Bipolar Owl Meme Generator
On Monday you can't face opening the post. By Wednesday you've ordered a sewing machine, a ukulele and a book on beekeeping, all at 2 in the morning. On Friday you can't face opening the parcels.
You leave a friend's message on read for nine days. Then you reply with eleven paragraphs, three voice notes and a plan for the two of you to move to Lisbon next week. She replies "are you ok?" Fair.
The washing up has been there since Sunday. Then, at 3 on Thursday morning, you clean the whole flat, alphabetise the spices and regrout the bath. The washing up is still there. It's personal now.
The doctor asks how your mood has been, on a scale of one to ten. You ask which day. She asks for an average. You explain that the average of one and ten is not, in any real sense, five.
Why it caught on: a barn owl's face that sits exactly between calm and alarm became a page where people with bipolar disorder describe the swings from the inside. Nobody is being mocked: it's people finding out that someone else has had the very same week.
Best Bipolar Owl posts
- "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" / I DON'T KNOW, IT MADE SENSE BACK THEN
- "your illness is an excuse!" / of course it is. i love exposing myself as a psychiatric patient.
- Depression: I can't talk to anyone about anything / Mania: Let me tell grandma all about my sex life
- listen to one song / for three months
- i sabotage my life / to justify depression
- I try TO COUNT SHEEP TO SLEEP / BUT IT GOES ONE SHEEP, TWO SHEEP, COW, DUCK, OLD MACDONALD HAD A FARM HEY MACARENA
- Manic: spend $300 on hair and skin products / depressed: don't shower for 3 weeks
- so many ideas / no idea what they are
- today: depression and apathy / tomorrow: horrible anxiety about all of the stuff you didn't do yesterday
- mania / it's like cocaine, but it's free and legal
- TIred all day / 3am: CLean entire house
- takes drugs whilst very manic / Barely notices a difference.
- "Why are you sad?" / nothing.
- depressed / annoyed by the sun
- MISDIAGNOSED FOR 10 YEARS / "I THOUGHT MANIA WAS JUST ME BEING HAPPY!"
- Hypersexaul urges, must get sexual pleasure / anti depressants stop you from orgasming
- MIXED STATE / MY BIPOLAR DISORDER IS BEING BIPOLAR
- Depressed: no one wants me i am pathetic and ugly / Manic: no one deserves me i am a goddess
- If I don't go clubbing right now / I will die
- pardon me, but i am not talking too fast / you're just listening too goddamn slow