Lacking direction

[anonymous175]

I have felt myself slipping for sometime now. Unfortunately this is part of the course of suffering from Bipolar. A few things have triggered this slip: relationship troubles with family members and friends, a sense of loss & being alone and lacking direction in my life. Today I feel really sad and can't seem to get out of bed even to do my beloved daily walk. I just want some respite from toxic relationships, negative feelings and some direction. Any constructive advice would be welcome.

[anonymous175]

Hi Paul. Thank you for posting. I am finding reading replies helpful. However, I feel like I am exposing myself. I haven't publicly spoken about my struggles before. Also I am a terrible speller even with Spellcheck on. I just wanted to ask: what/how did you go about dealing with toxic people in your life? How did you go about cutting your father off? Also, do you know how I can go about changing my display name? There doesn't seem to be an option to do so? Plus, can you use first names in these forums? Thank you, Contradiction.

[CMF]

Hi there,

Welcome and well done for posting. Yeah, I lack direction to. I feel as though I 'exist' but don't 'live'. I'm just going through the motions.

I don't have much to add to the other replies you've had but to change your profile name I think you can go into 'my profile' in the top right hand corner of the page and change it there. Yes you can use first names.

I hope you have a better day today. Sorry I can't add much more bit everything I would suggest has been covered.

cmf

[blondguy]

Hi Contradiction

Apologies in getting back to you late..normally I am pretty quick...

I joined Beyond Blue in January this year and was scared to post...big time. I also felt like I was exposing my heart and soul...I am glad I did though because the forums are rock solid secure...to ensure our privacy

Your spelling is fine and not really important as we are only here to offer support not to judge in any way....If it wasnt for new people posting there would be no forums.

Toxic people took me a long time to figure out....even though I love my dad.....he was stripping my confidence away for so long I just stopped talking him after me trying to stand up for myself so many times...

I felt so good after cutting ties with him....(yes, felt guilty at first) it was like I was free of all the never ending negatives he always threw at me. I felt great.

• Profile name change..email ChrisB the forums manager and he will happily do that manually for you...we can change our profile pic online but not our screen name (sorry cmf)

I really hope you are still around Contradiction and sorry for the delay again..

If you are still stuck on changing your screen name please post back and will help you out as much as I can

It would be great if you could post back

my kind thoughts for you

Paul

[CMF]

Hey,

just st checking in to see how you are going?

Paul, thx for clearing up the name change info. Much appreciated.

cmf