Bipolar seems to have this way of robbing you, when you’re not manic, of decent conversational skills. One day you’re doing fine, talking to everyone you know, having a fucking ball, then the next you’re barely able to smile when you’re supposed to. The people around you get that particular rhythm in their [...]
How do you know what’s working is working in the highest degree possible? You can’t know absolutely that the medication you’re taking for major depression or bipolar disorder is the best for you, and that drives me nuts. Whenever I’m feeling better — right now, for instance — I tend to get [...]
An interesting thought from McManamy:
All our current psychiatric meds are the result of serendipitous discovery, based on old technologies. They get some of the people somewhat better some of the time, and we have no idea why. The drug industry made vast sums of money essentially putting old pills in new bottles. That era is [...]
So begins Balzac’s “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee,” a brilliant essay on coffee consumption – consumption working in both directions, against boredom and sloth and against the user’s stomach and ability to leave the house.
Highly recommended reading for the bipolar who still hasn’t quit the bean.
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! [...]
I am nowhere near the top of Google’s results for the search for “clonazepam,” yet that’s the search term that sends me all my (meagre) traffic. Where are people finding this link? How many pages of Google results must they be paging through to find this page?
It’s the post called “A little something” [...]
I feel like stockpiling my clonazepam so I’m taking fewer each day that I’ve got a script for. What am I saving them up for? Don’t know just yet. Nothing nefarious. Something like supernap time one weekend day. Or something to come down from a depressive high, which I might be coming into soon, with [...]
For me, it’s like an electric shock in the middle of the night. Hello, world! I’m awake! It’s 4 a.m. and it’s time to get something started. On nights when I’m extremely tired I just sit on the side of the bed, swaying slightly until I fall back onto my pillow. [...]