Is there any way to overcome bipolar disorder without therapy? ?

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I just needed help that if I can overcome bipolar disorder without therapy? Lately these past few months, it's been really difficult since I've been having outbursts and panic attacks so frequently. At first my mania would last a few days and then I would have the comedown but usually I would recover from it.

But for the past few months my mood keeps switching so fast within the time span of a few hours. I get really ticked off at the smallest things and then things just escalate from there.

I've had episodes recently where I harmed myself with glass and a knife. Things are getting worse and unfortunately I'm not financially stable since I recently lost my job. I don't feel stable enough to work again but therapy costs so much.

Please if there's any way I can atleast overcome my outbursts, it would help me alot. Thank you.

RWPossum · Accepted Answer

Says one of us, "EVERY single person on the planet meets the qualifications for bipolar." That is, EVERYONE has frequent panic attacks and harm themselves with glass and a knife.

My question is, if there's a chance that therapy could help with your problem, a life-threatening problem that's giving you misery, why not give it a try? The recommended things are medication, therapy, and stress management. How important therapy is in that I can't say but why overlook anything that might help?

If there's a money problem, see if you might get therapy low cost or free. You might find something good if you called your local social services (211?) or googled "affordable psychotherapy." The cost of therapy can vary a lot.

https://www.healthinsurance.org/obamacare/how-obamacare-improved-mental-health-coverage/

https://careforyourmind.org/what-to-do-when-you-cant-afford-therapy/

Stress management -

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20210102235141AAdqYq1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqEM_jlDRZI

jannsody · Answer

It's typically recommended that in addition to medication from a board-certified psychiatrist (M.D. or D.O.) or even a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (NP) that someone with bipolar depression should seek therapy for psychological support too.

Either a licensed *clinical psychologist* (PhD or PsyD) or a *licensed-clinical social worker* (LCSW) may provide an "official" mental health diagnosis and/or may administer cognitive-behavioral therapy (cbt), for instance, which deals with how one's thoughts may affect one's behavior.

I'm not sure if you've tried a "partial hospital" (day treatment) outpatient program, but it's a more intense therapy program that includes group therapy.  Most "partial hospital" outpatient programs take place from Monday - Friday, 9a-3p, though hours depending upon the person's health insurance and/or the facility.  Transportation may be provided to and from the center for those in the "partial hospital" program.

Someone in a "partial hospital" program may learn some coping strategies, education about one's mental illness, stress management techniques, and/or ways to help lessen relapse prevention.  A board-certified psychiatrist should be on-staff as well.  (Certain programs may include one-to-one therapy, family therapy, and/or creative arts therapy.)

A lesser intensive therapy program may be referred to as an "intensive outpatient program" (IOP), though some therapy facilities prefer that one starts with the "partial hospital" program.

This website should have some local counseling agencies, which may include an on-site psychiatrist too:

https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov

Their toll-free 24/7 ** referral ** hotline:

1-800-662-HELP (4357).

This other website has more general info re: (regarding) self-harm recovery (though, *not* for self-diagnosis or self-treatment):

https://www.helpguide.org/articles/anxiety/cutting-and-self-harm.htm

NAMI (national alliance on mental illness) is a non-profit organization that has more general info and resources for those with mental health conditions *and/or* their family members or caregivers (though, also for informational purposes):

https://www.nami.org/Support-Education

The Anxiety and Depression Association of America has more general info re: those with anxiety and/or depression:

https://adaa.org

? · Answer

Well the house needs a cleanin
and the sink is a leakin
the leaves need a rakin
and the bed needs makin
the grass needs a cuttin
and I'm missin a button
things need a dustin
and now I'm a cussin
Later on I'll be down and sad
happy just seems like a fad
and now I'm just sad and mad
I get in my little boat
and leave just a little note
Gone Fishin
Peace, mkay?

David · Answer

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/314435

Nemo S · Answer

Even diet is a therapy and that is a very good place to start along with clean water to drink supplemented with little to no sugar juices and don't expect an overnight or instant cure as there is no magic bullets because there is none BUT you can make your life and those around you better and easier to deal with and I'm sure they will appreciate it BUT the first 90 days is just the beginning...

and you are worth it but it's your life and you have to see that part for yourself and it's a road that none but you can walk...

N.Shadows

and you are worth it but it's your life and you have to see that part for yourself and it's a road that none but you can walk...

N.Shadows

? · Answer

I have found that getting a job seems to cure most things.

The whole "bipolar" scam is just an excuse for people who don't want to work to get paid to lay on the couch.

EVERY single person on the planet meets the qualifications for "bipolar"

Tolstoyevsky · Answer

Ask the people who had heart attacks but didn’t see a doctor.

Is there any way to overcome bipolar disorder without therapy? ?

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