This from the blog Bipolarblast
Drug addicts can be made..they need not seek…they only have to find YOU who tell them the drugs are safe.
This is in response to an article in The Washington Post:
Critics say benzodiazepines are broadly over-prescribed and can have serious side effects. Some patients find themselves on high dosages after a few [...]
It’s my understanding that this is just an altered form of Effexor that doesn’t require slow titration up. I just needed to post a link to the site, which is awesome in both its name and the wind-up doll metaphor. Puppets, dolls, wooden blocks… we all feel that way from time to time! [...]
In many cases (depressive bipolar being the signal case), those with the disorder tend to be dilettantes, tend not to stick to one thing or another. This probably has something to do with the staying power of confidence – or lack of. Although I’ve been feeling better lately, I don’t take it for [...]
I did it – I switched p-docs after more than a month of trying. He said I was going through parental issues with him, seeking approval and feeling anger. Perhaps that’s why I was leaving? No, it was because he is out of my insurance network and a little extra money goes [...]
This can kill a writer’s – or this writer’s – ability to come up with anything new to say. I want to write about my mental illness, but sometimes the illness itself keeps me from finding the right words. I write obsessively in my journal, recording sometimes every thought that passes through my [...]
The thing about bipolar is you’re never the same person for long enough to get anything important done. It’s so easy to waste your life in mood swings. Always recovering from the last low, the recent spiral that you thought would capsize you. If only you could hang onto that thread of [...]
If anyone is out there reading this, I’d sure appreciate some advice on switching psychiatrists. I’m in the process of doing that right now thanks to my current doctor leaving my insurance provider. He’s not making it easy, saying “So you’re going to kill me,” when I said that I needed to [...]