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Old Mar 06, 2020, 11:52 PM
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Originally Posted by ~Christina View Post
The thing about hypo/mania and psychosis is that the person having it often can not remember just how bad it is.

From your description I would not consider you as being mild. But that doesn’t mean you need snowed under with meds , who wants that ? No one I know.

I think you can approach your Pdoc and T and come up with a plan to slowly wean off one of your meds and see how things go ... you first need a slow taper, every med has a half-life that needs factored in and then your brain needs time to go back to working sans that Med, years ago I went off lithium, it sucked for me. But honestly my brain didn’t really go back to functioning on its own for at least 3 months.

So talk to your Pdoc, as long as you go very slow and have a plan in place that if you suddenly start to have X symptoms you can get right in to see what adjustments are needed.

All along the way you need to be actively using coping skills, good healthy foods, sleep hygiene, exercise , certainly track your mood daily, you can catch an episode coming before your in the middle of it.

Just be honest
Thanks, Christina.

I'm hoping some time in the future my doc will be willing to lower or eliminate some of my redundant meds, but right now she's hesitant because I'm still trying to recover from a possibly med change-induced depressive episode.
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Thanks for this!
~Christina