Do meds make you dumb ?

Before meds I was a highly effective person. I was manic most of the time...pissed ususally...but we moved from our home town and all hell broke loose. I went through a series of bad doctors...and we moved again I was working on my RN, fishished a 2 week full semester. (A full semester in 2 weeks) My husband went into the hospital for back surgery...my MIL got in my face, and I told her I should have slit her throat by now. Yikes! Right!! Now I'm a breezy not "with it" person....I lost my special needs triplet, and the police were called...this is the third time....I wonder about the meds too. She is a handful....but it's to the point if someone leaves the door open she's going to run to the park!!! I'm going to have to put her in a 4 year old sized high chair to restrain her. But yes. I think my "unawareness" is the cause of my medication.

I certainly think my meds have " dumbed me down" prior to my Dx of bipolar I last year I was apparently hypomanic / manic for years with a scattering of depression .. I would work 6 out of 7 days all 12 hour shifts I let nothing bother me Because I just didnt care well it all came crashing down about 2 years ago whne i woke up in pain so bad i was sobbing ,, eventually they decided " fibro" so i tried tons of meds for that ..all useless .. became suicidal and was in the hospital for a few days .. started seeing a T he and my Pdoc saw what was so glaringly there " bipolar I " so off i go on rounds of meds to see what works and what doesnt ... I feel dumb as hell anymore ,, I fight to find words even fight to pronounce simply words ( my husband has noticed this also)

I think its a combo of meds and the diease of bipolar ...

One more thing just came to mind. My doc told me that mania is damaging to the brain. This i did not know until a couple months ago. Such a drag that feeling so good is bad on the brain.

I was told that too. So depressing.