I have known Im Bi-Polar for about 5 years now. When i was PG with my son i started to feel really down and hated the world. The doctors told me it depression and gave me pills. It worked for awhile. After having him things didnt seem to get any better. After seeing many doctors and everyone telling me it was the baby blues, I found a doctor that asked me about my past. After a long talk, she said the word I didnt want to hear. "I think your bipolar!"
Its been a VERY long road. With many lows and a few highs.
I have always been over weight. And had to deal with that all my life. But it came harder after them putting me on meds. I gained alot of weigh and couldnt get it off. My mom had bypass about 10 years ago and it seem to work for her. I have been thinking about it for years and toke the jump about 6 months ago.
About 4 months ago we got me out of a very low. It toke almost a year. I felt normal for sometime. something i havent felt for a very long time. But now i have gone manic again. Thats what state im in now. Some think its the stress of having to loss the weight preop..some think its me coming off birth control.... and yet think its cause i have lost some weight and now the meds need fixed.  We have chagned my meds and see if that works. As you can see from what i have writed Im all over the place.
It would be nice to have people to talk to that are dealing with the same things. Who have bipolar and doing WLS.

 Obesity is one of those problems where the symptom is apparent (the obesity) but the underlying causes aren't understood or hidden.  Most people who have never had a problem with their weight or those that only have a minor problem believe whole heartedly that calories in minus calories out equals weightloss.  I wi**** were that simple.  We would have no obese people.  There is often something pathological or physical that cause a person to alter the intake of calories.  In my case it's Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome.  My doctors at the Veterans Administration (VA) kept hassleing me about being "a woman of your size..."  and then I went to a civilian doctor and they imediately said "your thirty, you have acne, and you are obese, you are most likely suffering from PCOS".  Wow! Vindication!  There is a reason I experience gnawing hunger all the time!  My cells are starving because they are insulin resistant.  PCOS is only one of the many causes for obesity that go beyond calories in/calories out.  I swear!

 How increadibly stupid for someone to even think for a moment that obesity is a simple problem!  It is like saying they can solve the problems in the middle east really simply: everyone just stop fighting.  Problems are more complicated than people who don't suffer from them tend to think of them.  

The key is finding the underlying reasons.  In my case it's PCOS and depression that may be partially caused by PCOS.  Some other people may be victims of abuse, neglect, sexual trauma, or difficult pasts.  All of these problems are perfectly valid reasons to being overweight!  Don't be hard on yourself or blame yourself like the rest of the cruel world seems to already do before they even know you.  LOVE YOURSELF and find out what you are going to do for your health.  Wether that is excersizing more, eating less, or having weightloss surgery, the answer is only up to you to decide.  Ultimately, you are the one in responsible for your health.  If you are not sure what to do, prayer has always helped me.  

I have just started the WLS journey about a month ago.  I just can't seem to get motivated enough to continue with what I have to do to get the surgery.  I don't feel like doing anything -- household chores, going to work -- I only want to either sleep, eat, or be on the computer.  I'm sad and anxious a lot of the time.  I've been on antidepressants with some success; however, their effectiveness is limited and when I'm on them, my brain is in a fog.  Not too long ago I weaned myself (with the help of my NP) off of Abilify & Wellbutrin and I'm now only taking Lamictal.  (The brain fog was too much.  I temporarily felt better being off of them). Maybe because of the long-standing stress I've been under the past few years, that's what was causing the depression.  Maybe I just can't cope with the stress that life brings in general.   I'm afraid of trying other antidepressants because of the brain fog.  I'm just not in a good place.

 I was on Zonegren for mood stabilization but had an allergic reaction to it because it contains Sulfa , so if you are allergic to sulfa at all don't try it. I take Abilify now and have no side effects.

It sounds like depression.  Do you have a doctor that you can go to about this?  If you don't have a psychiatrist then maybe your GP.  Sometimes a good antidepressant is needed.  I wish you the best.