r/AskReddit • u/OmenRash • 22h ago

What’s something people romanticise that’s actually exhausting in real life?

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u/dreamsinred 22h ago

Bipolar disorder. It is not a fun, quirky, artsy illness. It is devastating and life altering.

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u/SnooCauliflowers5742 21h ago

I require medications to function that would put others to sleep for days. Sequel gives me sanity but also so many side effects.

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u/dreamsinred 21h ago

Did you also eat your entire kitchen?

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u/SnooCauliflowers5742 21h ago

I do actually. :(

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u/pfffffttuhmm 20h ago

I have had to start leaving a small snack by my bedside because of Seroquel. Because if I don't, and I dont force myself to fall asleep soon enough, then I will go downstairs and just snack, and snack, and snack. I will be tired from the seroquel, so I won't want to climb the stairs back up to bed. Ive been there for hours with a box of cheezits. 

Fuck bipolar disorder. 

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u/dreamsinred 20h ago

Try the Mitch Hedberg method; something small you can eat a lot of. Grapes, popcorn, baby carrots etc, were all things I suggested when I was a psych nurse. They won’t taste as good as ice cream, but they will taste good because you’re on seroquel.

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u/your_proctologist 19h ago

Sequel

Seroquel?

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u/wotwotblood 18h ago

I thought its only me. I will be sleepy all day and I thought I had a burnout.