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Originally Posted by DrSkipper
If you have never seen A Beautiful Mind, it's a true story about a college professor who is diagnosed with schizophrenia and he ends up being able to control his hallucinations without the aid of medications. I want to be like that. I feel like since I only had one episode, and that I know that my hallucinations aren't real and that I am someone who is very aware of my feelings and know what is normal and what isn't, that I can be like A Beautiful Mind and be able to control my symptoms without the aid of meds.
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DrSkipper, let me give you a gentle reality check: the film is a highly distorted story of John Nash, still alive, the genius inventor of Game Theory (he was more than a college professor, he was a Nobel Prize co-winner). He wrecked his family life not just for himself but others involved. Indeed he was able to keep his career, but there is more to life than that. Hardly a role model.
It seems that your dosages are so small, you are doing so well, you should be happy with the status quo. The topic of whether an AD-induced mania can be independent of the Bipolar disorder, ie occur in its absence, is controversial. Maybe the right course of action for you would be to be off drugs while seeing the p-doc regularly so that he or she give you a correct diagnosis and then you both will take it from there. Do remember that the Bipolar disorder is far easier to treat early in life. I wish I were dx-d many years ago! "far easier" = 1) fewer meds, lower dosages 2) higher effectiveness of treatment.
So it seems that you want, with a doctor's approval, go off the meds, see what happens, if there is a repeat of mania, go back to the meds ASAP, if there is no repeat, pray that it was purely Zoloft-induced.
At any rate, best!