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Close Bipolar Disorder
I have been diagnosed bi-polar since my early twenties and had and sometimes still have a problem with dealing withmy illness, but as I have grown older and more informed as a paitient, I am more able to manage my symptoms with meds, therapy, and DBT skills for my other recent diagnosis of bordeline personality disorder. I am new to chatrooms and am looking to find like mind people who have something positive to share with each to share with each other.
Treatments
- Abilify Somewhat Helpful
- I found it to mentally activating.
- Ativan Working / Worked
- When I used in the past, it quelled the spurts of high anxiety I was having
- Depakote Working / Worked
- I have great results with this med.
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Working / Worked
- I find that for me this type of therapy is sometimes more helpful than indvidual therapy.
- Geodon Somewhat Helpful
- I had a mixed result on this med.
- Group Therapy Working / Worked
- I find group therapy can be very helpful.
- Haldol Not Working
- when i ahd been on ti in the past, it made symptoms worse instead of improving them.
- Lamictal Working / Worked
- This is a new med for me but it has worked controling my symptoms
- Lithium Not Working
- When I was first diagnosed, I was on this med and had horrible results withit.
- Risperdal Not Working
- i tried it but had awful side effects from it.
- Seroquel Not Working
- I had been prescribed this me in conjuction withZyprexa with horrible side effects.
- Tegretol Working / Worked
- I have fantastic results with this med and have used it for many, many years with positve results.
- Topamax Not Working
- I have found that unless taken in larger doses that it has been a very ineffective drug for me.
- Wellbutrin Not Working
- the drug made more manic.
- Zyprexa Working / Worked
- I don't like the weight gain, but it definitely helps me with managing symptoms.
- Stelazine Working / Worked
- Despite its negative long and short term side effects, it was a sucessful drug for me in the years I took it.
- Walking Working / Worked
- I ahve vey good results from making time to walk and/or exercise; it helps not only physically, but emotionally and mentally.
Close Personality Disorders
I have been recently as just this year in fact with borderline personlity disorder as well as bi-plar, PtSD, and my bi=polar has and have bouts in its extereme and acute mania fphyscotic features with it, too. i am very new to the DS communtities and look for this to be apostive environment of support and a net work of support for me. I have a daughter and am divorced from her Dad. I live with boyfriend of almost a year now. I feel i can benefit from this community.
Treatments
- Talking Working / Worked
- i go to DBT and that has really helped with the erractic ups and downs as well as the over whelming and strong emotions I go thru over the course of ady or week.
- Meditation Working / Worked
- I have received tremendous comfort in all of these mehtods of "getting outside of my head" without necessarily using lots of meds or talking or venting. I make it a part of my daily regiment like I would my DBt skills, ind therapy, my meds, and my med checks with my prescriber. It works on the days I son't feel good or on the days I am on top fo the World; i find it centers me and it soothes me.
Open Smoking Addiction & Recovery
I am new to this community and did not know of its existence until My sister emailed the info for this site. I am 39 years old and have smoking since I was 15 Years old with little spurts of quitiing such as ayear and 4 monts before I headed off to college. I am looking forward to truly quiting and getting rid of this horrible addiction for good with the help of family, friends and supprts from New PCP, medication( Chantix), and group support system that i Have and currently am involved in.
Treatments
- Chantix Too Soon to Tell
- Have a new PCP who will be more that glad to prescribe it for me but need to be cleared by another prescriber to take it.
- Cold Turkey Not Working
- Have tried many times..only to return to the smoking
- Hard Candy Not Working
- Have tired with limited sucess
- Meditation Working / Worked
- It helps during the stressful times when cravings are real bad and when I think I can't get thru them
- Nicotine Gum Not Working
- Had tried when hospitalized last year but went right back to smoking after going home
- Nicotine Patch Somewhat Helpful
- Have good results, but have had real bad side effects with at times.
- Nicotrol Inhaler Not Working
- Tried a sample from dr.'s office but made me feel like wanting to go back to smoking than to really quit
- Smoking Cessation Class Considering
- The closeset tome are in Plymouth or on the Cape and I have no trans portation yet so it makes it very hard to go.
- Support Groups Considering
- Hav info to go on SA(Smoker's Anonymous or na- Nicotene Anynomous?) on-line and a biweekly meeting on the phone, but I need to be stopped I believe to use this resource...
- Wellbutrin Not Working
- Didi Not work for me at all and made my other pre-exising illness worse so I had to didcontinue treatment in amatter of days.
- Willpower Not Working
- Never worked for long, despite best intentions and extera supports from Family and friends as wellas Dr.'s and other Health professionals.
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