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About Me
EricaM1021
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About Me
I am a retired registered nurse and only became disabled by my illness in November. I was engaged to be married this month but an exacerbation in my illness caused the end of my relationship. My daily activities, when I can get out of a bathrobe, include shucking and jiving, moving and grooving, poking dead things with a stick, dancing with myself, making a little couch fort and hiding, dysfunctional grieving, building stuff. painting stuff and reading the newspaper.
I am a retired registered nurse and only became disabled by my illness in November. I was engaged to be married this month but an exacerbation in my illness caused the end of my relationship. My daily activities, when I can get out of a bathrobe, include shucking and jiving, moving and grooving, poking dead things with a stick, dancing with myself, making a little couch fort and hiding, dysfunctional grieving, building stuff. painting stuff and reading the newspaper.
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Zombie apocalypses, air guitar, morbid obsessions, low-brow culture, comics, culture-bound delusional syndromes, miniature Second Empire style furniture, Italian Baroque architecture and sculpture, prions, creeping, busting moves, road trips, tater tot warfare, hoarding things, couch cushion forts, flat-track rollerderby, Hitchcock and Fellini film fashion, ghosts, ghouls, monsters, vampires, Italian horror movies from the 1970's, glass eyes, mental illnesses-particularly bizarre ones, celebrity mug shots, getting awesome, makeup, eating candy, reading constantly, rocking, trouble every day.
Zombie apocalypses, air guitar, morbid obsessions, low-brow culture, comics, culture-bound delusional
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Close Bipolar Disorder
I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. I became unable to work in July of last year. My wedding was recently cancelled, which has lead to a great deal of pain and anxiety.
Treatments
- Abilify Working / Worked
- OK. Expensive, so it causes me to get anxious that my doctor wont have samples.
- Lamictal Working / Worked
- Changed when I became manic.
- Lithium Working / Worked
- Working well, but weight gain.
- Tegretol Working / Worked
- Worked well at first, then stopped working.
- Topamax Working / Worked
- Worked well for a long time. Taken off when mania needed to be stabilized.
- Wellbutrin Somewhat Helpful
- Worked well at first, then stopped helping.
- Electroconvulsive therapy Working / Worked
- First round helped my depression. Second round made me manic.
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