Everyone has a level of Bi-Polar disorder. Everyone has good days and bad days. Good weeks and bad weeks. Good years and bad years. It's a human thing. Dealing with it before it is allowed to get out of hand is where the problems arise.
It is easy to go down into hell day and night the doors of dark death stand open wide.
To climb back up, to retrace one steps to the top...
There lies the problem, the difficult task "Virgil"
The mind is a terrible thing to waste my friend. Yes people go through life travelling certain paths, yes some folks never alter their path and just keep on keepin on the same path forever. And I believe this is what you are reffering to?
Drivers licenses are limited to a certain number of years. PA. is 4 years, I think the CS drivers license will be valid for a period of 1 year so I get to take everyones picture often.
Now we need law enforcement to make certain CSers abide by the laws set forth
DangerouslySweet mentioned support groups. I ran and facilitated a brain injury support group in my area for four years. The website I see is still live. Google HTS head trauma support
I also spoke on behalf of brain injury survivors and caregivers at the first annual BIAPA "Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania" in Pittsburgh PA. (Couldn't tell you what year that was)
Can't remember being there, but I know I was there. And THAT is what I have to deal with on a daily basis. Memory loss on an unimaginable scale. I have very little of my past that I can look back on and so I also use association on a daily basis.
I am a survivor of two traumatic brain injuries. The worst being the second injury where I was life-flighted to a trauma unit, spent 12 days in a coma, 30 days in the trauma unit, 60 days after that in a rehabilitation hospital, and the rest of my life to deal with the effects of one split second at the end of a fun motorcycle ride.
Bi-Polar "Manic Depression" is a chemical imbalance. My injuries were a total and complete collapse of the neuronal network due to impact of the Right Frontal Lobe (Both injuries).
I have spent the last 22 years rehabilitating myself. Living as this new person that I have become. Dealing with the mood swings, the frustrations, the loss of friends, the loss of memories from my past, the good days, the bad days, and every day in between.
A system has been developed in my mind as to how I deal with things. This system of course would only work for me beings that there is only one of me.
However I have found that the very best way of dealing with anything, and everything is through positive thinking. Understanding that there are going to be good days, bad days, and days in between helps me get through the days no matter what the day turns out to be.
"Norms" (Whatever that is) don't understand, Can't understand, and possibly never will understand and it's not my place to force them too. So I thank you for starting this thread because it shows that people do care.
Now you know you're next step. Print those emails out. Both to and from you as proof that you can show your attorney. Don't leave any of them out for her to use against you.
You are walking a different path today than you were walking when you posted the first time Michael.
I sported long hair all my life up till New Years Eve 2003 when it was buzz cut to 3/8. I have kept it short since then but I have decided to let it grow out again now.
However I am finding that since I have been keeping it short that it doesn't seem to want to co-operate and grow long again as quickly as it used too. I have been told that since I got it cut so short it will take longer now?
While I don't hunt for my own reasons I don't see a problem with hunters controlling the deer population. What I do have a problem with is the governments way of dealing with the deer overpopulation.
Google Pennsylvania Mountain Lion if you want to know more
Refusing to pay child support burns me up. For any and all reasons. Dammit it's not the childs fault and not paying is making it the childs problem. A problem which will be carried with that child forever, known or unknown to the child they will use the lessons learned from it in their own lives and in their own relationships.
When I facilitated the Brain Injury Support group HTS (Head Trauma Support) and spoke at the first annual BIAPA (Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania) I was among folks far worse than myself and each one of them also refused to stay down in their own ways.
We all have our own fights. There are none worse than any other. Everyone has a story, Everyone has obstacles.
The TIA Mini-stroke 4 days before christmas last year gave me even more determination. Now this year I have gone for the first helicoptor ride since the life-flight and have been to Las Vegas twice! so the fight goes on.
Thanks guys. Today is just one of those reality thinking kinda days. It's all good. Driving home half blinded from the drops made me realize that what I saw may not be seen again. And that life really is too short to be worried about the small stuff.
Yes Paws the technologies that are available today are amazing.
Gawd I sure love these lessons that life throws in our faces.
Have I seen enough beauty too not see anything more?
NO, I'm not going blind today, tomorrow, not even next week but the optomologist wants me back in a week to test my Periphreal field vision. He says: Don't worry Mike I only see a "Trace" of Glaucoma. Sure am glad of all the new technologies available that will assist in at least slowing the Glaucoma process.
Neuroligost again in a couple weeks to see if anything different can be tried to aleaviate the headaches and the tinitus.
I put this body through hell 20 years ago and now I am paying the price for lessons that could have been learned way back then but weren't.
Thank you Rose, My daughter knows about this book. When she was 10 I got it out of the safe and showed it too her. She read the first couple of pages and then went about doing the 10 year old girl thing. So it went back in the safe and has been there since.
She wasn't ready to read it when she was 10, which is fine because oneday she will be. Maybe I will still be here when she is ready, maybe I won't. But a very large piece of me will always be here for my baby girl and no one else.
It is a crazy system Ron. I spoke with the attorney that "Did his job" while I was in the 7 year battle for benefits a few years ago and it was like I was the bad guy for going back to work? I mean it was like his work was more important than my life. Needless to say I hope I never need him as an attorney again.
Yes he did his job, yes he advised me through the battle that it was because I was working those part time jobs so I could eat and live an independent life that was keeping me from getting into the system, yes he did the paperwork. But this is my life, not his
And now that I am in the system I am allowed to work? WTF
It was like they waited for me to die and then when they figured that I was not going to die they said ok.
And NWstar... HUGS to you for having the strength and courage to do what you have to do on a daily basis also!
Spidermiss, I wish you the best of luck and having gone through the process I can give you this one piece of crucial advice.
Get EVERYTHING documented, and get to the doctor, psycologist, pstciatrist... Whatever it takes because what is documented on paper and from a reliable source is the only thing the system will look at or care to hear.
The decision not to work for me was the hardest thing I've ever done. However the consequences of continuing to work would have been worse.
It's even harder when you have the "Invisible Disability" such as brain damage because people look at me and say no way. Until they get to know and understand me. TBI "Traumatic Brain Injury" is a disability which is hard to understand and even harder to accept.
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RE: We're going to build a colony for CS!!!!
Uniform is optional of course