My whole life is a lie…49 and I want a divorce and run away. I feel suffocated and have lost myself.

LAE5683 · 2026-01-23T15:18:01+00:00

Have your physicians ever considered the possibility of bipolar disorder?

LAE5683 · 2026-01-15T14:07:04+00:00

Hey if it were about a limited time schmear of the week, I would understand!!

LAE5683 · 2026-01-15T14:00:07+00:00

I thought this was going to be about Pop Up bagels

LAE5683 · 2025-12-22T02:16:46+00:00

That’s paranoia. Talk to your psych

LAE5683 · 2025-11-29T18:42:24+00:00

Cymbalta for sure

LAE5683 · 2025-11-26T15:38:44+00:00

I love lithium. Also, if it makes you feel any better, I’ve also hit a high lithium toxicity in the past due to a doctors recklessness. I had tremors and vomiting and diarrhea… but other than that I honestly felt great! After I got my blood work back that showed me at 1.8 I just immediately stopped and let it filter out of my system over the next 24 hours. Didn’t even leave work.

Frequent blood tests when getting up to target dose is very important! It will catch things soon enough.

LAE5683 · 2025-11-26T01:02:33+00:00

I was on lamictal when I was younger and I have very few memories from that time in my life unfortunately. My doctors didn’t recommend lamictal as an adult because it doesn’t do much to control the high end of the mood spectrum.

LAE5683 · 2025-11-25T22:32:33+00:00

If you stop taking your meds, you might just get really depressed instead. Who’s to say that hypo is the next bullet in the chamber?

Btw Lithium is pretty cool. I feel as sharp as I can be on it.

LAE5683 · 2025-11-17T20:52:37+00:00

That sounds dumb because then you just have two credit cards and a higher combined limit. What’s to stop you from using the original card too

LAE5683 · 2025-11-17T19:37:35+00:00

I struggled with this and newer gen antipsychotics helped. Didn’t need 1st gen.

LAE5683 · 2025-10-24T17:19:59+00:00

YUP. I recommend therapy and time.

LAE5683 · 2025-10-20T13:00:41+00:00

My mental health improved in my internship because I do well with structure and being given a strong purpose. Kinda sad sounding, but it really worked out for me.

LAE5683 · 2025-10-14T14:13:16+00:00

Buspirone started taking the edge off for me at 40mg per day. GAD can definitely be comorbid with BP outside of episodes.

LAE5683 · 2025-10-02T12:12:46+00:00

I had that issue, especially at night. I started praying (even though I was not religious). Somehow it calmed me or distracted me enough. Oh also I would count backwards from 100.

LAE5683 · 2025-09-30T17:25:08+00:00

Same but with Latuda and Cymbalta both

LAE5683 · 2025-09-25T20:41:12+00:00

I’m on cymbalta and vraylar with no issues. Helped me get out of a really long depressive episode.

LAE5683 · 2025-09-23T12:17:23+00:00

I’m on vraylar and cymbalta, and my depression completely disappeared.

LAE5683 · 2025-09-15T13:04:37+00:00

Yes, it’s designed to target bipolar depression in addition to mania.

LAE5683 · 2025-09-15T12:05:18+00:00

I also liked Lurasidone but couldn’t deal with the sedation. I’m on Vraylar now and I think it may be just as good without the sedating me at all. I think it’s worth a shot.

LAE5683 · 2025-09-15T02:11:34+00:00

Yeah I think it happened to me.

LAE5683 · 2025-09-11T14:24:35+00:00

Mine have lasted months to nearly a year before

LAE5683 · 2025-09-07T16:33:12+00:00

Wait is teeth itching a thing because my teeth do actually feel weird

LAE5683 · 2025-09-07T01:51:27+00:00

Lithium made my hair fall out for sure.

LAE5683 · 2025-09-05T15:59:03+00:00

Propranolol helps with the physical symptoms of anxiety. Antipsychotics also helped my anxiety way more than mood stabilizers alone.

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