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- I'm starting therapy today, can anyone tell me what to expect at a first appt? The therapist mentioned getting to know each other and doing some assessments.
- I've been taking alkaseltzer sinus meds for a cold that I have and they make me feel weird. Pressurized speech, mild euphoria, more talkative and friendly than usual, irritable, wired, distracted. Is this a possible hypo brought on from something...
- I still recognize a few names posting so I wanted to check in for a minute. Hello to all the new "faces" I see and hello to all of those I've missed. I've been pretty stable and generally boring lately, which is a good thing, but I've been MIA and...
- Has anyone ever experienced withdrawal symptoms while cross tapering antipsychotics? I've been down to .5mg of rexulti for 3 days and on 4.5mg of vraylar for about 2 weeks. Just today I noticed body aches, sore joints, feeling flushed (no fever),...
- Anyone take vraylar? I couldnt find much on personal experiences with side effects and the results people saw.
- Last week I started having awful nausea, headache, fatigue, weakness, just feeling plain awful. It just so happens I was due for labs from the pdoc at the same time and I was found to have low blood sodium. Anyone else ever experience that? It was...
- I've experienced this several times in the recent past and I can remember experiencing it for as long as I can remember, off and on. It seems to have gotten more frequent and/or more disturbing. But does anyone else experience yelling or screaming...
- I'm wondering who has been diagnosed as having/had psychotic features or an episode of depressive psychosis or anything of the like. What were your symptoms? What was it like? Have any of you ever heard voices? What were they like? Internal or...
- TWWhat do you do when you feel like you just cant do it anymore? Between the stress and demands of everyday life and my anxiety, paranoia, agitation, depression; basically uncontrolled raging bipolar, I just cant stop thinking about how bad I want...
- I've been in a mixed state almost constantly since getting out of my depression. Or in some ways I think my depression itself was sort of mixed, definitely not classic or pure depression. It was at times an agitated, anxious depression. The...
- https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/07/professional-delusion/This article touches on the debate between bipolar meds and trusting your psych dr vs seeking alternatives. Theres alot to take away from it, but what stood out to me the most was that...
- Anyone ever try ranitidine (zantac) for weight loss? My pdoc suggested it, said it would help with weight gain associated with AAPs and was safe to take with the other meds I'm on. I've never heard of zantac for weight loss. Everything I read about...
- What and how have you told your kids about your condition, if they're younger? How much do you think they've figured out on their own by your behavior/actions? If they're older, did they notice it growing up? Is it something that they gathered on...
- To calm racing thoughts? Or at least give them some direction to go? My brain is constantly in overdrive and if left to it's own devices, always gets stuck in obsessive thoughts about things that make me feel terrible. I've started to mentally...
- Every parent wants to give their children a memorable summer vacation with lots of fun quality time. I hate to admit it, but my symptoms are more severe and my stress level is higher with both kids at home. I work 2/3 days a week and work is like a...