How do you cope with being cyclothymic? How are your personal relationships w/ sign others, children, parents

Question: I am cyclothymic. I am often depressed, to an extreme that only few understand. It's not something one can "snap" out of. It runs its course. When I am medicated I feel like a guinea pig.I know that this med is so necessary to keep me on track. I feel failure because I need help in this way. When depressed, I fail in my classes, my relationship with my loved ones' suffer. I cannot feel deeply (just pain), what is beautiful doesn't quite pierce me. I feel like I am going through the motions and life is monotonous and bland. Lonely. When I am feeling well, I feel great. Although I know it is fleeting. I envy people who just wake up and can cope and deal with everything without their mood, their mind telling them what is impossible. I have all these ideas..that I just cannot make come to fruition..

Answers:
I have been diagnosed with numerous mental disorders, and was prescribed so many different medications.they never helped. The doctors told me I would never get better without the meds, and they were wrong. I started changing the way I thought about things and little by little it worked. It has taken many years and I can't say I am cured, but my life is so much better than it was.a lot of what has helped has been reading. One book I will recommend is the Feeling Good Handbook. I can't guarantee this will help, but I hope it does. I wish you the best of luck.

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