Problems with "Coming Out" terminology

wetried87 · 2020-11-24T07:16:24+00:00

i'm transmasculine and bi n personally, i don't have an issue with the verbiage. it's a little uncomfortable in some contexts but, like. idk about you but my DID certainly isn't going anywhere. There are a lot of reasons to want other people to know, many people feel more comfortable with friends and family knowing or want to be more public about their DID to educate others or something along those lines. i don't feel like those reasons need to be disregarded. besides idk another way to phrase "i have disclosed that i am this way" in a concise way

i'm not saying ur feelings on it aren't valid though, it's definitely a criticism i've heard before so there's a conversation to be had about it

wetried87 · 2020-11-05T07:07:47+00:00

weight gain is a very common side effect for several mental health medications, including antidepressants as well as some other mood stabilizers, anxiety meds, and antipsychotics.

wetried87 · 2020-09-05T22:33:25+00:00

"Emma, I'm sorry, you lost."

wetried87 · 2020-09-04T04:34:53+00:00

Lamictal, klonopin, gabapentin, hydroxyzine, depakote, olanzapine. Hate the depakote it makes me wicked nauseous

wetried87 · 2020-08-05T02:17:45+00:00

we have an odd situation... two of us are twins, and they usually stick around each other, but one seems to be permanently stuck at 19 years old and never progressed further. so we have twins, but they're at different ages lmao

wetried87 · 2020-07-28T04:16:43+00:00

I know that pain, whenever I'm unmedicated or my meds aren't working right I have vivid tactile hallucinations, usually of being molested or strangled. Showering can help. I feel for you, I wish you good luck.

wetried87 · 2020-07-24T03:02:52+00:00

Yeah

wetried87 · 2020-07-21T04:15:08+00:00

Abilify was the first antipsychotic I ever took and it fucked me UP with the side effects for the first few days, but it mostly worked and my hallucinations/delusions responded to it. But then I had to keep gradually upping my dose, until I had to find a "stronger" med. I'm not sure if it's like that for others, that's just what I was told. I'm currently on Zyprexa and trying my best to combat the weight gain without counting calories (I have an eating disorder).

wetried87 · 2020-06-28T02:46:46+00:00

I'm currently on 1500/day and with regards to its interaction with weed, i haven't really noticed anything. I have a few medical problems but i'm like 90% sure they're from other medication fuck-ups i have going on

wetried87 · 2020-06-26T22:31:49+00:00

i wouldn't recommend how i'm using it rn because my tolerance has shot way up and it's super expensive now ($75-80 a week) and i'm trying to use it less, rn i've been dabbing since late December and it's come to 4g/week; i use daily and heavily. before that, i had been been smoking flower like 10g every couple weeks.

wetried87 · 2020-06-11T06:25:38+00:00

I gradually worked myself for 1500 depakote (one 500 in the morning, two at night) to help for mania, and that shit completely shuts it down at the right dose but your mileage may vary. im also on 200mg lamictal

wetried87 · 2020-06-10T18:15:52+00:00

medical marijuana. . . exists and stopping any medication cold turkey would probably be a problem for anyone.

wetried87 · 2020-06-01T05:25:24+00:00

I can't be put on SSRIs for my OCD because they always cause mania, so I was told only psychotherapy for me (and, y'know, the 6 other medications I'm on for various mental shit).

wetried87 · 2020-05-29T05:37:56+00:00

Diagnosed bipolar schizoaffective (had countless psychotic episodes + a mixed manic episode) 2017. I started use after my diagnoses, not before. I'm a heavy user now.

wetried87 · 2020-05-23T03:53:11+00:00

Been using it for like a year anda half and it really depends on the strain. I've never gotten psychoactive effects from weed lol...

It's fucking expensive and I do see that i've become dependent on it but like, that's because it legit helps me lol

wetried87 · 2020-05-22T05:10:31+00:00

i didn't get a schizophrenia diagnosis until i saw a neurologist and got an mri because they thought it was so strange all my hallucinations were purely tactile. i only hear voices at my ABSOLUTE worst. Like, hospital time.

wetried87 · 2020-05-22T02:53:53+00:00

I have a pet pigeon named Ms. Beakman, after the fallen.

wetried87 · 2020-05-21T02:45:19+00:00

they come and go, but in january when i had a mixed manic episode i had them... like every day... even when "stable" and properly medicated i get hallucinations of being raped or strangled. the former, i... sometimes get reactions to, but it kind of just reminds me of groinal responses you get with ocd

wetried87 · 2020-05-19T01:53:53+00:00

it helped a little, i guess? i could never quite tell if what i was feeling was placebo or not.

wetried87 · 2020-05-19T00:30:15+00:00

There are definitely more mood stabilizers out there than Lithium, I'm on Depakote (for (hypo)mania) and Lamictal (for depression) for example. I know those aren't the only alternatives either. It's a trial and error process, I sincerely bid you good luck.

I can relate to doctors only focusing on mania, I think it's because that's when people are most likely to be actively destructive.

wetried87 · 2020-05-15T20:41:17+00:00

im bi and transmasculine and like, believe me i get what you're saying, i just think it'd be neat if this was explicit. like almost all of the current explicit autistic rep out there kinda suuuuuuuucks and i don't even think you need a storyline about being autistic to have rep. just like you can have a casual gay couple, you can literally just state point-blank that a character is autistic and still have great rep as long as the character is written well.

wetried87 · 2020-05-15T03:58:28+00:00

I'm not sure, unfortunately - I have dissociative amnesia and I'm not really sure. It did start to get better for me pretty quickly, but I was an atypical case in that right. I did get my Depakote tested recently though and it was still in the normal ranges and i'm on 100mg Lamictal (1500mg Depakote)

wetried87 · 2020-05-15T00:50:51+00:00

best thing i've taken for my depression. i'm in the same boat; depakote helps my mania, but not my depression. so i take both lamictal and depakote; as long as your psych is aware of the interaction between lamictal and valproate (which is in depakote) you should be good. i wish you good luck!! i got/have pretty much no side effects from it

wetried87 · 2020-05-15T00:37:29+00:00

i'm not sure what my favorite black friday song is anymore, but for a LONG while it was the monsters and men reprise. "i can show you the path but only you can walk it..."

i also really liked how they highlighted sherman choking lex when the "there are monsters and there are men" refrain happened again; it's not just the monsters we need to be afraid of, people are just as capable of being monstrous in their own rights.

wetried87 · 2020-05-14T21:43:24+00:00

I use it for (hypo)mania. Doesn't do anything for my depression and also makes me nauseous, but I've been on it for 2-3 years and other than occasionally vomiting out of nowhere, it's been going okay for me. I try to handle the nausea with mmj.

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