Mood: stabilised

[dreamer_easy]

I don't experience hypomania any more. I don't miss the agitation, but I miss those religious, euphoric feelings very much and dread spending the rest of my life without them. However, I discovered last night while drifting off to sleep that my faith is quite undiminished

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[outsdr]

Isnt aphasia caused by strokes? Have you seen your doctor??

[dreamer_easy]

I'm so sorry - I don't mean horrible brain damage aphasia, I mean the thing where you could not remember the last name of the actor who played Blake in Blakes 7, or the expression "to shrug off", if someone offered you a million bucks.

[outsdr]

Phew- that's a relief!

[acelightning]

"Extreme old age"? I just turned 67, and I'm only just beginning to experience what you're calling "aphasia", and even then, only when I'm severely stressed. In your case, I think it's the meds... but it would be a good idea to discuss it with your doctor.

[dreamer_easy]

I do need to have something to get the psychiatrist off the tedious lectures about my diabetes. Or is he the psychologist? I always get those mixed up.

[acelightning]

My son is a psychologist. -Iatrists have to go to medical school and get a full MD, 99% of which they never use, but it licenses them to write prescriptions. -Ologists have a graduate degree entirely in psychology, and generally know more about it than psychiatrists... and in some states, psychologists can write prescriptions also. Chances are it's your psychiatrist (the MD) who's bugging you about the diabetes.

[dreamer_easy]

He's an -iatrist, then. He's really expert with the meds, and he's supposed to be a specialist in diabetic patients, but his smug little lectures get on my baps.