Crawk wrote:Barbarella wrote:Crawk wrote:
same
i used to spend quite a lot which was also during my phases of mania lmaO
luckily i'm good with money now n don't feel the need to buy,,, although i do sometimes treat myself if the sets r rly nice since i mainly just save my money n don't do much with it otherwise
lol my therapist and I are not 100% able to figure out of my spending was mania or me just having money for the first time and getting things I had been putting off.
gotta love a culture that tries to sell you self care but then calls you irresponsible for participating lol
lmao i feel you, the first times i got to handle my own money it was gone within days mnbvf
honestly now looking back i can see where my bipolar started early
lucky i never got to the point of loaning money but man it was close
glad my meds work so well that i'm stable and can be reasonable and responsible with my money, which i'm rly am
yeah it sucks,, but the culture also uses people's mental health to sell stuff that could land u in so much debt
n that happened to my mom, the preyed on her having bipolar n that's how she ended up with a debt of 100k €
she has now a thing (not sure what it's called in english) that will make so after she has been paying a certain amount for 5 years all the debt will be written off, even though she won't have payed it all off
I feel weird any time I spend money on "stuff" cuz I'm just...SUCH a non consumer? Which sounds really arrogant but I don't mean it to. I just don't usually have a desire to buy things I don't need. But lately I've been buying records and DVDs and art, and my therapist is like "I mean this is abnormal for you but I'm not sure it's that bad..."