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Wanderer of Distant Stars
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Aug 27, 2024 at 09:42 AM
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I am a big advocate for therapy, so I choose that. If I had gone to a psychologist, (can't prescribe medication), instead of a psychiatrist all those years ago when I was struggling, I may not have found myself in this mess I've been in the past 24 years. Really something that bothers me to this day.
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Aug 27, 2024 at 01:59 PM
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I do, but I wouldn't say obsessively. I guess it depends on how much thought I feel like is required. Like, if I'm having one of those appointments you're supposed to summarize your symptoms for the whole since your last appointment period, then yeah, it's on my mind a lot. I probably think of it least when I'm having my most severe symptoms though, funnily
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Aug 27, 2024 at 08:20 PM
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I think about it often during episodes. Like now. I’m depressed af and keep telling myself it’s the bipolar talking. Wish I was stable. Seeing my pdoc soon and hoping he can help me out. I’m feeling rather treatment resistant at the moment. Think we’ve tried almost everything AD there is. It’s not working.
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Wise Elder
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Aug 27, 2024 at 08:41 PM
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About every 4 weeks. I seem to typically have at least some email contact between sessions as well.
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Sep 02, 2024 at 03:08 PM
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Yes. I am so glad that it has cooled off, at least for now. I'm actually cold today.
Are you still friends with anyone you grew up with? __________________ Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 1.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Sep 02, 2024 at 06:41 PM
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Friends? No.
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Sep 03, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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A:Well, I planted some flowers on my porch this year that open in the daylight, sleep at night, sometimes look so dead I consider throwing them out and then they recover. They really don't know what they need. They haven't even reacted to our many 90 degree plus days. I do not know their name though.
Q:How often do you get a good night of sleep, however you define that? __________________ Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 1.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Sep 03, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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I think I average once a week to get a decent amount of sleep. But just recently I slept for 10 hours, that was marvelous and a rare rare occurrence.
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Sep 05, 2024 at 09:03 PM
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A: I get decent sleep most nights using several PRNs if I have to. Every month or so I have a bad night when I either don't sleep or don't fall asleep until 6 or 7 AM.
Q: Can you take pills without water? How many? __________________ Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 1.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Sep 08, 2024 at 08:05 PM
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A: I can take 9 pills without water. I don't recommend it but when I accidentally didn't have water the other night I did it and it wasn't really a problem.
Q: Have you had COVID? __________________ Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 1.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Sep 09, 2024 at 08:41 AM
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I have never had COVID. I didn't even get COVID when both my daughter & husband were sick with it. We all were vaccinated, but it is strange that I never got sick.
Have you ever broken a bone? If so, what bone(s) did you break? __________________ Bipolar 1, PTSD, anorexia, panic disorder, ADHD Seroquel, Cymbalta, propanolol, buspirone, Trazodone, gabapentin, lamotrigine, hydroxyzine, There's a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in. --Leonard Cohen |
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Sep 09, 2024 at 04:11 PM
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Maybe. I was in judo class and I got foot swept by the head sensei and I think that broke my toe next to my big toe. It hurt a lot. We buddy taped it and I never went to the doctor.
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Sep 09, 2024 at 05:17 PM
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I’ve never broken a bone. I chipped my thumb tho when I slammed it in a car door. I nearly passed out from the pain. But there was nothing they could do about it.. it was fine.
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Sep 10, 2024 at 02:44 PM
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A: I broke my fibula when a girl pushed me in a cross country meet and caused me to fall. I also broke a toe on vacation when I walked into a hearth with bare feet.
Q: What is your earliest memory or the earliest one you care to share? __________________ Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 1.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Sep 10, 2024 at 04:05 PM
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Sitting on the floor in my grandmother's kitchen banging on metal pots and pans with a wooden spoon while she was at the stove cooking. I must have been 3 or so? My grandma would always pull out her unused pots & pans and give my sister & me spoons to drum on them while she was cooking. She had to have had the patience of a saint to put up with all that racket while she was cooking. I stayed at my grandparents house a lot with my sister before I started school. I absolutely loved it!
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Sep 10, 2024 at 07:01 PM
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My first memory if of my mom bringing my new baby sister home from the hospital when i was two. She sat with my sister in her arms and i peaked at them from across the room hiding behind a chair. My mom said i wouldn't go to her because she had left me. My mom asked me if i wanted to hold my sister and i said no because i was afraid i would drop her. And now my sister is gone. My baby sister. Younger than me. So unnatural. Two years now.
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Sep 14, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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Go to my mom's house and pester her (we live next door); facetime or youtube; reading; streaming shows, exercise when I'm finally healthy enough (rough summer with injuries and now covid).. Sometimes just walking to the mailbox helps.
What color is your living room and bedroom? If you don't get to paint what would you choose if you could? __________________ Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 1.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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Sep 14, 2024 at 11:22 PM
#78
My living room would be a pale forest green and my bedroom teal, unfortunately I have apartment white.
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Sep 15, 2024 at 04:19 PM
#79
Black. And then I would stick those glowing stars all over the walls (where there's room). Unfortunately we also have a white walled apartment.
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Sep 16, 2024 at 01:51 AM
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I have exactly what I want but I am likely moving and may have to re-think my colors. Not sure if one will be too bright. Thanks to COVID I haven't seen the new house yet (I'll be a basement tenant). Anyway my bedroom is a grey-ish green and my living room a pretty blue. It's not bright but it's not dull either. I hated apartment white when I had it. I rented a mobile home in grad school that was all dark wood paneling and that was better than apartment white.
What do you do when you wake up in the night and need to ride out some time as you fall asleep again? __________________ Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1600 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 1.5 mg clonazepam., 75 mg Seroquel and 12.5 mg PRNx2 daily |
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