Posted by BetweenDreams81 on September 18, 2010, at 5:05:10
Hi, I'm new here, and have just started to come to terms with the reality that I have been consistantly swinging between depression and hypomania for the past 4 years...mostly unconciously until recently. This past winter (my depression def seems to be seasonal) I basically lived under the covers for 4 months...after feeling comfortable enough to share this with a good friend, he helped me slowly pull out of it. The fog had finally lifted by June. These swings make being self-employed disasterous to myself and inconvenient at best to my clients. I cannot afford to sleep under the covers during the height of my busy season (I am an equine sports therapist by trade, and winters in FL are my busiest part of the season)
So, where do I begin? I looked up Lithium and was reading about it and then got sidetracked after finding a few sites that mentioned LiOr. Has anyone used this with success?
I am afraid to go to a pdoc and then be prescribed drugs that will make me swing with drastic side effects that make it difficult to be productive. I'm very much alternative minded (since that is part of my own genre with the horses) and prefer nature over synthetics if at all possible.
What are your thoughts? Where would you start?
Any/every piece of advice or commentary is appreciated!!! Thank You!!!
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