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hunter

(38,311 posts)
Sun Jan 8, 2012, 05:17 PM Jan 2012

I'm changing my meds again... sigh.

It's never fun, but the paranoia has been creeping back, voices wake me up in the night, and my libido is gone.

Funny thing about libido is you don't miss it. But intellectually you know you ought to have it... especially if you used to have it and your wife's got one.

Wish me luck.

Life. What an adventure...

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I'm changing my meds again... sigh. (Original Post) hunter Jan 2012 OP
Good luck! I hope the next one is the right one! *crosses fingers* GreenPartyVoter Jan 2012 #1
Thank you! hunter Jan 2012 #3
best of luck mopinko Jan 2012 #2
My untamed self is pretty harmless. hunter Jan 2012 #4
I've changed mine too. Neoma Jan 2012 #5
Do you have some sort of social network to catch you? hunter Jan 2012 #8
It's mainly just my husband. Neoma Jan 2012 #9
I hope the switch is going okay, hunter. EFerrari Jan 2012 #6
Got the invisible electricity coming out of my fingers and teeth today... hunter Jan 2012 #7

hunter

(38,311 posts)
4. My untamed self is pretty harmless.
Sun Jan 8, 2012, 08:13 PM
Jan 2012

Not suicidal, not reckless with money, not a danger to myself or others.

But there is always falderal...

I seem to be a bit manic at the moment but this ain't the Fresno or the Riverside or the Santa Barbara of my young adulthood... I'm not looking down at my bleeding bare feet on the pavement at two o'clock in the morning with a cop asking me who I am and what I'm doing there.

Thanks!

Neoma

(10,039 posts)
5. I've changed mine too.
Mon Jan 9, 2012, 03:53 AM
Jan 2012

I think I'm worse... Bipolar II with lots of hypomania to boot. No real impulse control but enough holding myself from doing anything too stupid or dangerous so far. Though I have been dangerous and stupid before, so I'm worried.

hunter

(38,311 posts)
8. Do you have some sort of social network to catch you?
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 04:52 PM
Jan 2012

Speaking from my own experiences, "dangerous and stupid" phases best not done alone...

Neoma

(10,039 posts)
9. It's mainly just my husband.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 05:03 PM
Jan 2012

The friends I had were from psychward, and well... You know how well that can work out. Drunken telephone calls and using me for a baby sitter instead of a friend, or they end up in a nursing home.

I'm horrible at making real friends, and NAMI friends can be just as bad as psychward friends. (Mainly because they have their own shit to deal with.) I kind of gave up on finding these rare creatures called friends. Send out my phone number how many times I like, only 1 out of 20 call back twice.

hunter

(38,311 posts)
7. Got the invisible electricity coming out of my fingers and teeth today...
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 04:48 PM
Jan 2012

... a few minor brain zaps, the benign fasciculation twitching in my diaphragm and abdomen. Some sweating.

And I may be a little manic.

Intellectually I'm good, I can think myself past the anxiety, and not nearly so bad as the time I quit Effexor cold-turkey... heh.

I'm my own favorite experimental subject.

Thanks.

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