I basically blacked out for two weeks. Not really eating, barely sleeping, maybe a total of two hours a night. I was functional to some degree, but apparently people were very concerned. There were conversations I had only imagined. I couldn't tell the difference between what I had said and only thought. Il couldn't tell between dreams and reality. I would get very upset because i thought someone had used my bank card and obsessively checked it or thought someone was supposed to meet me somewhere and didn't show. I just knew I felt severely depressed and was trying to hide it. People told me that I was acting agressively after the fact, but i have no idea what they are talking about. The best way I can describe it after ending up in the ER is that my brain felt shattered. It took me awhile to get back to some degree of "normal" though I never really completely recovered and I am scared everyday it will happen again. The worst part was when my best friend since highschool later told me she could tell something was going on, but was in a place where she had to deal with her own problems and essentially couldn't take me on. It ruined our friendship. We are still friends, but I will never trust her or reach out if I end up in a bad place.
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Bipolar I
Effexor 300 mg
Lamictal 400 mg
Trazadone 50 mg
Seroquel 200 mg
Ativan
The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.
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