i might as well just post in every illness forum!

[bondavage]

i've been mainly posting in the panic disorder forums so i thought i'd turn my attn. to this forum..


i also suffer from manic depression/bipolar depression as well as panic disorder.
i just wanted to make myself known in here as well as in the panic forums.

sometimes i tend to focus most on the illness im facing THAT few months..
but i shouldnt lose sight of the fact that all of my disorders can play off one another and i need just as much help in this catagory as any other.


the support from the message board is amazing.
everyone really deserves HUGE HUGS for being so supportive and kind to everyone, even in the midst of their own reality in pain.


i know how hard it can be just to put on a smile for the benefit of others, but we all do it. and deserve a lot of credit for it. :) !!

[apple]

That is one great thing about this place isnt it.   Everyone trying to help eachother as well as themselves!!

I am sorry you suffer so much, but I was feeling a little lonely in here.

Are you on meds to control your bipolar??  I'm on effexor, clonazepam and lithium.  Altho I have been soo sick since on the lithium.  I scarcely eat anything and am tired ALL the time.  I'm wondering if there is something better than lithium.  It helps the mania and negative thought buit is wrecking my stomach.
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anyways nice to see you here.

[baaad_blak_sheep85]

I feel the same way, the only thing i've ever been 'diagnosed' with is depression but looking around at different types of mental health problems it seems like i have every single type! My doctor prescribed effexor xr for me which was effective when no other medication was, but I cannot take anything like that right now as I am pregnant. Emotional wreck lately with hormonal imbalances/changes, and trying to cope with losing my mom the day after mother's day this year. What makes it worse is that I didnt call her to wish her a happy mother's day because we werent getting along....now I wish I would have forgiven and forgotten. Every time I hear Christina Aguilera's "Hurt" I cry and hurt and am guilty because I know just how much it hits after it's too late...

[apple]

I was a wreck when I was pregnant too.  I wish there was something safe to help you thru it.  Sorry about your Mom.  Its never too late to tell her how you feel, she can hear you and is looking out for you I'm sure of it.

[Knightsaber]

Apple!

I have to tell you something about lithium that you probably won't like.  But it turns out okay at the end!
My dad was put on lithium for being bi-polar, and he got very sick after that.  Not painfully-obviously sick, but sort of blah sick.  And there were foods he couldn't look at.  He was on it for about two months and he and my mother were out doing something and his neurologist called, almost in a panic (irony)...he wanted to talk to my dad as soon as humanly possible.  I said I thought he was out eating or something and I could take a message.  The doctor told me to go find him!  So I did, I brought him home and the neurologist had waited on the line for the hour it took to get him and bring him home.  It turns out he was taking a lethal dose of lithium and they admitted him to the hospital that night.  It took a few weeks but they had to carefully monitor him to figure out how much he should be taking. 

I'm not trying to scare you or anything, but lithium frightens me now.  I'm concerned about it.  A lot.  I'm sure you're already on an approved dose, but if you aren't sure, I'd find out.

[apple]

Thanks Knightsaber,

Actually I have been regularily checking my levels.  I'm weaning off the lithium and will try a different drug.  AGAIN.    Hopefully it will get better. 

[sortedsonic]

Hi everyone, new member here...........

just thought I would let you know that I have been taking the mood stabiliser Carbamazepine for a long time now and I think it works well for me.  I know that it can be an alternative to lithium for some people.  Sometimes it is difficult to tell exactly how well it works because I have been on it for so long however I do know that when I go off my meds it has a major effect.

I also feel like I fit into a number of the forums in here - generalised anxiety, health anxiety, other mental health issues etc. 

Best wishes

Sortedsonic

[bondavage]

i've been debating getting on the lithium..
ive been taking zoloft for my anxiety issues but nothing seems to be working. my depression has gotten worse, therefore.. so has my substance abuse.
i recently read that SSRI's can actually worsen my manic-depressive symptoms..


i dont know. manic depression has cost me my job, my apt, and the man who i was on the road to getting married to.


my mania isnt as bad as my drawn out symptoms of horrible depression and paranoia/anxiety issues. i have HORRID depersonalization and vivid frightening dreams.
i feel like im rotting from the inside out.

i'm at my wit's end. im going into some intensive therapy.. but right now i'm afraid that i'm not taking the right medication for my illness.. it's a horrifying thought that i've been putting something in my body for MONTHS that has not even been aiding my situation..