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Originally Posted by genetic
I know my view is different, and I certainly don't want to make you feel as though you're
being pushed to get you to do something you don't want to do, but do you really deep down
believe that you don't need to talk about these things with your psychiatrist?
You could be having some side effects from medications you're taking now and it might
be able to be cleared up by simply changing the meds you are on at this time.
You sound so perfectly normal in thought to me; I can't imagine that a psychiatrist would
consider you in need of strong sedatives to treat a psychosis.
I hope you will see your way clear to find a way to learn if it's being caused by current
meds rather than a very mild psychotic blip.
I just couldn't go with "an old woman's voice telling me that I was worthless". I don't
see how you can tolerate that. Even telling it to shut up is not enough!
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It happened more often prior to going on anything. (Including my blood pressure meds.) It's toned down significantly probably because I don't feel I've gotten depressed as much. And I haven't experienced anything dramatically negative in a week or so. With going to meet the pdoc and T next week I was just trying to work out what I would and wouldn't tell them about. And part of me kind of felt bad for not mentioning it to begin with.
When I'm in that place where I do hear the voices telling me I'm worthless I don't want to tell anyone about it. It's almost an embarrassment. I wouldn't tell anyone if I were suicidal (which is usually when the voices are at their worst) until after the fact. Can't explain it. I tried to tell my parents (my dad specifically) when I was younger and he flat out told me my depression was just me being lazy and I needed to stop being a spoiled ***** and stop crying. So I feel like I'm being selfish. I feel like an embarrassment. And I have no shortage of voices telling me so.
Really though, it's true that they don't bother me the majority of the time. And my pdoc is WAY not a med pusher. Which is one of the only reasons I'm sticking it out with him. He seems to have my general health in mind which I really appreciate.
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.age: 34 female .bipolar I .psychosis .panic/anxiety disorder
Seroquel XR 100mg
Labetalol for high blood pressure