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Originally Posted by ~Christina
I'm not really understandig why your Pdoc isn't thinking " Mood stabilizer" as thats "usually" what is needed for Bipolar Managment in the long run. But most people present a total mess in the office and the first thought is slap them hard with a AP or AAP to get them out of immediate danger then tweek things down the road. but that can often lead to having med after med layered on each other.
Hope you find a good solution  |
Thanks, she said that she didn't think I seemed bad enough to need a mood stabilizer, but then pushed for an atypical anti-psychotic. I think it may have been because I was too scared to talk about the suicidal/homicidal ideation issues I was having, and mostly just talked about the sleep deprivation, mild psychosis (pretty sure it was sleep deprivation causing it because I was aware I was hallucinating) and agitation problems. She agreed that based on my history that my previous diagnosis of BP sounded right, but she wanted to go with mood disorder nos and just use Abilify. I rejected the Abilify and asked for Zyprexa because at the time I was terrified of Abilify.