When I was diagnosed, I was in therapy for child molestation and ptsd. They put me on prozac and I got irritable yet productive, happy but too happy. I was manic in other words. So we tried lithium am did the blood work and my levels proved that I was bipolar.

My first reaction was one of elation. I had an answer, the missing piece to my life. The part of me that I
could now get to know had been brought to light. Then it was a reality, an illness that I had to manage the rest of my life. So many emotions in a very short amount of time. It was hard to process. But it was liberating too because it was mine. I had to take care of myself. Its hard to take the fact that you have to take medications. But a few times of trying life without them, you’ll start back, I’ll lay odds.

Just try to be patient with your doctors. It is usually not the dr’s fault anyway. Where they find these
people I don’t know. They will get you on your meds and on the right treatment plan for you. Like I said, be patient. And be patient with the drugs themselves. It takes a while for many of these medications to work.

Good Luck and Best Wishes!
Stormy

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