Posted by baseball55 on May 15, 2014, at 19:24:21
In reply to Re: maybe ill post here..., posted by Lamdage22 on May 15, 2014, at 2:01:05
> Meds to make you happy, i dont think so, while i do appreciate antipsychotics.. i dont think there is any pill for happyness. And i dont think there will be.
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> Life doesnt work that way.This is so true. I've heard of people calling psych meds "happy pills." But it was not my experience that they made me happy. Sometimes, when they worked, they made me able to function and not spend weeks in bed. Overall though, I found that really working on DBT and regular therapy over time helped me the most. I learned to cope with depression, to not give in totally to despair.
Right now, I take 200mg of lamictal, which, for me, has no side effects. My p-doc wants me to stay on it at least through the summer while I go through this divorce. I stopped parnate last summer. I have a scrip for haldol and xanax which I take prn in high doses if I lose control and become suicidal. They knock me out for 12-24 hours and I generally wake up stable enough to work on DBT techniques.
I am a big advocate of therapy and social supports to deal with mental illness. After years of being repeatedly hospitalized and attempting or coming close to attempting suicide, I started intensive DBT and have not been in the hospital for 3 years.
I go to 12 step meetings, have made friends with whom I can talk about problems with depression. I see my p-doc once a month (I had done weekly therapy with him for six years) and my DBT therapist once a week or sometimes once every two weeks, depending on how my life is going.
I feel like I am never going to be an entirely well or happy person. But I can cope and sit through things and have moments of joy and happiness.
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