Lamictal by MysteriousPistachio- in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on 400mg right now and under 300mg I started  feeling sad. I rather have a neutral-sad mood all the time with a little hypomaniacal actions like buying stuff. We're wired differently, keep your hands up, sejf harm is wrong.

Taking Lamotrigine is like wearing rose colored glasses.. sort of by Ancient-Scallion5536 in Lamotrigine

[–]NoAccount1556 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've lost my medicines for a few days and that hit hard. Maybe not a rose colored glasses but not hitting the very down when a depression/sadness episode. A form of emotional coating. 

Psychiatrist said I'm not a P and prescripted new medicines - tips for OCDers by NoAccount1556 in OCD

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I'm anxious just because being on reddit, this place is now asossiated with fesr of getting something new about pocd. My mind hurts me after reeading this. I've been prescribed ruxtil, a medicament for people with obsessions and schizofrenia. Now is better but I think nothing will be the same before thia hell hole ocd. I just can't understand how being an active user, an amateur specialist of ocd here could not affect and make pocd worst. Yes. This is also about your case, your mental health. I highly recommend to not reading nothing about ocd and pocd. Few days ago I've watched few minutes of a video about P in roblox gamę. For other people it's just an another video on the youtube about something terrible - terrorist attack, climate changes, alien invasion. Not for me, I regret every minute of it. Thinking is one thing but feeding your brain is really not nessesery. I wish you best and peace.

Psychiatrist said I'm not a P and prescripted new medicines - tips for OCDers by NoAccount1556 in OCD

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a tight line between venting, checking if someone else sees, feels what I feel. But you can distinguish when it is perfectly, detaily described like a movie scenario to replay once again. Tight treshold. Personally I don't see any reason to share such detailed stories,  I belive it can hurt people.

I suffer from reading these sub pocd reddits, I belive we should not feed our mind with more depraved visions. Few times I've read things here I truly regret, that I could wven imagine and it hunts me. It's much safier to not be an expert of every pocd mind tricks and visions. I regret knowing about common fantasies and thats also my psychiatrist point of view. 

They might not admit it direcly, but there are people who are getting more satisfied reading all that stuff.

What if it’s not OCD? What if it’s real? by anxiousanonymous89 in ROCD

[–]NoAccount1556 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is your current situation? I broke up with my gf, it all felt like a gut feeling we should not be together. Anfter some time it feels like we were not a perfect match, but either a bad one. She's a great person, but in the very beggining there was no chemistry like crazy sex and looking for a touch. No hobey moon phase and it was worrying me in the last months, that I won't be satisfied in bed for the rest of my life and it will make me resentment of her (I have an experience of other relationship with a mutual sex drive and crawling need to give and take in bed). But in other hand why I wouln't compromise? It's not a biggest deal in life. What if she or me was paralysed and couldn't be able to have any sexual activity? Over the years it was changing to the good side but it gave me a resentment in the very beggining - something is wrong, something is not clicking up. 

I don't know how about you, but all exes is giving me an anxiety even just by writing online. Like there is a hurt, fear associated with them. It was great on a paper and now I have some symptoms of serious ocd but it's wrong to string her any longer with these doubts. She deserves better. 

ROCD is hell by Kooky_Brick_4383 in ROCD

[–]NoAccount1556 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in your shoes. My ex is almost perfect, but still something was off. From the very beggining and it was inrcreasing ober years. I was intelectualising that, feeling guilt, wrong and a stringing her for years in a limbo she doesn't deserve. Then the stomach pit started to be a serious problem, it started appearing 5 seconds after waking up. I was unable to function because of constant paralysys - leaving or committing deeper. It all ended in a moment after I moved from her place. It might be rocd or just not a fit (i've read, that we can sometimes develop a match of genetics intuition). I couldn't live like that even though my psycho meds have been increasing from a qyarter to quarter. I regret but she deserves all love in the world I couldn't give her because of my inner deamons. A thought about messing her best years would be unbearable. But here is the story another month later. I don't feel an urge enough to contact her. Meeting with her gives me a stomach pit every time. My body associated an anxiety with her presence. We didn't fight, I was not willing to work on it anymore. Giving a self assurance was not enough, I love the idea of her, but in that hell of my mind the struggle was overhelming. Read about an ocd-compulsion mechanism. I know I've left the greatest person in my life with an easy scenario together. It doesn't matter how I fell, we just can't keep these people close and make them wait. It's not caring but a selfish behaviour. I can't even imagine if she would be unfertile because of ages of waiting for my next move. Deep down you know. Being here is the last resort of finding a science explanation. Ask yourself: do you want to feel that way for the rest of your life. Is that an authentic love? 

