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I take quite a few medications, both for physical disorders, so to speak (high blood pressure, hypothyroid) and those for my bipolar. I also have the benefit of knowing which supplements I need in order to optimize my health (multivitamin, calcium plus D and minerals, B12).
The history of my father's family reflects multiple family members who suffered bipolar illness, depression, schizophrenia, and other mental illnesses in the days when they did not have medications for those illnesses. There were numberous suicides. My father's mother went to bed for weeks at a time. She was institutionalized several times.
I am grateful for my medications. If it were not for them, I would be exactly in the same position as they were.
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 Vickie
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