Quote From: lonalea200 It is very helpful to keep track of your symptoms that is as you remember them. Also make a chart anda at the end of the day rate what your mood was for that day. After awhile you will see if there is a pattern. But write everything down ! It is important. You just have to keep trying till you find a pdoc, that you get along with and wants to help. I have had poor pdoc in my day. The medications I am taking is : Abilify, Seraquel, Prozac, Wellbutrin. I am supposed to be taking Lamictal and Clonazepam, but I stopped them on my own. Been off of them for awhile now. When I want to share to someone that I have a mental illness, I do, otherwise I don't it just depends on the situation. Most people are accepting but I had one person respond to me wanting an e-pal and as soon as I let him know that I had a mental illness....well it has been 1 1/2 months and I have never heard from him again. So with todays society we have to be cautious about who knows. The media has given mental illness such a bad name that people freak out when they hear the term. However, on the other hand I am not assamed of having a mental illness and I usually tell people. People seem to think that if you have a mental illness, you have the plague. But the majority are very likable and sweet people. Why won't TV protray that image !? Liz
P.S. I take a total of 22 preshriptions, but the majority is for other problems.
Hi...You sound so smart! I will start to make a chart thank you! I will start on Monday! I am desperatly seeking a pdoc. Some of those are so insensetive then you dont want to open up eh! I take effeor topomax and xananx. If I didnt I would be up. As it is I am only getting like 4 4.5 hours asleep anyway. The doc wants me to take during the day too WHICH I REFUSE! It makes me all groggie and off my game. I dont like that feeling....
I would rather not feel like that even though he says I am VERY VERY anxious. I dont know why I am like this...Well I spent the other day with my MOM It was a very lovely day actually. First time in many many years we had a heart to heart she is a retiered school teacher. She is a nervous nelly too. I think I get my worrying "tapes" from her but I need to erase them. Its about time..
I also because I had gatro by pass in 1999 have to take a big fat iron pill because I became enemic and calcium and monthy for the rest of my life have to get a B12 shot in my butt! Ouch! I never heard voices or saw things out my eyes...They always ask you that when you go into a pychward.
But I have had passive suicideal thinking. That is how Dr. Phil saved my life. I was deciding to become invisable or magnifcent!
Oh I will tell you one thing though which I remembered about my sicko father. He would drink in the pantry at the bottom of the stairs. My hearing became "acure" so when I went upstairs I heard the ice cubes clinking and him stirring his drinks and I always felt him watching me and I can remember pretending to sleep. I dont want to remember anything else. I know what my older sister told me what happen to her......I know what happened to me via my oldest brother....I have something that popped up in my brain one night that my sister made me lay on top of her one night and that is all....I know my brother robbed me and contiued 3 x aweek for years and years.
I dont wish to dig deeper.
However I do believe my LABEL is incest survivior not what you have. But I am so proud how well you have handled your diagnosis and I do wish to be your friend! Keep up the GREAT work.
We have to stick together!
