Lol you wrote your part of the novel before I had a chance to respond to the rest of the last message! I think I may have carpal tunnel by the end of this haha!

No my mom refuses to take any meds. She says they don’t work and gets off of them every time she’s ever been on them. She’s learned to ride the waves of BP. Right now she’s in a depression. She didn’t realize she went manic around the same time as me, maybe a little before... she started going through the depression when I went into the hospital. She never realized she was going through episodes. She just thought the triggers of life made her feel a certain way. She was in complete denial. Even now that she knows she doesn’t want to take meds. I told her if she goes through another high she’s going to need to because she’s getting older and it may be worse the next time. I told her she just needs to eliminate any kind of stress and keep a routine to hopefully avoid any triggers.

Hopefully my pdoc will be on board with me switching to Lamotrigine. I think maybe it will be better in the long run.

Lol the stars aligning sounds nice too! Speaking of stars, the Star of Bethlehem is supposed to be out in 2 or 3 days, it only comes like every 100 years or more. You should go try to see it. My husband told me to drive out to my dads in the country to see it better, but I just hate driving at night. Especially with the little sleep I get I don’t want to get tired while I’m driving. Yes I’m so glad you check back in to psych central! When you didn’t respond in that busy thread I knew I had to take action!! I needed a teacher like me in my life, it’s just crazy how much alike we are too!!

Oh yes if you can ever watch Handmaids tales you should, it’s really good! It’s got a twisted story line, but gets better the more you watch them.

Haha I love learning different English words from England or Australia! I thought it was so funny to find Nappy cream when I visited England... I tell my students about how we say different words because of our location.

Oh wow you drank coffee even though you were already wired?? I would forget to eat and I would start drinking coffee but never finished it.

Yes my husband did speak with me just not a whole lot. I don’t know what to talk about so I just comment on whatever he has to say, usually it’s about something in the news. He seemed a little nicer today and less irritable. Less like I’m annoying him thankfully.

Yup I posted a message this morning, so we are around 8 hours apart then. It’s about 9:42pm right now. My daughter is sitting in my stomach and periodically bouncing on it while she watches a cartoon. My husband is about to get out of the shower and then it’ll be my turn! He has to work tomorrow. Ok he’s out. I’ll be back to post more!