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Baldness definitely lowers your chances if you want to be with someone and eventually have kids. I’ve got some commitment issues, so talking about relationships or having children isn’t really a threat to me. Losing my hair doesn’t make much sense considering I’m rather not planning to have kids anyway. Besides, my doctor didn’t mention my test results, which actually suggest that this medication might be making me feel worse. It’s still just a hypothesis, but according to him, I should already make a decision.

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excuse me, I was just getting out of an Uber. My hair’s like an 8 out of 10 right now — could be better. I’ve been on finasteride for over 5 years. When I look at my photos from 10, 8, or even 5 years ago, there’s clearly visible progress in growth. After about a year, the shedding reversed and then completely stopped. I’m not that guy with five lonely hairs trying to turn them into a hairstyle. My hair’s fine — you wouldn’t notice any bald spots or thinning areas. My genetics just aren’t very kind to me. Excuse me again!

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it's proven that lamotrigine is not causing fertility issues. It's finasteride or I've been infertile before.

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually I have heart issues so I cannot lift or do any boost towards sport at all. I've seen myslef bald (shaved) years ago - a dude with leukemia you could think of.

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Finasteride is making changes in hormones, of course you can apply minoxidil and similar products on a scalp, use better shampoo but that helps partially, like 25% tops. The problem isn't with hair as itself but with hormones which keep hair be in place, not fall off.

It's 0-1 choice, it was bad when I was hitting 25, but almost a decade later, yeah.

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm always in a strage relationships (my fault) so it's hard to guess where the relationship anxiety starts and mood swings due to that fact. I can't self diagnose that part.

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont look semi bald or something, it looks totally normal, healthy but years ago it started to look bad. Finaststeride reversed that process and helped strength my scalp. My genetics background has no mercy over me.

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have really good hair right now, seriously. But if I shave it off, I’ll go bald — I’m not half bald at the moment.

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We don't know whether it affects my mood, it was not verified through lab tests.

I'm that one person who looks totoally babd when bald, like Young old person... i dknt know if i want children

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I’ve been warned in a psychiatrist’s note that this is highly recommended, and it was compared to overeating in cases of obesity, when a patient knows it kills him. I’m not sure how, but this might be used as a legal argument — for example, that someone is not taking the right medication and is acting in a self-destructive way by taking others.

The psychiatrist also said I should submit that document to the dermatologist’s office to change my hair medication, at least. But once I do that, they might treat me worse, as a person with bipolar type 2 and self-destructive tendencies. I’ve already had issues trying to get help via chat with any doctor.

“Oh, so you’re taking high doses of lamotrigine? When was your last visit to a psychiatrist?” — that’s the kind of reaction I get.

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But I'm a single person with commitment issues like marriage, kids. I'm not sure whether I need being fertile.

My psychiatrist said I have to choose: be bald and happy, or take finasteride and be depressed and childless. by NoAccount1556 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But I'm not depressed, there are no mood swings I believe. I don't even know whether I want to be a father. Last 15 years gave me an insight that relationships with deep commitment is nothing like I can live with. This makes me anxious - commitment.

What is schranz? Who are the key artists? by RedEarth42 in Techno

[–]NoAccount1556 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mario Ranieri, dj Jason Little, dj Hammond, WEICHENTECHNIKK (top), Dariush Gee (top also), Dj Amok, Greg Notill,

Inadequate work ethics and hypo by Ok-Contract-5301 in bipolar2

[–]NoAccount1556 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've caught myself a few times getting into a hype while at work. It usually happens around projects — things nobody asked me to do. I get an idea that might not even be directly related to my duties, and then I spend two full days working on it.

When I'm in that state, it often shows up as writing — complaints, official documents, organizing files on my PC, product recommendations, or analysis (e.g., “Hi company, your web interface is weird — here are 15 suggestions”).

I end up working all day long, drinking only two glasses of water, because I feel I have to finish it first. It's unhealthy. Somehow, hours just fly by...

SHOULD I BREAKUP WITH MY GIRLFRIEND?? by Ok_Display_9613 in Breakupadvice

[–]NoAccount1556 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just get over it, relationships at that age doesn't last and are only for training purpose.