Posted by Simcha on November 24, 2001, at 11:33:06
In reply to Re: Long Term Medication and Prognosis Concerns » Simcha, posted by Mair on November 23, 2001, at 20:03:55
Mair,
Thanks for the story. I'm watching that bipolar friend I was talking about in my first post on this subject relapse into a massive manic state. I guess the plunge into depression for him won't be too far behind.
I think I'll stay on the meds. My life is good today and I do enjoy the stability. Now I just need to find things to do with all of the time and energy I have now. Stability means that I can actually progress in life! That's an interesting thought.
Simcha.
> > Simcha - if you were me (in the past -:) ) you'd take yourself off the med without consulting much with your pdoc, because you didn't think you needed it or, in my case, because you didn't like the side effects or thought it wasn't working. Then you'd feel really good for a few weeks maybe until the inevitable slide started happening. Then you'd really be cooked because you'd have to start that whole miserable process all over again of adapting to the right amount of the right drug, and you'd feel really depressed because there had been this reality check telling you that you really did need these drugs probably for the rest of your life (distressing in and of itself) AND you'd feel pretty foolish and even simply self destructive for having put yourself through that to begin with when you could've just left well enough alone and stayed on the drugs. When I think of all of these things, I can and do resist the impulse to bag the drugs.
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> Mair
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