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Re: Anyone Ever Feel More Confused At This Forum?

Posted by linkadge on November 16, 2008, at 6:46:15

In reply to Re: Anyone Ever Feel More Confused At This Forum?, posted by bulldog2 on November 15, 2008, at 9:27:50

Don't get me wrong, at the end of the day I really don't care which path you choose.

I just personally cannot follow my mother's path. I want a better future than she had.

She was diagnosed as bipolar at my age and did the whole conventional medication thing.

Sure her disorder responded to psychiatric medications during the acute crisis, but what happens after that?

Its been on and off this or that mood stabilizer, antipsychotic, antidepressant etc. She has gone steadily downhill and now a once highly intellegent university graduate has only a fraction of her faculties left.

She has a number of diseases (liver, kidney, diabeties) now as a result of the use of psychiatric medications and her moods are not well controlled.

I started on psychiatric meds before university and saw my grades plummit. I went from A's to D's because the mood stabilizers (especially antipsychotics) made it impossible to concentrate or study. I was hospitalized 3 times for a month or more, during which I was put on combinations of 5-10 medications and told I would never be able to come off them.

Anyhow, to make a long story short, I slowly came off the drugs half way through university and started to eat well, exercise, and started to experiment with alternatives.

My grades went up to A's in third and 4th year univesity (which is very rare for people who don't do well in 1st and 2nd year) and I graduated and am now on my way to be a math/physics teacher.

I guess what I am trying to say is that if I belived the doctors at the hospital, I would still be on 5-10 medications, I would have dropped out of university and my brain would still be sustaining who knows what form of neurological insults.

Thats my story, take from it what you will.

Don't get me wrong. My moods are not always %100, but I am certainly doing better overall off meds.


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