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#26
Jan 30, 2018, 11:22 AM
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100%. I'd probably be divorced by now if it wasn't for my mood stabilizers.
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Jan 30, 2018, 06:53 PM
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It's up in the air for me. Psychiatry was pushed on me, and sent me into the first psychosis of my life. Since then I was labeled as "bipolar" and then medicated and stuck with it for the rest of my life.
I admit that I was really out of control, but I was very ambitious, driven, successful and highly focused and intelligent. They just caught me with a net. Honestly, I would have been just like Donald Trump if they didn't catch me.
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Jan 30, 2018, 07:46 PM
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Although I have never found adequate treatment for the degree of depression, psychiatry has helped to keep me alive when things are at the worst.
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Jan 30, 2018, 08:21 PM
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My psychologist helps me a lot. However I went thru 2 or 3 before I found this one that I feel I can talk to about anything. Feel much better after talking to him. See him about once every 3 weeks. My psychiatrist only deals with my medicine.
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Jan 30, 2018, 10:21 PM
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For me, definitely. However, there are certainly people out there with every diagnosis who do okay without meds. I'm just not one of them. There's certain meds my pdoc will tweak up and down depending how I'm doing. Other meds always stay the same (for instance, I remain on 400 mg of Lamictal). Last month, I had hope that I could lower my AP. It didn't work. I am not on the highest dose I've ever been on, but I cannot go too low either. It wasn't withdrawal symptoms, because initially, I was feeling okay on the lower dose. All the bad symptoms came back though. The sedation of the AP increase is starting to kick in finally since adjusting it, and I can already tell it will be a good thing. Meds certainly don't cure me, but they make a difference. My goal is for some day to be able to lower them, but apparently, I just can't right now.
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Jan 30, 2018, 10:25 PM
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Jan 30, 2018, 10:29 PM
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A psychiatrist shot me out of the sky with Olanzapine and probably saved me from being fired when I was manic. That’s a yes.
Except for the part where the previous psychiatrist prescribed the propranolol, which caused the manic event above. Hmmm....if that hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t be diagnosed. That sounds nice, but I guess I would be suffering the hypomania/depression cycles. I think I’m overall better, but I seem to be rather numb/dull. |
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