Posted by waterfall on September 29, 2006, at 19:23:28
I've come here off and on for several years to ask for help with various meds, and I've come here for the "I-want-to-go-off-everything-please-validate-that" times, too. I stop and try to provide insight or support to others, as well.
But things are really good for me right now and I didn't want to forget to say that, too, for those of you who are in that space where things feel hopeless or the side effects of the meds are so awful it feels only the slimmest margin better than the hell of unmedicated mental illness.
I have an absolutely amazing feet-firmly-on-the-ground mental clarity "normal" even-moodedness and an anxiety level so low it isn't even there every day! Cool beans.
I'm bi-polar, on 1350 of Lithium, 80 of Geodon, 5 of Lexapro and .5-1 of Klonopin.
Note of utmost honesty: OK, so I've only felt this way for less than two weeks and before that I was about ready to jump off a parking structure (had it picked out and everything). At this point, I'll gratefully take what I can get. Come to think of it, as a practicing manic-depressive I'll take what I can get pretty much for the rest of my life.
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