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This seems to have dwindled, so I'll attempt to kick start it.
Three statements that together hint that someone should have clocked my bipolar disorder much sooner, but which is the lie?
In age order:
1. When I was 11 and told to write an autobiography at school, I structured it with two narrators, an angel and devil, who would each tell the highs and lows of my life thus far.
2. From age 16, every four years or so I have cut my hair extremely short, pixie crop with razored sides and backs, and then grown it out to waist length. I donate the cut off plaits to The Little Princess Trust which makes wigs for children with alopecia or cancer. This started because my first boyfriend told me he "liked my long hair".
3. In my late teens / early twenties, I ran up thousands of pounds of debt on store cards and credit cards with no means of paying it off. My parents eventually found out, cleared the debts and set up a slow repayment plan.
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Originally posted by Sporting View PostWait a few hours more...there are folk who are working.
I think 3 is the lie. I will be very disappointed if 1 is not true, and may think less of you as a result.
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Originally posted by tee rex View Post1 is the lie. I don't know if you've talked about the other two on here, though there's a faint flicker of a light bulb.
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3 is the lie. Well done WOM pebblethefish and elguapo4
I think that makes it WOM's turn next.
Despite reckless spending being a very well known side effect of bipolar disorder (usually during hypomania or mania) I am generally extremely financially prudent, and three was instead something my sister did (and mostly before she was even old enough to legally qualify for the cards. It was the nineties). I don't think she ever completed the repayment plan either, as she had her first child at 20 and I think my parents wrote the debt off then.
The only real financial downside I've experienced from bipolar disorder (apart from the years when I was too out of it to work) is that I found pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding so overwhelming that both times I failed to apply for the maternity payments that I was eligible for. Or, with the first, I did manage to apply, but didn't have the right paperwork (I needed a specific proof of pregnancy form from my GP, my daughter's birth certificate wasn't considered sufficient evidence that I had been pregnant) and didn't have the mental energy to appeal until years later when it was too late. With my first pregnancy, I had also left a long-term, full-time job with generous maternity benefits only four months before I became pregnant, but I don't regret that as it was such a high stress team that one of my colleagues worked almost non-stop through five successive miscarriages and another one ruptured her (pregnant) uterus while running to a client meeting. If I hadn't left that job I might not have been relaxed enough to get pregnant at all.
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Originally posted by jdsx View PostDo you have the autobiography still Balders? I'd quite like to see an example of early-Balderdasha writing style; and it sounds intriguing...
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Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Post
i'd like to see some shots of the psychedelic frozen in time old bedroom come to that..Last edited by Balderdasha; 16-06-2021, 20:05.
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