Bipolar Ptsd Quotes

“Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

“Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more careful about revealing psychiatric symptoms. Unless you know that your doctor understands trauma symptoms, including dissociation, you are wise not to reveal too much. Too many medical professionals, including psychiatrists, believe that hearing voices is a sign of schizophrenia, that mood swings mean bipolar disorder which has to be medicated, and that depression requires electro-convulsive therapy if medication does not relieve it sufficiently. The “medical model” simply does not work for dissociation, and many treatments can do more harm than good... You do not have to tell someone everything just because he is she is a doctor. However, if you have a therapist, even a psychiatrist, who does understand, you need to encourage your parts to be honest with that person. Then you can get appropriate help.”
― Alison Miller, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse

“Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won't be the last thing I taste”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

“There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Stantasyland: Quips, Quotes & Quandaries

“Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I’d be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

“Pain, torture or trauma cause bipolar and PTSD
and once you have it's hard to get free”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

“Describing my sexual history and scope of experience; am surrendering; in conclusion an epic failure

'I'm a master at setting people off...of this it may continue...”
― Robert Wesley Miller