Bipolar Disorder - Teen Support Group
This community is dedicated to teenagers struggling with bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. Talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, and learn from others' experiences
Hi, I joined daily strength years ago when I was diagnosed with bipolar n.o.s. I was like 13 when I signed up. It was when I was 11, around December when my mom was told. My mom told me she cried when our therapist broke the news to her.
I'm 16, and with my bipolar I have gone through many medicines. I have my mom and a therapist who's known me for 5 years as my support. I am taking invega, and I feel I have lost my soul. I'm nothing of who I was, and I miss my happy, caring self. I hallucinate, which has never happened in this medicine, I had these scary angry thoughts, and I'm so horrible to everyone including myself, and once I realize what I have said I feel like this god awful person.
Does anyone have any advice on what to do when going trough the stage of trying to find he medicine that's just right, and maybe some experiences you've had when on the wrong one, or if you're going trough the same thing?
I'm 16, and with my bipolar I have gone through many medicines. I have my mom and a therapist who's known me for 5 years as my support. I am taking invega, and I feel I have lost my soul. I'm nothing of who I was, and I miss my happy, caring self. I hallucinate, which has never happened in this medicine, I had these scary angry thoughts, and I'm so horrible to everyone including myself, and once I realize what I have said I feel like this god awful person.
Does anyone have any advice on what to do when going trough the stage of trying to find he medicine that's just right, and maybe some experiences you've had when on the wrong one, or if you're going trough the same thing?
Now taking lithium orotate, which is a gentler form of lithium and is over the counter natural. I am much happier and more in control, but now I am manic pretty much every day. I'm also getting better with mending the family bridge.