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Trippin, I've missed your presence here, I've always appreciated your directness and honesty. And I admire everything you do to help yourself, get through life, and *enjoy* life, with everything you struggle with, without medication. I choose to take meds, but have no problem with people choosing not to. I'm sorry you've been going through such hell.
I think people post different types of things at different times, depending on mood, inclination, relationship with poster, triggers, whatever. A lot of people seem to be struggling at the moment. I admit that I too am concerned about what I see as a kind of kneejerk go-to solution in response to people's posts about how they're struggling to call pdoc about changing meds; I think meds are not the issue at a given time often enough to at least keep an open mind as to other options. Though I almost always recommend therapy; I think it can help with things that medication can't, etc., etc.
I'm not proud of all of my past posts -have learned from this, though, and moved on -though I don't know if that's the case for all others (or if anyone cares either way for that matter). But my hope, my positive, when it comes to BP, is celebrating (and dealing with) who we are outside of it, which is most of who we are, and getting to know ourselves well enough to know what's not the disorder: all those wide open spaces in our lives and our relationships and our experiences that aren't marred or contaminated by symptoms and labels and medications, and etc. So this is what I post about a lot -these days.
I'm sorry you're not feeling safe here. Maybe there's a mourning process of what is no longer here -previous members and a dynamic that inspired you that you feel is no longer here (or at least not lately). I hope you have safe places to share and be positive, elsewhere, and with the friends you've made here.
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