Posted by Racer on August 11, 2006, at 1:34:33
In reply to Re: Bipolar? Self diagnosis..., posted by jealibeanz on August 10, 2006, at 23:33:30
> I always forget pertinent ideas, so writing things down is good, but I don't really want to be reading from a list.
You wrote that to Phillipa, but it made me laugh: I have a spreadsheet that I take along if I see a new psychiatrist, with all the meds I've been on, how long, what results, what side effects, etc. Yeah, I know, I'm nuts, but your comment still made me laugh. Mostly at myself.
> That makes sense about OCD/anxiety like manifestation. While I don't think I have clinical OCD, I do get fixated on ideas, especially since this matter is a huge part of my life.
Yeah, and the fixation is a big part of the OCD stuff. (I'm too tired to write properly. If I get to "Whosamawhatsit," though, I'll stop and finish in the morning, I promise.) I wouldn't have thought I had it, although I knew that I was a little weird about some things. One day I was telling my T something, just as an aside, and she started laughing and said, "That's because you have OCD!" We've talked about it since then, and I guess it's fairly official, although it doesn't impair my life much. (Unless you count telephone calls to a friend for diagnostic consults...) Mostly, I get some sort of idea in my head that I can't really get out. Sometimes it's something silly but understandable -- I can't stand having sticky hands. Dirty hands? Yeah, I can kinda handle that, but sticky? Get the heck out of my way and hold that bathroom door -- I *need* to wash my hands. Sometimes it's something that used to be semi-adaptive, but no longer is -- used to be that an A reduced my anxiety, now I have huge anxiety about the possibility that I might NOT get an A. And sometimes it's just kinda stupid -- I've started taking some classes, and find I'm spending all too much time considering what classes I'll be taking next year, and what that means in terms of other classes I might take instead or as well as, and whether I should take class [x] next summer or wait until the fall term since summer classes are so intense or -- it's nothing more than energy being wasted. (Energy I could use to post here! lol) There's very little of what many people think OCD is about.
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> No,thankfully no history of anorexia (how does that translate to being able to get less sleep anyway?),Sorry, I get confused about who's who sometimes. Part of anorexia is hyperactivity. Sometimes that means early wakening, or restless sleep, and then getting through the day with less sleep. (And good that you don't have that history.)
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> I was only on Paxil and Buspar for 2-3 weeks each. Wellbutrin for 4 months. Effexor for 6-7 weeks.Other than the WB, that's not really long enough to know if anything would have worked. It's worth another try, especially of Lexapro or maybe Zoloft or Celexa. Paxil is actually the most anxiolytic, but if you had trouble with it, that's probably not a good one.
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> BTW, it is my experience that anyone I've dealt with in the mental health field- psychiatrists, PHD's, psychologists, therapists, ect. are condescending, sketptical, and demeaning. They treat my like less than a person. Which is why is prefer my GP, who makes me feel like an equal who deserves to get better.
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>Yeah, some of them can be [insert derogatory term/phrase here], but they do know more about medications than GPs do. And I wouldn't say you're treatment resistant, either. I think you posted that somewhere else. TRD generally means adequate trials at therapeutic doses of at least two classes of meds.
Good luck.
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