Not much use here, but I do feel ya. It's taken sooo much bloody time to find a med cocktail that for me doesn't blunt creativity. The one I'm on now works pretty well, but I'm with you on the sometimes feeling like too much mental crap to plough through. This is what I want to shout sometimes. Being depressed *is* a fucking physical disorder too. It weighs you down, drains you utterly, everything's through treacle, and just yeah.. you know it, I'm sure.
I only got/get hypomanic, but mood stabilizers.. the right ones? Really did the trick more so than anti-ds.. but then I am still on a mix of 'em. But yeah, SSRI's are a no-no for me, same as for quite a few Bipolar peeps, as it sent me really high, as in nearly hospitalization high. Luckily they figured that one out eventually.
If someone hasn't already mentioned her to you, Kay Redfield Jamison's written a few books about bipolar you may find interesting. I wouldn't label her stuff as 'self help', and I didn't find her patronising like a lot of writers are on the subject. She's a PhD and a psychologist who herself has bipolar.
Also, Crazy Meds ( http://www.crazymeds.us/ ) is a great site for reading up on various med options, and not sugar coating the pros and cons but telling it how it is with 'em. And it's not run by some evil pharm company to lure you to the dark side, which a lot of sites are.
You've probably seen these links and stuff before, so apologies if it comes across as patronising, it's not meant that way. And as much as the thoughts of a passing acquiantance mean on t'interwebs, I'm thinking about you.
If you want to rattle my braincells about this shit sometime, if it helps any, my e-mail is : sister_carrion(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk
And yeah.. apologies for the ramble.. it kinda' got away from me.
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Date: 2009-09-18 03:45 am (UTC)I only got/get hypomanic, but mood stabilizers.. the right ones? Really did the trick more so than anti-ds.. but then I am still on a mix of 'em. But yeah, SSRI's are a no-no for me, same as for quite a few Bipolar peeps, as it sent me really high, as in nearly hospitalization high. Luckily they figured that one out eventually.
If someone hasn't already mentioned her to you, Kay Redfield Jamison's written a few books about bipolar you may find interesting. I wouldn't label her stuff as 'self help', and I didn't find her patronising like a lot of writers are on the subject. She's a PhD and a psychologist who herself has bipolar.
Also, Crazy Meds ( http://www.crazymeds.us/ ) is a great site for reading up on various med options, and not sugar coating the pros and cons but telling it how it is with 'em. And it's not run by some evil pharm company to lure you to the dark side, which a lot of sites are.
You've probably seen these links and stuff before, so apologies if it comes across as patronising, it's not meant that way. And as much as the thoughts of a passing acquiantance mean on t'interwebs, I'm thinking about you.
If you want to rattle my braincells about this shit sometime, if it helps any, my e-mail is : sister_carrion(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk
And yeah.. apologies for the ramble.. it kinda' got away from me.