I have a question.First it should be understood that between the therapist I was seeing at an Indian Health Center, and my Psychiatrist of numerous years there is a difference of diagnosis on my BP. One says Type II, the Psychiatrist Type I ( Read more... )

I am Bipolar rapid cycle with severe anxiety disorder- I also have this insane disorder, with no name, similar to fibromyalgia. It causes pain in my back, but stems from childhood trauma (molestation, incest, rape) but it was just recently diagnosed by a pain doc. (The disease causes pain, it just happens to manifest in my back; it has something to ( Read more... )

anyone have experience with Invega for treatment of Bipolar I?

I was just put on 6mgs of it. I'm also on 1000mgs of lithium twice a day.

Recently coming off Zyprexa and Depakote after a manic relapse.

My psychiatrist says Invega will "calm the rollercoaster" - does he speak the truth?

How is it that, even with the consequences glaring me in the face and knowing the number of times I've been through it, I can always convince myself that my latest mood-isode wasn't really that bad and maybe I don't realllly need meds, etc.? When I'm stable, especially for long periods of time (8 months and counting atm), it's so easy to forget how ( Read more... )

Bean will be 14 in just 4 days ( Read more... )

ALRIGHT SO
I went to see the head shrinker about my insomnia. It was the only time I have come out of her office, in the year I have been seeing her, and felt much better. We talked about what could be stressing me out and such, and came to the conclusion that I am not a crazy person (at least, like, in this particular situation, I'm still a crazy ( Read more... )

Sleepiness
Bean is having trouble falling asleep in school again. His classroom, by its nature, doesn't sit very much. But the minute they do, the teacher(s) tell me he's fast asleep in just moments. When I ask Bean about this he says he doesn't remember falling asleep or vehemently protests and says he wasn't sleeping.

Meds is a potential culprit; ( Read more... )

Do you ever have one of those days that you just don't want to take your meds? Even knowing what happens if you are off them for a few days. I have been up all night because I didn't take my night time meds and I don't really give a shit. I went for a walk at 3 am. I live near some horses so I just decided to go see them. It was WONDERFUL. 3 out of ( Read more... )

Today is going to be my third day totally Effexor free ( Read more... )

I posted this back in April because it seemed that my daughter had some type of seizure/episode. Pdoc said if it happened again we'd discuss med changes, he attributed the episode to Wellbutrin ( Read more... )