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It's included in your deluxe bipolar package with no additional cost. What a deal, eh? (Hope you've got a sense of humor about it all, or you're not going to like me worth a hoot.)

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i have - can i steal that phrase?

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Zyprexa works very well when the more psychotic features present. It is one that works within an hour or so, as opposed to the typical several weeks and months of titration that so many psych meds require before any efficacy is noticed.

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i've tried zyprexa before - it really didn't like me, i put on ridiculous amounts of weight, which didn't help the depression! the only one that ever worked for me really, i mean with no major side effects, was quetiapine, but the last time i took that i landed in casualty after passing out at work. so i had to give up on that too. i think my old psych was quite keen on the idea of emergency antipsychs, he was the one that made sure there was always a prescription for quetiapine on hand just in case, but as i said the last time that didn't work out. the problem is that at the moment my immune system is stupidly low (apparently this could be because of the intense meds in the past) and the antipsychs tend to bring out any dormant infections really fast (that's how i passed out, a tummy bug i'd been incubating suddenly came on - all very dramatic, not very nice....). so i'm a bit stuck - i do try to take my lithium and valproate but at the moment i'm torn between nausea and mental difficulties - yay!

the paranoia is fairly normal i think, what freaked me out a bit was the sudden onset and dissipation - the whole thing only lasted a few hours, and came on so fast. that hasn't happened in a while. eek.

nice to meet you too