Posted by theo on October 30, 2005, at 11:15:17
In reply to Re: going off all meds-again, posted by catmint on October 27, 2005, at 13:09:14
Good luck in your quest. I must say, I never felt better than when I first became sober and stopped everything. I was very involved in my recover and speaking about AA, bipolar, depression, etc.
I lost interest because thought I was "cured" and stopped my active life talking about the illness and witdrew to where I'm back in the trap of negative "why me" self pity.
My whole point is that when I was active in my recovery, medication was totally secondary. Now that I have been less involved I back in the mission of trying meds, and that as you know can be one let down after another. You know that feeling of high hopes with a new med thinking, this is the one, knowing realistically it probably won't be.
I do believe after being off meds for long periods that I can survive, but there are those tuff times where I can't get the motivation to be around people and comunicate about my problems and this is where I've had some success with meds "bridging" that gap.
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