Posted by Christ_empowered on January 25, 2014, at 4:11:50
In reply to Re: Dropping Trileptal » Christ_empowered, posted by phidippus on January 24, 2014, at 16:39:48
Right now, the line up is simple: 30 Abilify in the morning, up to 300 Neurontin (max 3 doses of 100mgs/each), plus my Orthomolecular combo.
When and if the Tofranil-PM gets covered, I'll be taking Tofranil-PM at night (I was prescribed 150mgs, which is a lot for a starting dose, so we'll see...).
I don't care for Depakote. IR and ER caused stomach problems. XR was more tolerable, but still triggered EPS when combined with Abilify.
I don't know my diagnosis. It ranged from Schizophrenia when younger to Narcissism to psychotic depression to Schizoaffective of some persuasion to Bipolar I w/ Psychotic Features.
If I had to diagnose myself, I'd probably go for either fairly manageable Schizoaffective, manic type (1 severe manic episode, plus the fits of crazy and agitation) or a psychotic-depression heavy Bipolar I.
I dunno. My last shrink was from Europe. They apparently avoid diagnosing schizophrenia when there's prominent mood symptoms and lots of lucidity. My first shrink was southern and American. Paranoid schizophrenia---ignored the mood and anxiety/agitation.
My least favorite shrink called it severe narcissistic personality disorder and prescribed reuptake inhibitors. I was all of 20 years old and homosexual, so that diagnosis strikes as suspect.
My new shrink...time will tell...
...I suspect that I don't fit in the DSM because my personality is different from other peoples' in modern US society, so my problems manifest differently. Only child of white collar academicians, spent lots of time alone, natural born homosexual (a degree of androgyny to my personality), so...
...its hard to fit someone like me into a DSM that's based on observations of people with much different life experiences. Not that I'm "special" or whatever, just that I think all that time alone, reading and being crazy from a young age (like a little queer Sylvia Plath, lol) makes it hard to categorize with current diagnostic criteria.
I imagine that if they pulled out one of the older DSMs, they could figure something out.
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