Quote:
Originally Posted by fern46
If your symptoms are truly mild I agree that is a pretty aggressive strategy. I had extreme psychosis, but I was able to communicate to my doctors that I am med sensitive and they started me on a starter dose of an AP and then went from there. I was never put on a mood stabilizer. I responded well, so they kept me at the starter dose and never went up or added new meds.
I feel like overmedicating really shifts your brain chemistry and neural pathways in unexpected ways. It should be the goal of every practitioner to prove new and stronger meds are needed.
What is mania typically like for you? Do you have psychosis or bleedover symptoms when you are not in an episode?
|
I get really talkative, outgoing, fast, and exuberant. I feel like I'm on drugs and can do anything because I'm convinced I'm the most awesome person on the planet. I dissociate sometimes and lose control over what I'm saying or doing which is kinda scary. Paranoia creeps in and I've thought cops were staking out my house. It didn't really feel all that severe to me despite what my doctors and family say. I ended up in the hospital for a bit last time because of it but at no point was I completely incoherent or hallucinating like crazy. As for psychosis, it's pretty mild for me and can happen after episodes. I mostly hear talking, sometimes screeching (hard to describe), see visual distortions like breathing walls or seeing steam come off my hands. The talking in my head is bad enough that I couldn't sleep. Nonstop chatter.
But yeah it's pretty mild overall. I don't know why I'm diagnosed type 1 to be honest.
Again, it's all really mild.