We will adapt.

I am severely bipolar. I use many coping techniques to calm down when I’m struggling but sometimes I just need meds, and that’s okay.

I struggle with severe anxiety and I do the weirdest thing when I start getting anxious. I’m not even sure how to describe it… I do two things. I sigh heavily over and over again, so everyone thinks something is wrong. I have no control over it, and it is very embarrassing… But back to the lips thing. I don’t bite my lip. I don’t suck on it…I Press my lips together and the only way I can think to describe it is as a parent. When our babies are young we imitate the sounds of trucks and cars. That’s what it sounds like when I Press my lips together and blow.

It’s the “airplane!” We try to convince our babies to eat food… that looks disgusting; and we do it in the strangest ways; like the airplane.

So when I start doing the airplane, and sighing heavily like a achey, worn out old woman, I know it’s time to take my anxiety medicine… because I will continue acting like a crazy person until I do.

* I truly do apologize if the word “crazy” was offensive to anyone. I talk about mental health very seriously with everyone and that includes giving the proper respect for those people who struggle. Some people find words used lightly by a “normal bystander” such as maniac, psychopath, psycho, crazy, bipolar, and schizo to be extremely offensive. If I think even a little about it I realize I find all of them offensive in some way. But I take myself way too seriously and me being offended by something so insignificant in the vastness of this life… I need to calm down.