Posted by Janice on March 15, 2000, at 13:27:07
In reply to Re: Help! I Want to go off my meds!, posted by Cynthia on March 15, 2000, at 10:37:04
hi Cynthia,
I'll try to answer some of your questions, as I used to ask my psychiatrist pretty much the same ones.
If we control the bipolar part of me with medication-am I losing part of who I have been for the past 36 years?
They have discovered recently that bipolar exists in children in a different form than the one it takes in adults. Try the website bipolar child, Cynthia.
I could not separate myself from the biplar disorder. I used to ask my psychiatrist if he ever had really logical rational type people coming in
who had bipolar disorder. He said no, but that it could probably happen.Does control of moods equal control of personality?
Sometimes I wonder who I would be without this disorder, and I can't really even imagine *me* without it (in some form or another).
Actually Cynthia, I half to go now (just when you're questions were getting more difficult).
But it is progressive. I experienced a depression like I had never before when I went off my lithium.
maybe right now it is taking over your life. But maybe with the right medications and education, it shouldn't.
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