Asides on so much focus on meds... the "we are helpless and need to be babied" bothers me. I read simmilar article (about how bipolars need to be told to go to bed NOAW and such). I hope my potential future partner never comes across such articles... because I simply couldn't deal with being handled by these rules.
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Without a doubt, the biggest challenge we face in treating bipolar disorder is medical adherence, according to psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison. “I’d like to make the obvious point that I don’t think is made enough, which is that it doesn’t do any good to have effective medications for an illness if people don’t take them,” she said at the Johns Hopkins 21st Annual Mood Disorders Symposium. Approximately 40 – 45 percent of bipolar patients do not take their medications as prescribed. Come up with some rules, and be sure to include in there “medication adherence.”
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Paulina Porizkova had "Love affair" with meds. Her husband liked her better medicated? why? Because she was a good stepfort wife... (apparently, her stepfortwifeness made even for lack of sex). It's often the case it seems... liking 'em better doped up.
This complaince/adherence **** makes me angry, because it often contains power factor. I guess some bipolars are due to past traumas willing/wanting to be man-handled... but that doesn't make it right.
I am not really for given rules in relationships, except for honest and common decency. Openness and will to listen from both parties is what is needed.
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Sometimes I forget how hurtful my words can be when I’m expressing how anxious or depressed I feel. “I just want to be dead.” “I don’t care about anything.” “If only I was diagnosed with cancer and could make a graceful exodus out of this world …” Oh, no offense. Thankfully my husband knows that it’s my depression speaking, not me. He has been able to separate his wife from the illness. That is the result of lots of research on his part and a few conversations with my psychiatrist.
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gah, I hate the whole "your illness talking" thing. Yes, we sound scary when depressed... but what if there's something more to it? I wonder how much conversations her husband had with her. I had many many many many with my "crazy" friends. Never used "illness is talking" line. For them it's real in that moment and it's pointless to lessen it.
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If my husband didn’t take time to run and play golf he would be hospitalized alongside me.
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no offense, but I'd be crazy if I were her husband too. And all the golf in the world would not save me
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