Our Outlook on Life!

[Kelton Smith]

We all have issues on this forum and we are very supportive of each other which I appreciate. I would like to know what your outlook on life is for your own future. What do you expect to accomplish with your life? Where do you want to be in ten years? Are you working towards that goal?

[Kelton Smith]

I guess it would only be proper to make the first reply on my own discussion right? I was given this BP challenge this past year so I think I'm still in the infant stages. I'm still learning where the behaviors fall within the realm of the illness. I'm educating myself in respect to the various treatments and medications. My goals have changed since I have been diagnosed with BP2 and I'm still working on that area. I would like to accomplish overcoming the challenges and to be best person I can be even with BP. In ten years I hope to smarter! I hope to have an intimate knowledge of how my body reacts to things and be prepared to make the most of controlling it. I do see that I will need to make some life style changes that will enhance my life and my health. I believe I am working towards that goal through education.

[My idol]

My outlook on life has gotten a lot rosier since my dui in September. It really shook me up and made me face my addiction to prescription drugs and my lack of control of my Bp. Since I was diagnosed 15 years ago, I've counted on my meds to take care of me. I rarely thought in terms of being accountable for my own illness. I now realize how foolish I was. So now I don't take it for granted when I feel good, or when my mind starts racing and I can't sleep, or when I just want to stay in bed, On this forum I've learned that they're all indicators. Also, I've learned here how to identify my triggers. I actually found this forum after my dui when I was looking around for help. I found help in abundance. In 10 years I hope to have learned more about my body and this disease. Also I plan on having my Parkinsonism under more control than it is now, I'm working on my goals just 1 day at a time.

[Kelton Smith]

Got that tee shirt yet?

[Bob's My Uncle]

All that information is classified. I am a government experiment.

[My idol]

Ha!! You're funny!

[Kelton Smith]

So true! You are an exceptional experience...or is it experiment!

[withavengeance]

Yeah, Bob, if you told us, you'd have to kill us, right? LOLOL!

[NG]

This is a good question. I've had BP for 12 years so one of my goals is learning more about it and managing it the best way I can and avoiding triggers that can send me in one direction or the other, basically staying stable. I'd like to be able to drive on my own again out of town. I go out of town with other people but not by myself. It's a long story but my first episode, I spent driving all night in pouring rain not remembering anything. Didn't know my name, nothing. Was really out there. Strangers found me on the side on the road sobbing, fortunetly they were nice. It was a horrifing experience and when I read about people on here driving in what seems like not stable states it's concerning.
Anyway, my episodes have been epic...haven't had many but they've been quite the rides! As I'm sure a lot of people's have.
I have a lot of goals for myself and family. Would like to get my daughter off to college. I would like to do something where I'm helping people and yes like I read on another post...I'd like some peace. I'm getting there. I have no idea where I'll be ten years but I do know what I want...it's getting focused and over my fears to get there.

[Kelton Smith]

Thank you NG for your post. Keeping ourselves stable, having peace in our lives and just getting through the day is a good thing. I think you have some nice goals set out for yourself and I hope you accomplish those goals. I like how you want to reach out to others and help them. I believe they are attainable and you seem to have the mindset to reach them. Thank you for sharing.

[David]

I've had a real battle since being diagnosed a few years ago as I have not had the family support or local support that was needed to gain a semblence of a grip on this thing. But I am in a good place now where I am stable and as someone else has mentioned, a DUI (a year ago) is what has got me to this point. I wrote out my story this past year and have shared it with many, but my goal is to get it published and to become a speaker in the coming years. I want to help others to get to a stability also and I want others to know that there are many of us who understand their pain.

[Kelton Smith]

You can do it.