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Old Jul 23, 2012, 10:55 PM
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Originally Posted by PiperLeigh View Post
I'm right there with you in the process of titering up...start 50 mg tomorrow. Had one really bad day of very intense suicidal thoughts, but then back to okay. .
Hope this doesn't trigger anyone, that's why I put the little icon up.

The same thing happened to me, the 4th day I was on Lamictal. As depressed and f'ed up as I was, I wasn't ordinarily suicidal; but one night my youngest son and I had this enormous fight and he decided to shut the phone off and ignore me. In my highly-charged state, I thought he was totally turning his back on me and I just lost it. My poor husband held me and let me cry and rage, which was a good thing because I had a bottle of Ativan that I was about to eat, just because my heart was broken and life wasn't worth living if my son shut me out of his.

It was so bad that I even texted my other kids and told them I was thinking about doing it. What a s****y thing to do to your adult children.....Even as I was texting them I realized that I really didn't want to die, I only wanted the pain to stop. I don't know if they'll ever understand that. But it's never been that bad again.
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