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rocknrollslc
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04 Oct 2010, 4:38 am

before medication arrived...

i had grandiose mood problems (up to 6-8 months of mania or depression), and the slightest event would throw my mood to the wind sometimes upwards of a few times on a daily basis...eventually to return to either mania or depression.

........sometimes i "feel" like i wanna stop the meds and just let myself go. but then i remember how f***ing much depression sucks when i miss a dose, and i pop that lithium down the hatch.



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04 Oct 2010, 4:42 am

I know the feeling. Sometimes I look at my meds just before I take them and think, "the rest of my life? Just to be normal?" But I take them because I'm a Mum and others rely on me. And I'd sooner have the side effects than the illness.



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04 Oct 2010, 6:15 am

so whats your "illness", if you dont mind me asking?



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04 Oct 2010, 11:39 am

Diagnosed autistic when I was a kid, revised to asperger's now, plus schizo affective bipolar disorder.