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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I have not had a single mood episode since I went off all medications > (seroquel in November and tegretol in February). But on medications I was in > rapid cycling hell for three years. I never had a grace period in between mood > episodes while I was on meds. I went through such agony, suicidal lows, giddy > irrational highs. Winter before last I spent six months so badly depressed that > I thought about suicide every single day. IT was during that horrible > depression that I decided to go off Wellbutrin, clearly it was not helping my > depression. > I felt better and all depression went away soon after I stopped wellbutrin. But > the damage had already been done. Six months of depression, and I’m talking > severe depression was more than my mind could cope with. So the seroquel was > added. > Anyway I feel better than I have felt in three years. I only hope my mind can > recover from the damage done to it by psychiatric medications. > I was first drugged up when I was 14 and my mind was still growing. I wonder > what permanent damage this did? Childhood bipolar disorder my ass! > If a pill does not work the only answer it to take a higher dose or more pills. > Shit, I’ve gone down that road twice now.. once when I was 14-16 and again > starting when I was 29. Both times ended in disaster. > Going to see a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things that a > person can do today.
Being brave and foolish, I took that risk. My experience has been different than yours. Any chance that YMMV ? I don’t expect everyone to have exactly the same experience I have on meds. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> — > Psychiatry is to Science > as Astrology is to Astronomy
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> Going to see a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things that a > person can do today. > —
I think it is too often a question of luck. I was first given imipramine, which really made me very sick, and reporting this I was taken off. In a bad luck situation – you may be given more of the same. With the lithium however, I felt rescued from a very bad emotional state. So, I think that a sympathetic review of the drug reaction is what the doctors should aim for. I’m sorry you started so young – i confess i know little about that and do raise my eyebrow, well squint at least. Squiggles
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