One attribute that is often overlooked with bipolar disorder is impulsive or compulsive spending. It’s one of the qualities that most people notice of me, but don’t really put much thought into. I was diagnosed with bipolar at 18 years old. I had been previously diagnosed with severe clinical depression at 14 and started showing…
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Impulsive Buys I Don’t Regret
I regret a lot of the purchases and spending that I have done being bipolar. It has become a long, slippery slope these past four years since my diagnosis. I have bought three vehicles, each more expensive and debt producing than the last, I have bought needless jewelry, spent tens of thousands of dollars on…
Obsession
I never thought of myself as having an obsessive personality and hey, maybe I actually don’t… but bipolar disorder has a mind of it’s own and in it’s own right, bipolar is obsessive. Bipolar lives, breathes, and feeds off of obsession. The subject matter changes from moment to moment, but when you see someone ruminating,…
Precarious Aquarius 