Does bipolar affect your self motivation?

Question

Does bipolar affect your self motivation?

Answer 1

yep it will

Answer 2

Self Motivation: "a need or desire that causes a person to act". A person with bipolar has very little need or desire to do anything. Even if someone tells them about an exciting event (a concert, football game, live theatre) coming to town, the BP person will not react the same way a person without it does. I have bipolar and for the first 5 years after being diagnosed, I did NOT want to get out of bed at all. Even if I did, I stayed on the couch with the blinds closed. It was like being a little mole in the ground. Dark, quiet, gloomy. But it didn't matter. I didn't care. My work suffered terribly near the end of my employment - I took so much time off (when I started it, I was a multi-tasker). I eventually lost that job to downsizing, but if it were any other job, I'm sure I would have been fired. So, yes, the answer is bipolar does affect your self motivation. Some more than others.... sigh.  

Answer 3

very much. manic stages make you feel like u can do anything, and in a split second u feel like u just want to shoot yourself. its really hard to deal with

Answer 4

For motivational help, i found the following blog quite usefull

just check it out.

http://great-motivational-stories.blogsp...

It has Short motivational and inspirational stories

hope you will also like it

good luck

Answer 5

depression = no

apathy = no

mixed state= only to make it stop!

over medicated = no

balanced long enough to think it will stick = yes

slightly hypomanic = hugely

seriously hypo or manic = ha, a minute on this, a minute on that.....

Obviously, my answer is yes.

Answer 6

I don't know but I think it does. My sister used to have bipolar. She used to be really smart, top grades, adn fell in with the wrong company. They influenced her to do drugs, all that and then she slowly got worse then the doctors saw her. They said she had bipolar. Since we found out, and since she acting strange, she going really bad with work, not motivated to do anything, really bad mood swings. But she got better naturally over time.

So, it might affect different people differently, but from my experience, it does.

Hope this helps.

Answer 7

For me, yes. When I'm depressed, I don't want to get out of bed, let alone do anything, and when I'm hypomanic, I can't stick at anything.. I'm motivated to begin with, but it doesn't last.