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Why can't they make a drug that would keep me at hypo?! Stability for me is nothing more than a lesser form of depression. Or boredom, mediocrity, indifference. It's simply the absence of mania or severe depression. I hate it! I'm not motivated to do anything, I'm just here, able to go through the motions with no real passion or joy to it.
Now that my buzz-kill meds have brought me back down to earth, I feel unenthused about l life again! I want to stay in my "happy place"! I've spent WAYYYY to much time in the darkness and it is draining the very life out of me! |
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It would be amazing if they could make such a drug. It kinda sounds to me like you're still experiencing depression. That happened to me-- I came out of depression but not fully... and I felt just like you are describing. It took a couple of med tweaks but I finally got back to true stability, and I"m grateful. I love hypomania but for me it always comes at the cost of crushing depression.
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I agree with mountainbard. It sounds like depression from what you are stating. I was stable for just over a year, until recently, and that's not how stability was for me. I was at peace, well close to it, happy, motivated, enjoying life, etc. Maybe the buzzkill meds aren't truly working?
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I hear ya! I'm a blank page. Not happy, not sad, blank. Thank you meds?
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I want a new drug! One that keeps me hypo. ![]() |
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DX: Bipolar 1 Anxiety Tardive dyskinesia Mild cognitive impairment RX: Celexa 20 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg Geodon 40 mg AM, 60 mg PM Klonopin 0.5 mg PRN Lamictal 500 mg Levothyroxine 125 mcg (rx'd for depression) Trazodone 150 mg Zyprexa 7.5 mg Please come visit me @ http://bpnurse.com |
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Lol, me 2!
But when I want a pick me up, I'll bump up my Prozac a wee bit. 8 hours later all is good. |
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Mania is a series of symptoms that can cause marked impairment in functioning or cause harm to self or others. I’m just brain storming here but sometimes an inflated self-esteem can reach delusional proportions, a decreased need for sleep can alter brain functions, to be more talkative than usual can screw up your social life, a subjective experience that thoughts are racing can reach psychotic proportions, distractibility and psychomotor agitation does not help, and a excessive involvement in activities with high potential for painful consequences can make a person severely dysfunctional. All of these are symptoms of mania or a person non stabilized.
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Not hypo, but flying slightly before hypo mania
If there was a drug to do that I would finally feel like I am supposed to belong to this earth
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DX: Bipolar 1 Anxiety Tardive dyskinesia Mild cognitive impairment RX: Celexa 20 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg Geodon 40 mg AM, 60 mg PM Klonopin 0.5 mg PRN Lamictal 500 mg Levothyroxine 125 mcg (rx'd for depression) Trazodone 150 mg Zyprexa 7.5 mg Please come visit me @ http://bpnurse.com |
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Tell your pdoc how you feel. Keep journals and mood charts. These will help convince the pdoc you're being compliant and know what you're talking about. |
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Also, as for hypomania, I can see why that would be appealing to people that are more on the depressive pole of bipolar... but it's overrated, just saying from someone who lives on the manic side of the pole most of the time. It's always a balancing act for me to not tip into full blown psychotic mania or a mixed episode and this is with me taking all of my meds exactly as prescribed and doing all the other right things that are good for stability. |
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