So I was chatting with my fellow very mentally ill queer coworker friend about mental illness (as we do) and I mentioned how I was realizing that my wildly manic depressive response to grief wasn't... normal...
& they were like 'oh my god Yeah I've been suspecting you're bipolar for a While now' bc apparently I get in... modes... where my pupils are Huge and I'm talking a mile a minute and doing 4 things at once and even my Posture is different
And then I'll come in the next day like all the life's been sucked out of me.
& she mentioned there's type 1 and type 2, 1 being the longterm episodes & 2 being them alternating on a day to day basis. And I'm just like... damng... I sure do seem to have that 2 thing...
Apparently it's not normal to alternate between manic and depressive states! Who knew!
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CW: mental health, anxiety, obsessive & spiraling thoughts
TL;dr: I had an intense, prolonged anxiety attack today, and I should rlly expedite finding a new therapist 🫠
Amongst today's flurry of activities included a 3hr-long anxiety attack where I panic-cleaned my entire kitchen bc I was so overwhelmed by the state it was in and the mere idea of all the grime/bacteria/mold was sending me into a spiral so I deep-cleaned every single part of it for hours while also feeling like I couldn't breathe/think/exist.
It felt like drowning, fueled purely by manic adrenaline and feeling like I was running a marathon and something was chasing me and I had to keep cleaning and cleaning and cleaning or else. Like if I stopped, I would just, drop dead.
But then I finished the kitchen but every single area of my apartment was a disorganized, gross pile of crap thats slowly been building up so I still couldn't breathe/think/exist, so I began cleaning up everything else too.
The panic adrenaline ended up fizzing out after 3-4hrs, but I did get 70% of my apartment cleaned up. It feels just the tiniest bit easier to breathe. But I'm still so, so overwhelmed. I'm on sensory overload. It's too hot-too cold, there's too much crap and there's not enough space, and I clean and clean but everything just gets dirty again and it makes me feel like I'm living in a filthy place even though logically I know it's not that bad.
I look at my tub and think, "didn't I just clean that?" and realise that was 2 weeks ago and of course it's gonna get gross again. I think "didn't I change my sheets not long ago?" but realise it's been a month. I keep doing my laundry, I keep putting it away, and by the time I finally finish putting it away there's a full load I need to do again. Rinse and repeat.
I showered, I'm clean right? Nope that was 2-3 days ago, I need to shower again, I'm gross, but the tub, it's dirty, but didn't I just clean it? Oh, that's right, that was 2 weeks ago. But now showering is (more) of a struggle, bc it feels revolting to step in bc all I can think of is how dirty it is (to me). Obv I should clean it, but there's a million other things I need to clean in my apartment that's higher on the priority than my tub. But I need to shower, I need to stay clean. But I need to clean my tub. But I don't have clean clothes I need to do the laundry, and also if I'm doing laundry I need to clean my sheets it's been too long, but then that's 2 loads of laundry and that'll take 2 days to finish bc we hang-dry our laundry and so the 1st load needs to dry before starting a 2nd load. But if I'm cleaning my sheets, then I need to shower, bc I don't want to dirty my fresh sheets that I just changed out. So I should shower first. Oh, but the tub is dirty-
Anyways, the spiraling thoughts are so, so hard to control these days. Esp considering I had 2 medical emergencies within 2 weeks of each other which has completely fucked me over and has contributed to my current mental state.
I really need a therapist 💀
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