I would say that I am stable on my meds now that we found the correct dosages. I was hospitalized for a month until they found the right doses of my new meds. I got off of geodon because it stopped working.It was so hard being psychotic but I was safe in the hospital.

My support system is good I suppose. My immediate family does accept the fact that I can be cruel and not really explain mys elf. Why would I hurt my mother verbally when my anger was at my father. They could not see I was hypomanic. my sisters abandoned me. You would think that I had not been cruel to my family, and that was against my nature to do that. They thought I was evil.
anyway I skipped christmas that year. And went on a cruise with my friend and we had all kinds of fun together.
any ways I have not spoken to my friend in years. she moved to atlanta. my other friend moved to TN. we try to talk on the phone at least monthly. some times2 months. She says she wants to move back here to lafayette LA.
I would be thrilled for that. She has a lot of friends here. and she and I can get back into our friendship.
I have one friend that we get together every so often for lunch. She is taking the weight loss injections and has lost 42 pounds.She takes the minimal amount for maintenance But she still is losing weight. She looks great You can really tell that she has lost weight.

any ways. my husband is my primary support person but he doesn't get it all of the time.
He doesn't recognize when I am hypo, I have to tell him. I can go from hypo to full blown manic in a short amount of time. I have lost 24 pounds in 5 months. I still look pregnant. I am no longer in the obese range for my bmi I am in the overweight charts. So I am happy about that.
I am eating well trying to find a happy medium with food.
I love to eat. but my self care is lacking. I am off work today and tomorrow
I took a nice shower and washed my hair it had been 5 days.
My house needs cleaning top to bottom and I am not much into it but this is
a day that I could make a dent in the unofficial list of things that need to be cleaned. I will start in the kitchen. I slept a lot today.I need 8-9 hours and usually get that. With meds I can get to sleep pretty quickly. I have been taking my requipt wrong. I was kept awake at night for hours with restless leg syndrome. I read the directions and it said to take it 1-3 hours before lights out. SO since I have been doing that I sleep like a baby.
sleep is so needed for my being stable.
although I say that. I was put on prosac and went manic and was sleeping well!!!
sorry you got more than You bargained for sorry to high jack your thread.