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crosinski

(656 posts)
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 03:40 PM Jun 2025

Bipolar Two with Anxiety

Hello everyone. I’ve hung around this forum for at least a year posting now and then. I’ve decided to dive in and introduce myself. I’m a seventy year old woman with bipolar two and anxiety. My bipolar is controlled fairly well with a combination of drugs. Even though I take a medication for my anxiety too, it’s still a problem. For the last few months I’ve been meditating regularly. I think it’s helped with my anxiety because I’ve noticed a decrease in my fear of driving, which has always been a huge problem for me.

I’ve only been taking medication for my bipolar problem for the last few years. I wish I’d been diagnosed earlier! My life would have been different if my moods had been more stable. For example, I would have been able to hold down a better paying job and my husband and I would be better off now financially. I try not to dwell on this too much.

That’s me in a nutshell. Hope to talk to you soon.


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Bipolar Two with Anxiety (Original Post) crosinski Jun 2025 OP
Try free Yale Science of. Well Being course SheltieLover Jun 2025 #1
I did take that course! crosinski Jun 2025 #3
Good for you! SheltieLover Jun 2025 #4
that sounds very positive indeed! Skittles Jun 2025 #2
Well, we are around the same age, so we both dealt with the same problem. OldBaldy1701E Jun 2025 #5
Yes, my problems were routinely dismissed too. crosinski Jun 2025 #6

crosinski

(656 posts)
3. I did take that course!
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 03:47 PM
Jun 2025

It was very enlightening … I learned a lot about myself and how to make myself happy. Really good stuff, and you were the one who suggested it to me, so I thank you.

Skittles

(167,086 posts)
2. that sounds very positive indeed!
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 03:44 PM
Jun 2025

don't waste time analyzing the past, you did what you could with the knowledge you had at the time, as we all do.....best to take what you know now and move forward!

OldBaldy1701E

(8,925 posts)
5. Well, we are around the same age, so we both dealt with the same problem.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 07:11 AM
Jun 2025

Namely, that people generally refused to accept that our issues were even real. I was routinely called 'lazy', 'unmotivated' and worse, all due to depression and anxiety.

How were we supposed to survive? I don't know, but we did.

crosinski

(656 posts)
6. Yes, my problems were routinely dismissed too.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 02:16 PM
Jun 2025

When I was young, my family thought I could just get over my problems with will power. But, no, I couldn’t just snap out of a depression, or suddenly become outgoing. It took me quite a long time to truly accept that myself.

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