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#26
Dec 19, 2016, 05:34 PM
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If you can function well enough, however difficult it might be, I wouldn't try any meds. If you can stay focused, depression may be offset by hypomania and there's no real problem. If you start to do other things than what you're supposed to do, there may be a problem.
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#27
Dec 19, 2016, 05:46 PM
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Depression is less of a problem to me than hypomania. When hypomanic my work is just disturbing all the plans I have. When depressed I won't be doing anything else anyway, so I can just as well go to work. My problem is mainly trying to level out my episodes with drinking and then getting into risky situations.
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#28
Dec 19, 2016, 05:55 PM
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Have you've seen the psychiatrist 3x and aren't getting meds? I understand being cautious with these meds but that's just to much.
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#29
Dec 20, 2016, 04:39 PM
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Maybe it's just me but if you are not sleeping, cutting and drinking, you are not in a safe stable mode. Are you telling them this is happening?
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#30
Dec 20, 2016, 05:20 PM
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I totally am. I am not cutting anymore and just recently went back to drinking because I am lovesick and need to get distracted (even though obviously I know this is not the way to do it and I am feeling so guilty for not knowing how to handle it in a better way). I won't do anything to hurt myself so probably I am safe but well, I feel that noone is really taking me seriously because there is something like a gap between my high functioning (but I am ALWAYS functioning and as they tell me very intelligent, I feel I could keep functioning dead and buried, because I needed to perform as a child) and my way of feeling. Right now I am mostly lonely, still agitated and energetic, and very, very sad.
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Dec 20, 2016, 06:08 PM
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I would recommend self-advocating as much as possible. You know yourself and your mental experiences best. I am also age 25 and high functioning, but I have always been taken seriously and received treatment. Being high functioning does not preclude you from suffering. It just means you are strong and perseverant, which are strengths that should be considered along with your struggles. The therapist and pdoc should be basing the diagnosis on your symptoms and how they're interfering with your life.
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