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Originally Posted by outlaw sammy
GREAT FEEDBACK! And it's super that so many of you are feeling "normal," but "normal" to us is not necessarily normal to the normal folks. I too have been "normal" since the last time that my pdoc changed my meds to include lithium. Can you image going all these years taking a rainbow of designer psychotropic medications and no one even thought about the gold standard lithium?! Oh well, I haven't had a single episode in over sixteen (16) months! Because I'm a rapid-cycler, I normally would have had five (5) episodes without meds, and at least two (2) with the meds I was previously taking. So, YES IT FEELS GOOD TO BE "NORMAL," but I still feel those little mild after-tremors. My therapist jokes that I must suffer from "baseline insanity."
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I am right here with this conversation. I felt "normal" after a month-long crazy state with mixed and not quite sure what I was feeling, but not really able to function in this world.
I came out of it and was feeling great for a week before starting lamictal and I've been ramping up the dosage. Just got to the theraupeutic dose for about 3 days and bam I'm back to that lost, unsure and uneasy feeling. I think it's the lamictal. I was on lithium and still am. I think both of them is not working for me and I was feeling great with this lamictal. Don't fix what isn't broke??
Anyway. I am trying to find better ways to cope with the swings but I think that I swing naturally more even when "normal"??? I agree without the energy and mental clarity that is "ME" I don't feel right, but the depressions are unbearable.