Still kicking huh?

I started this blog when I didn’t understand what bipolar was.

I wrote back then when I felt a certain way that I couldn’t explain.

This blog has helped me and hurt me.

I’m glad that this site still pops up to help led people in a way that’s positive and unique.

I hope if this blog helps you or has helped you that you pass it along. I will not let it die because I remember a time when I couldn’t find anything to help me.

Stay strong my friends. The illness is still real and still will attack. I have learned my own tricks, tips, and warning signs that I didn’t have in the beginning.

You will get there….

❤️ ohtemp

This blog

I loved this blog. This blog was me. Now I don’t know who I am. My mental is bad and I’m just not the person I use to be.

I don’t know if this blog ever helped you but if it did I’m glad.

Right now I could use a little help…

Stay strong my friends

Athletics and Mental Health

Athletes are people too.

They are extreme mega people who do extreme mega things.

It’s hard to get with it all the time and preform at your best. It takes skill for the mind and sometimes that skill isn’t there.

There is no mental health program for major athletes because they expect them to be ON all the time. To be STRONG all the time.

If the Nike slogan say to JUST DO IT, what do you think they have to do.

People need to understand that we are people first. Whether we run fast or hit a ball, people are people.

BP Art: Anger, which are you?

Are you angry right now? What does it feel like? What does it look like??

Take that break Simone!

So Simone sat out the Olympics because of mental health.

GO GIRL GO!!!!!!!

If your head isn’t there, you can do anything. This is a major step in the right direction for mental health awareness. This girl went out, noticed something was up, and made sure she was okay. Who can say they do that on a regular?

I hope this helps the world understand that mental health is an issue for us all, not just for the “crazies”. We all deal with it, whether we like it or not

Need some Addiction Help?

https://www.onlinetherapy.com/addiction-resources/

I got a great email from Grace over at Online Therapy who recommended a great start for people who need some addiction advice and where to start!

Click the link to check it out and make sure you check out OnlineTherapy.com

What’s your drug of choice?

Pills, Cannabis, TV?

What’s your choice of drug to help you through your bipolar mess?

I’m not going to lie. I USE cannabis. I remember a time when I would smoke and all the crazy emotions inside me would shut up. I would go into this weird zone where I would feel good and cloudy all at the same time.

Now. I USEA Cannabis but a used rug. It doesn’t do anything for me anymore. I have medication for my mind but why can’t I let this old friend go then?

I still love the way it gets me out of my mind, relaxes me, and gives me something to do but other than that it’s a stagnant bunch of crap.

What choices are you trying to get away from that popped up for you in the beginning of your journey?

Bipolar Tunes

Sometimes SHIT comes around

And it knocks you down

Just get BACK UP

When it knocks you down

I know this isn’t a mental illness song but it’s lyrics can definitely used in how we feel about stuff. Love feels the same as pain, shame, hate, anger. It’s all feelings and they all knock us damn down sometimes.

Get back up.

What does your Bipolar feel like right now?

I’m running fast, you?

Have you taken a mental note on how you are feeling for real?

Are you angry? Sad? Jealous? Nervous? Why? For no reason? Yeah, I understand you.

This Bipolar thing is hard. Emotions pop up on you for nothing, making you feel shit, then spiraling your day into mess.

Advice?

Medicine m? A good doctor? Observation. I have NO IDEA! That is a journey for you friend but KNOW that whatever you are feeling right now will pass, like shit through the body. It will go and come like a river, just keep paddling bro.

I hope that helped.

Bipolar isnt the illness, people are..

I keep hearing “they are bipolar” or “if they get off their meds, because they are bipolar”.

Who says being bipolar is a PROBLEM. It’s an illness that can happen to anyone. It’s something millions of people deal with everyday.

To tell someone you have bipolar disorder is really hard and liberating. Once done, it can not be undone.

So why do people make bipolar patients feel like there is SOMETHING WRONG.

Shit…why did I feel like there was a time something was wrong?

That is because our world deems disorders as crazy. When you get a job, they want to know if you have a disorder so if you POP off, they a record of you being “crazy”

Doctors make notes just in case something happens they can go back and say “here in your notes…you were crazy”

Oh..what a world. What a word.

Ps. I’m back.

Another Solider: Anthony Bourdain

I am so so surprised.

What happened? Did he leave any note? Man, I remember watching him and wanting to be him. Wanting to live his life.

His life was just like mine.

Another Solider Lost: Kate Spade

Goodbye Kate.

Your battle is over.

I’m sorry Mental Illness took you but don’t worry, millions of people will look at your story and decide suicide is not for them.

Suicide is not for you. It’s not for anyone.

Until next time…RIP

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/kate-spade-suicide-andy-spade-statement-after-designers-death-today-2018-06-06/

Gun Violence: The New Mental Illness 🤔

I recently got back into magazines and got a subscription to People.

Every week in People there is a real story about a real tragedy that always involves Mental Illness.

Instead of talking about Mental Illness and signs to help loved ones (so you dont tragically end of like that) they talk about why you wear orange…for Gun violence.

Gun violence? This man was going through severe depression and shoots himself and you blame the gun? You said before that your dad bought the gun he was okay. (or was he?) Something happened to make him not okay

It wasn’t the gun. Gun violence is horrible though but it is it just the problem.

I think if we focus more on the root of the tree, we could get to why the branches we acting crazy..

Authority vs. Mental Illed Woman.

I just shared with my boss that I’m kind of feeling salty about going down to part time. The reason I had to was because of horrible family issues.

His response was.. “well just do what I tell you and you’ll be fine”

🙄🤔

WHAT!? Do what you tell me to do? Is This isn’t a hierarchy. Is This is the ThunderDome? When was the time I did everything you tell me to and I felt fine about it?

My mental illness makes me hold on to everything and THAT was definitely something you shouldn’t have said.

Now.. I’ll probably do something shitty and regret it later but at least I know what a trigger is for me….

A U T H O R I T Y.

Kanye West, Welcome to the Club.

Hello Kayne.

Everyone here has been waiting for you. It’s cool. No judgment. The only thing we require is for you to be open, proactive, and try to get help. I’m not the right person to tell you that though, but it helps. 

Anyways, thank you and welcome abroad. If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to any one of us. There are about, umm, I don’t know, billions. ✌🏿

OhTemp

Kanye West dropped his new album “Ye” on Friday. In it, he says he has bipolar disorder and calls the mental illness his “superpower.” The controversial statement follows several months of recent controversy on Twitter in which the artist proclaimed his support for President Trump, opined that “love is infinite,” and alleged that slavery was […]

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