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Feb 12, 2020, 01:28 AM
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Member Since: Dec 2018
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 6,008
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Hey @Bipolarchic14
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Originally Posted by Bipolarchic14
I am hospitalized this summer for strong suicidal urges. While there, they tell me they don’t know if I’m bipolar but I might just be suffering from a strong case of PTSD from childhood trauma. Not married to the disorder so I’m like that’s fine this would explain why I’m still feeling like crap. So do they prescribe other treatments?No. instead they give me some kind of weird meditation to do. So I ultimately decided my medication isn’t working, they diagnosed me wrong and I get off of it.
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Did you mean to write meditation and medication? Did you mean you were already on medication and then they told you to meditate? Or was it a typo and you meant to say they gave you medication instead of another treatment and then medication?
Either way, what made you stop the medication? Was it because of side effects or that it didnt seem to be helping?
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Now my therapist has been nagging me for last two months to get back on my medication. I go see my psychiatrist today and they’re like you’re in a mixed episode and it’s going to become a full-blown episode if you don’t get back on your medication.
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What symptoms were you having that lead to your therapist and psyche to say you needed to go back on medication?
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Well wtf Can They please make up their mind. why would I take medication for something I don’t have? It’s not like the medication isn’t harmful because it is and if I don’t have Bipolar disorder then it’s not going to work for me so why the heck do they keep putting me back on it.
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I do not believe that just because you may not have bipolar that medication wouldnt work. There are plenty of people who take medication for things like ptsd. And you are right, the medication isnt without side effects but what if you were just to look at the symptoms instead of focusing on the label?
Did the medication help with anything at all?
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I go off the medication because they tell me I don’t have it and now they’re telling me I need to go back on my medication. I hate mental health professionals so much! Does anyone else have this issue? It’s like they are more focused on giving me a diagnosis than helping me. I don’t care what I have I just want to feel OK. God I hate people. I hope others are having a better day than I did. I’m just feeling so enraged right now like this is my life stop messing with me and just f*cking help me😡
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When you say you go off medication, does your treatment team tell you to do this? Or is this something you decide to do because of a diagnostic label? I ask because I would be surprised if they would tell you to go on and off your medication. The other thing is I do not know a single person with bipolar that hasnt decided or wondered if they should be on medication. I havent met a single person with bipolar including myself who hasnt decided without a doctor telling them, to go off medication. I personally believe its one of the tough things with bipolar- being med compliant and trusting doctors. Before I was compliant i would go back and forth about medicine too. And this was the 90's when there was no google and I was just winging it. Now with google I feel like more people decided to do what they want with medication because they googled something that told them it was safe. Are you having an episode?
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