Posted by phidippus on January 25, 2014, at 22:59:05
In reply to Re: Dropping Trileptal, posted by Christ_empowered on January 25, 2014, at 4:11:50
> Right now, the line up is simple: 30 Abilify in the morning, up to 300 Neurontin (max 3 doses of 100mgs/each), plus my Orthomolecular combo.
Crap. Where's your mood stabilizer? Please don't be one of those people that thinks their atypical is going to provide mood stability.
>I'll be taking Tofranil-PM at nightWhich may destabilize your mood. A mood stabilizer will prevent that.
> I don't care for Depakote.
Neither do I. I think anticonvulsants are problematic mood stabilizers. So many side effects. Nothing but Lithium for me.
> I don't know my diagnosis.
Bipolar I seems accurate.
> If I had to diagnose myself
Its more about which diagnosis you accept. You focus alot on your psychotic depressive symptoms, but you've experienced manic and mixed states which excludes you from a psychotic depressive diagnosis. If you were schizoaffective, you would have psychotic symptoms outside of mood episodes-is this the case?
> My least favorite shrink called it severe narcissistic personality disorder
WTF? I don't think Narcissistic Personality Disorder is in the DSM manual anymore.
> ...I suspect that I don't fit in the DSM because my personality is different from other peoples'
Personality is a separate issue from illness of neurochemical issue. When diagnosed, personality disorders are listed on Axis II concurrent to mood disorders and the like. SO, your personality issues really aren't considered to have an impact on say a diagnosis of Scchizophrenia. Your personality has no bearing on your Bipolar disorder.
>so my problems manifest differently.
Your personality traits manifest separately from your mood disorder.
>spent lots of time alone, natural born homosexual (a degree of androgyny to my personality), so...
So what?
> ...its hard to fit someone like me into a DSM that's based on observations of people with much different life experiences.Nah. Bipolar symptoms are the same across the board. Just like whooping cough is them same for anyone who gets it.
>(like a little queer Sylvia Plath, lol)
HA. Do you write?
Have you ever been on Lithium?
Eric
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