posters' names but in atleast 1 of their posts I saw a sign from God given to that person. Did you not recognize that as you attempted to kill yourself, you were not successful??? That was God - a sign that it is His will that you live. If that is what He wants, will you want it to? It sounds like you are yearning for God. You will have a clearer "reception line" if you 2 are in agreement on things, (such as whether you live or die) and not only that.

There is good advice here. I especially liked the "baby steps". I remember when my friend and I were first seeking God and His will. I cannot tell you how many conversations we had over our darn little baby steps. We wanted to run and hurl ourselves into Him, not take those annoying little baby steps but the further we got along in our search the more sure we both were that to know Him - not just about Him - a person will have to take the little steps that we all take even to get to really know one another. We still laugh at our first "babysteps" that we so impatiently walked. Oh, and by the way...even though my search has gone on for nearly 50 years in all, I often find I am right back to those babysteps until He calms me down and genuinely gets my attention so I can (spiritually) hear what He wants to tell me.
Right now we live by faith (believing without seeing). But He has promised someday we will no longer need faith because we will see face to face!! I can't hardly wait!!!

Lastly, I think bi-polars are some of the most interesting, imaginative and bright people alive. Quite often we are a riot!! I hope we all will begin to look for our signs from God. They will show us the way. Remember..
His is a small, still voice. In that way, He gets you where you need to be in order to hear....centered on Him, not on ourselves.
No criticism from this sister bi-polar...just alot of love and understanding.
Nanzie