Posted by linkadge on September 12, 2005, at 21:57:29
In reply to Re: Whats your story nick ? » linkadge, posted by Nickengland on September 12, 2005, at 16:06:14
Geez a lot of what you have said rings a bell. My mother too is bipolar and is on lithium.
I was diagnosed with depression at 17 (am 22 now)
I have mainly been diagnosed as unipolar althought bipolar has been thrown around once or twice.
There are a few possabilities. Either I am bipolar and I know how to hide it and controll it, or I am indeed unipolar and not responding well to treatment.
I don't have highs. I never feel "really" good.
Personally, I'd like to think I am unipolar with really crappy and inneffective treatments.
I never take my meds as prescribed. Prescribed SSRI after SSRI but I tinker so much with alternatives too (SJW fish oil Taurine etc.)
I have been on mood stabilizers (lithium, epival, tegretol, trileptal, atypicals) but I come off of them. They help to some degree, but I always come off of them because they all make me dumb and I can't do my schoolwork.
I mainly go through life just consideriny myself totally f'd up.
I'd like to commit to bipolar, but I don't have faith that would help.
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