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Originally Posted by Row Jimmy
I take lithium and Celexa. They don't bother me so why not? I'd prefer to avoid an anti psychotic but my p-doc isn't much of a meds guy and he is more or less "hands off" thus I probably won't face that concern.
Personally, I think the key to avoiding (or minimizing) medication is to own my own maintenance. I understand the need for medication, but we all should work outside of medicine to stay healthy and even-keeled. I relapse here and there but I know that it's part of the game. It will be a lifetime of mindfulness.
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I refuse the dulled nature that I experienced under lithium. But I don’t know of a better MS.
I’m in complete agreement with your second paragraph. I’ll make the physical/mental symptom analogy once again: if I begin to have chest pain and think, “it will go away,” and fail to pop a nitro tab and I begin to have another heart attack and my defibrillator is working to save me and I think, “it will go away” and I die, I’m responsible for my death because I was too effing stupid to call 911.
We recognise our mental symptoms, too. But sometimes we’re too effing stupid to attempt to alert ourselves, our internal 911.