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retrowire

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2. back when I didnt know I had bipolar disorder

Reply to irisblue (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 6, 2016, 01:24 PM

Oct 2016

I would have rare grand hallucinations about how the world was opening up and I was being taken to my death. I'd feel immense senses of dread.

Nowadays, I'm medicated. But I just went 3 days without meds and well, symptoms started arising.

I got my meds back again though so... I'm leveling out. I'm having a good day today I think.

And I haven't talked to my doctor since he first prescribed me the meds half a year ago.

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hallucinations are a symptom of bipolar disorder yeah? [View all] retrowire Oct 2016 OP

has this happened before? irisblue Oct 2016 #1

back when I didnt know I had bipolar disorder retrowire Oct 2016 #2

check your PM irisblue Oct 2016 #5

wow thanks! retrowire Oct 2016 #8

They can be, but not everyone with the illness has them. Tobin S. Oct 2016 #3

ah great. lol retrowire Oct 2016 #4

I have a bipolar disorder and I suffered from hallucinations. Tobin S. Oct 2016 #6

heres the interesting thing retrowire Oct 2016 #7

Text-book dissociation. FigTree Oct 2016 #10

The fact that you recognized them as external FigTree Oct 2016 #9

That's the way I saw it before an anti-psychotic hit my brain. Tobin S. Oct 2016 #11

So you mean that after you started taking medications FigTree Oct 2016 #12

Yes, it was the realization that they were from within. Tobin S. Oct 2016 #13