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Originally Posted by AstridLovelight
Glad to hear I'm not the only one concerned about Pope Francis. He just ripped into the Vatican bureaucracy a couple of days ago, so there's probably a lot of grumbling and plotting going on!
And congratulations on over twenty years sobriety! And I hear what you're saying, for me one of the most healing parts of support groups has been being there for other people--as much as I can be anyway.
SMART is great. I haven't been to a meeting in a while, though. It's designed, as you probably know, to help with a variety of addictive behaviors. I used it for alcohol and my eating disorder. It helped a great deal with the alcohol, but I've since relapsed with my ED.
And thanks for the input on the psych meds, I really appreciate your views. One of the tragic things about having bipolar is that part of the illness is being resistant to outside help. So I don't even know if I'm competent to make an informed decision right now. I feel one way one minute, completely different the next. I don't trust myself, but I don't trust doctors either. It's a quandary. I have a dr. appointment tonight, though. So we'll see what happens and whether or not I can bring myself to take whatever he gives me.
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I understand. Especially if you have positive mania than who wants to take a drug that will take that away. I had a full blown manic episode with lots of psychosis that lasted over a year. The reasons it happened are complicated. I was flying high though and loved it. I took all the meds but they didn't really touch it. Even halidol.
I think a big factor would be if you do have manic episodes how big an impact to they have on your life. The meds for controlling the manic side are more effective than the meds for controlling the depression. And I believe that with bi polar I there is more of a biological factor than say the wide varieties of uni polar depression that exist. If it is bi polar II (which I think I have) it is a more difficult decision. My hypomania when I get it doesn't effect my life to much so I don't worry about it. If it is bi polar I with mixed and negative mania then that would make my decision.