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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
ditto. I have ELFA shelving from Container Store occupying one fourth of my living room, waiting to be measured, priced and posted on Craigslist. The sad thing: when I was manic and buying all that stuff (and I now see that the shelving I bought was way too much even for the large rental house we occupied at that time), I had a psychiatrist. My first p-doc. And once I walked into his office with this huge paper bag from the Container Store (home organization store) that read "Contain yourself". A patient clearly ask the p-doc to contain her. And what happens? He under-diagnosed as BP II and undertreated as a result.
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Back when I was in mixed state (last summer), my first pdoc (who didn't think I was bipolar), actually TOLD ME TO GO SHOPPING to feel better.
That's what set off my extreme couponing and my $10,000 shopping spree that fall/christmas.
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age: 23
dx: bipolar I, ADHD-C, tourette's syndrome, OCD, trichotillomania, GAD, Social Phobia, BPD, RLS
current meds: depakote (divalproex sodium) 1000mg, abilify (aripiprazole) 4mg, cymbalta (duloxetine) 60mg, dexedrine (dexamphetamine) 35mg, ativan (lorazepam) 1mg prn, iron supplements
past meds: ritalin, adderall, risperdal, geodon, paxil, celexa, zoloft
other: individual talk therapy, CBT, group therapy, couple's therapy, hypnosis
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