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Originally Posted by anneo59
good advice here, newgirl!!!!! I can speak from personal experience. Also, see if you can come up with other tools other than meds that can enhance staying out of depressed mode. They really vary from person to person. I wish you all the best, and am happy to speak with you further, if you like!
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Anne, I just had a session with my cognitive behavioral therapist. It helped immensely with my negative, irrational thoughts. Didn't seem to need his help so much when I was hypomanic, but today the session was extremely helpful.
As a result, I have written a note to myself and hung on my office door that says, "Stability should come in one to two weeks." (One week I'll be on 100 mg lamictal, and a week from then will be at 200). The month of August getting started on this has seemed like an eternity with anger and anxiety creeping out of nowhere.