All these years I have said that there are never any instances of mania, just low low low low lowest of lows and anxiety, then normal times
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My lexapro/depakote combo is not working too great either. The night terrors started up again last night, just a few days after coming out of a pretty severe low and 28 hours of sleep. I am going to have to go back into the clinic and try something new. I have started losing hair due to the depakote as well. I hope you start to feel better. I'll be thinking of you.
Perhaps it was my mother's psuedo-Christian science outlook (she leans liberally on God healing, while still appreciating modern science), but I've always been weary of pills. It's not that I think they're the devil or anything, but many famous figures in history (Tolstoy and Dostoevsky in particular come to mind, and John the Baptist and the biblical prophets too) would probably have been diagnosed with some sort of disorder.
Perhaps I'm a bit liberal in faith, but I just wish we'd find a gentle medium of what can be medicated and what should be dealt with.
I'm not trying to say you shouldn't take your pills (I'm no pharmacist), but I think everyone should consider carefully what they put into their bodies.
I just don't know, my Grandma had ECT and it didn't do much to help her. Times have changed though, and it seems to help some. I would rather see you in therapy working through some issues than having your body go through the physical trauma. Has therapy ever worked for you? Me? I just tell lies when I go, so I never get anywhere. Plus, I don't have many "issues", I had a decent childhood, I had my share of bad things happen, but for me it is basically a genetic thing, passed down to every woman in my family. Therapy hasn't worked well for us, and in past generations, before the drugs came along, we either self medicated or went to the loony bin. I would say to keep taking the meds and before you do anything drastic, make sure you have researched the hell out of it.
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I hope you start to feel better. I'll be thinking of you.
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Perhaps I'm a bit liberal in faith, but I just wish we'd find a gentle medium of what can be medicated and what should be dealt with.
I'm not trying to say you shouldn't take your pills (I'm no pharmacist), but I think everyone should consider carefully what they put into their bodies.
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I would say to keep taking the meds and before you do anything drastic, make sure you have researched the hell out of it.
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