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Adding a New Medication
I saw my prescribing nurse practitioner, and she’s added a mood stabilizer to my regimen of medication. It’s called lamotrigine. I don’t know what the non-generic name is. It seems that the past two...
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Stopping One and Starting Another
I had to stop the lamotrigine. It has some potentially fatal side effects, and I noticed the symptom of one of those within the first week of taking it. I called my prescribing nurse practitioner, and...
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My Head is Spinning
This is just a quick note to report on a medication change. I take gabapentin as a mood stabilizer. The dose I was taking in the morning was making me very light-headed, so the nurse and I decided to...
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Hospitalization
I’m fresh out of the hospital where I spent the last four days getting my medication balanced. If you read my previous post, “Manic 2,” you know I was not well. I went to the hospital not long after...
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Mania 3
Sigh. Here I sit at my computer in the middle of the night when I should be sleeping. My mind is racing. Everything I touch is magical, and colors have meaning. The tapping of the typing speaks to me...
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Getting Help and Preventing Suicide
Please, let me reassure regular readers I am not suicidal. As it states in the tiny “about” paragraph on this blog, I am merely here to share my experience, strength, and hope as it relates to living...
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Overbearing Emotions
It’s a sad day for many. A massacre occurred at an elementary school in Connecticut in the U.S. Many small children lost their lives, and many brave adults did, too. As soon as I heard, I shut off the...
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Feeling Surreal
Can time be experienced as more than simple aging and decay? I wrote recently how my negative self-talk had stopped. I’m happy to report there’s been no resurgence. I won’t call this permanent, but...
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One Nice Thing
My friend suffering from major depression contacted me after a long quiet spell. Actually, I initiated the communication reaching out to him. We’ve been sending text messages for a number of days now....
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Coping with Anxiety
Yesterday was not an easy one for me. It was busy with emails flying about and doctor appointments and phone calls. The emails were unfortunately very confrontational, and they caused me a lot of...
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My Schpiel
New clients view me with a mixture of distrust and curiosity. I am usually introduced to them by a case worker who gives little information about me or about what I do. Initially, I am seen as part of...
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