i am being told i am manic depressive and should be on mood stabilizers.does anyone have any experience with or knowledge of lithium? i am guessing this is what they are mostly likely to give me, since i have bad stomach aches, headaches, just straight up aches, and all the other mood stabilizars seem to make those worse. i'm not excited about the "weight gain, acne with scarring, thinning of hair, and pronounced tremor". christ. x___x
I would stay away from it if possible. My uncle was on the stuff for about a decade, and it REALLY messed him up. You get wierd mood shifts, act really screwy (in a bad way), and get frustrated really easily, plus numerous other things. Save yourself please
I dont have any advice on it prism, but I know how you feel. I've suspected I'm bipolar, never been diagnosed though, I should know for sure soon. I'm very anti medicines and all that, because I dont want to be dependant on something to be able to function "normally" (whatever that is), BUT sometimes I just sit on the floor thinking, maybe I do need something, because there are very very crazy days and I hate feeling so unstable. Sometimes it feels like too much, I dont know about the meds, but I can relate to how you feel and I'll soon be figuring out what to do about that.
My sons mom was on lithium at one point. She stopped taking it after about 2 weeks. I can ask her how it affected her because honestly I dont remember that time period very well, but I know that it wasnt good lol. Prism you only need love in your heart. Maybe I am speaking from personal experience, maybe not, Im not here to judge anyone or prove my history. But I am telling you that pills do not bring about mental change, only love does that. Good luck Namaste -
i know you're right. i'm just scared, because when i get down i don't feel like myself or like i have control... and i want to live, i'm scared some time when i get down i'll stop caring and take it too far. one time, i was having a really awful time, and i even told my mom that i didn't believe in god. but i do. that's such a big part of who i am. so i don't know. i would like to work through it, with love, but it always feels like the next time i fall i might not get back up. autentique, that is exactly how i feel. i'm sorry you feel this way too, but it's nice to know that someone so beautiful is in the same situation as me. i don't know how i feel about it. the people i've been talking to seem to think i'm in pretty bad shape. haha. i go back and forth with how i feel about the whole thing.
Alright Prism I guess I will come clean. I have manic problems myself and sort of always have, at least for as long as I remember. Plus on top of that I put myself into a heroin and morphine addiction for several years, so my ups and downs went well deep enough into the extremes. I really dont feel comfortable talking about this because I dont know if I even believe in manic depression and all that, but I cant deny the constant fluxuation of my desire to be a yogi proper and find God and the desire to tell people to fuck the fuck off and give up on trying. I guess Im spoiled because I am a single father so I have no choice but to swallow my emotions and live for him alone. I wish you the best of luck, and if you ever need to talk let me know Namaste Family Girl -
I feel the same way, like when Im super down, it's not even me. It's this other thing that I dont like and so negative about everything and I cant see the light. Then it goes away and I dont know it's easy for me to think I dont need anything, Im cool when Im feeling good, because then you have all under control, but when you feel bad it's like ok, I really dont want to feel this way again. It doesnt seem to matter my attitude towards life and people and everything I feel on a regular basis, when I feel bad, it's like a gray wave washing all that and taking it away, replacing it with just a lot noise in my mind. I made an appointment to go to a psychologist the other day.. it was a Friday, then I didnt go, because I know what they are gonna tell me and I still dont know exactly what I want to do about it. I dont want to be dependant on a medicine to feel ok, but what if I really need it? I mean, ignoring it, sometimes help, but other times it's like "you are not paying attention, let me scream louder". If that makes any sense to you. I think it's interesting though Prism, because whenever I read you I can see you are a wonderful person. So it's John and I actually KNOW him. Maybe you need to be insane to be amazing haha, I'm just saying, that I guess it has its negative sides and its positive.
