Daily Routine for Bipolar Disorder #shorts
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I’ve been having an average of 3-4 hours sleep for the past 6 years from health issues. Bet my brain can’t wait to rip
Thank God we have you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is me 💯. Thankyou for this I will start tracking
Absolutely! I keep an hourly schedule which has helped me track sleep, improve my focusing abilities (which means less time dwelling on depressing topics too), learn new skills (improving self-esteem), and makes me just value my precious time more when I am seeing where it's all going each hour. It's raised my productivity quite a bit too. Thanks for this:)
I’ll have periods where I’ll only sleep two hours. Get up, have a smoke, then sleep for two more hours. Then off to work!
My wife gets nervous on those days, now. Only know about my condition for about two years. Then I get weird when I’m not manic. Ugh.
… The second I realized my meds had been working for a full year, I started getting messy with my sleep routine (classic story). Being awake at 3am is such a guilty pleasure. I guess it's just about creating a new routine now.
I can’t sleep nights so I’m staying up then. I’m getting my sleep though in the daytime!
This is super important video,a change in routine isn't cool for anyone especially someone living with BP.
Thanks Doc
The one person who disliked it bipolar
Can you do a video on how a partner can help when a routine gets permanently changed due to a tramatic event please? It's triggered a huge episode and this is unlike any episode I have ever seen in the last 15 years of being together.
This is so true! And for my bipolar husband a good night’s sleep resets his brain so we don’t go from that hypomania stage to manic episode! Sleep is my go to other than antipsychotics when taking care of my man. Ha.
I have that issue especially lately but also I am on a crappy shift I also believe my job is part of it also.
As a person who has both Autism and OCD I can confirm that, routines are a big part of my life and plan it almost with a 5 min accuracy from day to day 24/7. I also have trouble with eating and some form of tics / seizures, so routines help me cope with it all. But I think that I am more on an extreme case here tho.
This is very true. It's why I try to keep a sleep schedule and routine. I fall into depressive episodes when there is no routine in my life.
What's fun is when something messes up your routines. I've been sick the last few days. And I pretty much slept for the last 2 days. And now it's past 3am and I'm awake because of all that sleep. And of course, I'm still feeling sick.
I was diagnosed bipolar 1 from one manic episode w/psychosis. The thing I can't wrap my head around is the not needing sleep. Even when I was manic I still needed my 7 – 9+ hours of sleep. I could never function on 3 hours. I don't feel like I'm really bipolar. I had psychosis after using edibles.
2 hr everyday of my life first 36 yrs…..
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These episodes give my life struggle and satisfaction. Managing these things is hard but worth making a meaningful life.
Adult humans only need 5-7 hours.
Has anyone else found that this need to maintain a routine has kept them from kicking an addiction?
Very difficult when you have bipolar2 and no support. I died a long time ago💔 ⚰️
What is this "sleep" you speak of?
Omg I went off my routine and gained 20 pounds😢
5 hours of sleep and a truck driver is not my friend
I love your videos, you are my doctor…I need help
It's interesting when I'm severly in depression and then deprive extremly sleep for days…I come out of depression and become hyper and manic.
This is so true… My schedule is very important to me… And everyone around me
So what’s weird for me is I am bipolar and I need routine to not be totally useless but also I love spontaneity and crave it, yet if I do spontaneous things it’s throws my routine off and sends me into a bout of depression…
I was late diagnosed with Bipolar and ADHD if my routine gets disrupted it’s like my walls are caving in. But I’ve been to therapy and learned that when that happens I just have to be alone for a bit reconnect and refocus. If I’m washing dishes or hyperfocused and I’m interrupted it’s my biggest peeve and if I don’t take my medicines and my routine is disrupted with work or I’m overthinking it causes me to lose all sense of focus and only concentrate on that specific event until the end of my shift. My wife is a godsend and is a wonderful help in understanding how to calm me down and make sure she understands why it’s happening
This is one of the resons i actually first thought i had autism when i was younger, as well as having "special interests" (that, now i know, only lasted through my hypomanic episodes 😅). More info about bd should be spread to avoid such diagnosis
This is total bullshit, you guys keep calling OCD “Bipolar” to trap everyone on antipsychotics. Big pharma doesn’t want everyone’s pineal glands functioning.
I am divorcing my wife of 28 years. I have just experienced the 7th episode. She just got of jail(domestic violence) and I petitioned her to CBI of Mesa. Az for DTS and DTO. I informed all parties involved that my kids and I do not want her to come back home. She refused meds, treatment, etc. I am taking my life back.
sleep well an you will feel better.
Don't make faces on the cover of these videos.
They must've done these studies on prototypical families lol 😅
True
Is anyone else super terrified of developing a routine because you know if it becomes your norm and comfort the minute you can’t do it you will hurt like hell and feel even worse?
6 hours? i wish i can sleep that long but i have to work 16-20 a day just feed my self one meal to feed my kids 3 after there mom left an pay 65% of my check before tax even before i had to work 14-20 hours a day to keep her some what happy when hours got cut it got really bad and after my stroke she left so at this moment i don't now if it was as she tells the court I'm crazy or i was body was week thats what ive been dealing with.
It’s so stupid how my doctor is obsessed with bipolar I mean every book on her shelf is about bipolar and I almost feel like if you come in by her thing is to diagnose you with bipolar and the thing is the one that prescribe antipsychotics to everyone, even people have never been psychotic even people who are fine except when they’re taking meds in made trigger them into anxiety And she pretty much pays no attention to the other things like if you’re if you have ADHD or autism, especially but I don’t know what I’m trying to say. The sleep thing can be bipolar if you never have any problems, but you never have problem sleeping in short hours. You may have problems going to sleep and broken sleepbut you end up sleeping like 10 to 12 hours a day that can’t be bipolar, right
I can not sleep more that 4 hrs unless I get drunk or what not. It’s awful. I’m in my low rn and it’s awful and dark and scary tbh. I don’t really have a doctor and last time I was in the hospital for a while I didn’t let them help me.
i have bipolar disorder. i’m soo bad at routines. This might motivate me to start one for myself.