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From acuriousfish
October 8
Welcome to the Bipolar Community! It's a great place for support and friendship. If you have any general queries about DS, just ask me. When you are ready maybe post an introduction under General Topics at http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Bip...
Mark, Community Leader, Bipolar.
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Close Bipolar Disorder
Treatments
- Lamictal Working / Worked
- terrible muscle spasms, proliferation of new freckles in my twenties, feel like an old man, good mood stabilization
- Seroquel Somewhat Helpful
- Knocks me out, success of intended effects hard to judge
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- Keep changing docs various character flaws in docs
- Remeron Working / Worked
- Good mood uplifting while having a somewhat antipsychotic effect no ill sideeffects except some sleepiness and weight gain
- Klonopin Working / Worked
- Mild relaxation at 1 mg twice a day no ill effects
Close Anxiety
Treatments
- BuSpar Considering
- Have suggested to doc as non-addictive, no Rx yet
- Klonopin Working / Worked
- Mild relaxation, no ill effects
- Remeron Working / Worked
- Good anti-depressant and anti-psychotic effects. No ill effects.
- Psychotherapy Not Working
- No amount of counseling has ever relieved anxiety directly
Open Depression
Type: Clinical (Major) DepressionTreatments
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Too Soon to Tell
- Docs have not applied it as well as the theory suggests
- Effexor Not Working
- Horrible Serotonin Syndrome or Mania including aggression, agitation and anti-social behavior. Bad cold-turkey withdrawal effects.
- Prozac Not Working
- Placebo effect was all I ever got from low dose Prozac. Positive life changes allowed me to stop this med.
- Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful
- Good at fire-fighting (reacting to problems) Bad at proactive solutions.
- Seroquel Somewhat Helpful
- Not for depression, for psychotic symptoms of bipolar
- Support from Friends & Family Somewhat Helpful
- They keep me alive. Need more support from them and others.
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