So angry at this illness
I have reached the stage where I am just frustrated and angry about being bipolar. I should be cool about it, I know. Acceptance is important but I'm definitely not there yet. I have done everything my pdoc has said. I stopped drinking, smoking pot, not getting enough sleep; I take my meds like a good girl every night, and I am still cycling. We have tweaked my meds a thousand time and my pdoc says that I am likely to cycle a little bit no matter what. She's totally right that my cycles are no where as extreme as they used to be, but I'm so tired of this ride. I would do anything for just three days of "normal" in a row. I don't want to die, but I do want this to stop. Now. Tonight is really bad for me and I am totally flipping out. I took my meds (300mg Lamictal, 15mg Abilify, 25mg Seroquel) and an extra 1mg of Klonopin. Aside from feeling a little tired, nothing is working. I just want to get drunk but mixing booze with the meds is probably not a good idea. Then again... I have crappy insurance that only pays half of mental health stuff so I can't go to the hospital if I need to, so I have to maintain at least the appearence of sanity. I just feel like giving up on trying to be good. If I'm gonna cycle and feel like shit anyway, why stop drinking or smoking or being a grandma about my sleep? Really. I really like my pdoc though so I'm going to try to be super awesome this week. Then maybe she will believe me about how I really am trying everything. I just really want the "magic purple pill" that will fix all of this. Argh. I'm drowning.
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