Posted by ronaldo on October 7, 2006, at 14:41:32
In reply to Long-term medication therapy, posted by Squiggles on October 7, 2006, at 0:11:38
I've been taking Lithium 800 mg and more lately 900 mg for the past 25 years. That must qualify as long-term medication. I can identify with the cognitive decline and personality change that you mention. My therapist says that I scored 86% for depression on an exhaustive multi-choice questionaire. I feel that I have chronic low grade debilitating depression. I lack drive, ambition, enthusiasm, and don't get any enjoyment out of anything. I go nowhere, see nobody and do nothing 70% of the time. I'm full of apathy and chronic despair. If the UK had guns like the USA I guess I would have shot myself by now. That would probably be the kindest thing I could do for me. Waaaahhhhh!!! :((
The personality change and the cognitive decline creep up on you so secretly and silently that it's only if you have good friends who are keeping an eye on you that this insipid change gets detected.
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