Posted by cybercafe on May 26, 2005, at 1:54:08
In reply to happy » cybercafe, posted by yesac on May 24, 2005, at 15:37:37
> > Been happy for about a year and a half now.
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> > So yeah.. .things can get a lot better... even after failing 23984 different meds (again, this could be avoided if the doctors even READ the american psychiatry associations guidelines for treating xxxxx disorder).
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> So what drugs are you taking (if any) now that you're happy? I'm just curious because I've failed many many meds too, and I'd like to know if anything can ever help my symptoms, because it sure doesn't seem like it.Uh... I'm not sure if I'm a rare case with mild rapid cycling bipolar and ADD (and what was once MAJOR anxiety) but I managed to get down to low dose parnate (30 mg) and the occassional clonazepam (maybe 2 mg / day?). The fact that I havn't been taking a mood stabilizer and have been stable not only for the first time in my life, but for .. at least 1 year consistently? is quite strange to me. One would expect parnate to cause some degree of hypomania, I had thought.
Lifestyle changes were extremely important as well.
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