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Apr 28, 2013, 10:50 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by Darth Bane
normally bipolar is every day-every minute struggle. struggle against negative thoughts. doctors think without meds bipolar patients spend half of their life in depression and unproductive. for me it is 2-3 years out of 8 years so kind of true. i am not taking any meds. when depression hits me i take rest from work for months and try to recover. but honestly it sounds stupid even to me. i wont mind taking lithium at all if they reduced side effects of it on kidneys. and for antipsychotics there is no question of me taking them since i dont have any delusions yet.
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As BipolarNurse said, AP's are very often prescribed for BP, delusions or not. Lamictal has helped a great deal with my depression, not in preventing and getting me out of mania. I, no doubt like many others, would like nothing better than to not have to take them.
If bipolar were just about negative thoughts, some CBT and then voila! I wish it were so easy/simple. I wish I could take months off from work when in a very bad way. I'm glad for you that you've been able to keep things under control as you have.
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