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Old Apr 05, 2018, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Guiness187055 View Post
Bipolar plays tricks with your head. I am in relative remission and I keep asking myself if I ever had bipolar in the first place. I know enough that If I stop taking my medications the symptoms will come back. Bipolar sure is a funny disease.
It sure is. I've been so stable over the past couple of years that I can't help wondering if I really have bipolar 1 or if my providers are just making a bigger deal of it than it really is. I've been experimenting with my meds recently because I am in a hypomanic phase and nothing terrible has happened, althoug I know I can't go off them entirely. I don't have the balls to try that---the withdrawal would be awful. Besides, I've been in a psych ward and there's always the chance of ending up in there again. So I've gone back to taking my pills as prescribed. The hypo should resolve on its own.
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