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Bipolar and ideas of how to help ourselves beyond medication
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I have experience with one and it didn't go well. Well, not physically. I think that's what makes me so bitter about this is that I could finally rest a little because the Lithium made things less chaotic mentally. But then I would spend hours (literally hours) being psychically sick, and that only got better when I stopped taking lithium.
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My doctor put me on Lamictal which seems to work well. However, one side effect is what they call "essential tremors" meaning for me when I write I look like I'm writing with my left hand (I'm right handed). So he has me taking 1-2 Propanalol each morning with the Lamictal and it works like a charm. I'm so grateful for a good Psychiatrist and Psychologist. Since I have moved 3-1/2 hours from where I used to live (don't ask .... it was hell to move), I do drive up once a month to see my therapist ..... I'd seen him for 12 years, through the times when I was in the hospital, going through my divorce (from a Narcissist), and everything else that life throws at you. So, even though I only see him once a month, it's sort of a tune-up.
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