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Originally Posted by Merlin
My name is Laura and I live in western Canada. I have type II bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder. I am currently stable due to effective medication and am devoting the efforts I used towards getting well towards helping others get well too. I am a community rehabilitation worker and am taking a bachelors in social work focusing on mental illness.
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Hi Laura,
You have the same diagnoses as me...can I ask how you got to the enviable 'stable' stage?
I've just spent time in hospital because I was frightened to sleep due to the nightmares and ended up clinically sleep deprived. And it has triggered a major mood crash. I'm out of hospital but struggling. They've changed my meds about..am still on Quetiapine & Lamotrigine for the bipolar but instead of the Duloxetine I was taking for the depression they've put me on Mirtazapine because apparently it will help with the PTSD symptoms? The main problem I've got is that the increased dose of Quetiapine along with the Mirtazapine and Temazepam I'm permanently feeling 'drugged'. I want to be able to function during the day but the Consultant is drilling into me that sleeping is the most important thing because it will give me the strength to cope with everything else.
So all in all I'm wobbling and don't know what is the best thing to do!