Posted by fenix on February 3, 2006, at 4:07:16
In reply to Re: Help!! Bipolar, off meds, losing it, posted by catmint on February 2, 2006, at 21:05:07
Yes, and the description on the website is very real, which scared me even more when I focus on the realization that this is what I have, and may have for the rest of my life. I have every right to consider suicide, but I don't because there are certain things that I love too much in this world, and besides I got a will of steel.
But this is what I am talking about, for ever few dozen or whatever people that get helped by these drugs, there are others that get destroyed by them. And even the people that are getting help from the drugs now, may get hurt in the long run anyway.
I just wanted to warn people, to see if they really think they really need these drugs or not.
I once met a very wise and humble neuro-psychologist before, humble I say because of his achievments at Yale and Oxford yet he always used to say to me (to paraphrase because I can't remember, it was long ago) "You are your own best doctor, you are the professional here".
And what he really meant was, I am the one suffering from the symptoms and am the one aware with the way my body feels, and I am the one that decides what I should or should not do about it. When a doctor suggests a certain medicine, I don't have to take it, or I could take it. And when the certain doctor doesn't tell you of the ill effects of the drugs concerned, it is really really bad and irresponsible.
Lives get hurt everyday because they didn't know that you aren't just supposed to stop taking these drugs suddenly, for you will get horrible symptoms as a result.
All of this is unacceptable; I have seen in my past doctors of a cowardly resolve.
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