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Originally Posted by LucyG
Google Gwen Olsen, former drug company rep and watch the interviews of her on youtube as she gets into how psych meds cause the same type of memory issues as having a stroke.
I was on meds for bipolar 2 for 13+ years, and I went from being very sharp with a great memory to where I have a hard time expressing myself verbally. I do much better writing, but my ability to recount something I've read or seen verbally after taking all those meds is embarrassing.
Stay off meds if you can. There are lots of great alternative treatments such as amino acids that allow the brain to produce the neurotransmitters that keep your mood stable.
Here's a good article on treating depression using alternative treatment.
Treating Depression Naturally Is Possible ? Clean's The New Black |
Was lithium what caused you the cognitive decline? I am afraid of it since it easily cause sedation, weight gain, and as far as I know troubles thinking.
I have tryed amino acids but I don't have money enough to buy all of them, they help a bit with mixed stuff but not with depression. Glycine and gaba are keeping me non-irritable most of time, I can handle it with natural treatments until it gets too severe, and since I live alone I have nobody to ask for help in case I have a mental emergency, I just self-hug
I was planning on taking a 'mild' mood stabilizer like lamictal or gabapentin which has few sinde effects for some months until I find the way to deal with the worse of this without anything.
I want to add taurine, glutamine and niacine to my mix. Now I take glycine, gaba, melatonin with tryptophan and other B vitamins, and a multivitamin with coline and inositol. It helps a lot.
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Originally Posted by newtobipolar
Taking a mood stabilizer has saved my life. I'm sharper, more clear headed and sharp than I've ever been in my life. Lamictal is a wonder drug
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Probably I am going to be given Lamictal.
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CPTSD and some sort of depression and weird perceptions
"Outwardly: dumbly, I shamble about, a thing that could never have been known as human, a
thing whose shape is so alien a travesty that humanity becomes more obscene for the vague resemblance."
I have no mouth and I must scream -Harlan Ellison-