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 | The year is nearly ended, and for me it's ending on a high note - my psychiatrist and I have found a combination of medications that works. It's been a long and hard siege - more than a year long. So my message to you is: don't give up. If your meds aren't doing what you need them to do, work with your pdoc. (If you have to insist - do it.) The drug that is making the difference for me is one I tried years ago, and then it gave me problems. But the mix of medications was quite different then. Drugs don't work in isolation - the combination is often critical. Work, really work, with your doctor. I'm proof it can pay off. |
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More Than Just Manic Depression
"Manic depression" was identified at least as far back as the 2nd century AD. But bipolar disorder is more than manic depression. The spectrum of bipolar disorders encompasses a variety of symptoms that shade the range of moods between the two extremes.
| Mental Illness Recovery - A Personal Perspective
"Where does my mental illness end," asks Andy Behrman, "and where do I begin?" He goes on to talk about his personal answer to this question and whether there is truly such a thing as "recovery" from a mental illness.
| Diagnosis in Doubt
I'll bet almost everybody asks themselves, "Do I really have bipolar disorder?" at some point. For me, that happened 19 weeks after my diagnosis. One of the things that's changed since then: I do now own a CD player (I inherited it). Here's the story.
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