Replies to '08/01 Extreme Highs and Lows'

Quote From: superm0m

There is hope, I promise! Start checking out books from the library about manic depression, I know I keep posting "Bipolar Disorder: Rebuilding Your Life," which walks you through a pastor's experience of child molestation just like you, on to years of suppressing that, years of living before he ever realized he had bipolar. Then to the slow and painful realization he had to take meds, and truly the rebuilding of his life. Patty Duke's book was equally unique about how she found out, and her erratic nature before meds. The Unquiet MInd was fantastic because it's written by a dr. who didn't even realize she had bipolar until she was basically in her residency, even though she was around the clinical terms of mental illnesses all the time. So she sheds some amazing personal and medical light on the subject.

I guess the main amazing hope for you is that this is an illness that can be managed, even if for every step forward sometimes there are two steps back.

The second thing is that the posts here have been fantastic on pointing out the importance of meds, finding the ones that work but never quitting. If you had high blood pressure and medicine was helping you do better, you wouldn't get off the medicine; you would realize it was the thing that was helping your body be healthier. (That analogy was given me when I thought I was ready to get off Zoloft because my anxieties were lessening). You're welcome to email me; my email address is in my profile. It's easier to be shy by email because of the anonimity. : )