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Mental Health Support

Denninmi

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3. I don't get the noncompliance thing.

Reply to BeHereNow (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 3, 2012, 05:06 PM

Dec 2012

Why so many problems with psychotropic drugs? My therapist said it's because people feel better and think they no longer need it, plus a twist of the distrust of pharma and modern medicine.

I can see if it makes you feel bad, knocks you out, etc, but that would be the time to ask your doctor to change it, not go it alone.

I guess I am lucky so far with the lamictal. Seems to work well, 0 side effects of significance, and it's DIRT CHEAP at Costco, a big plus for me.

Anyway, I see it like my blood pressure meds, just something to take forever, no big deal.

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I need to correct a statement I made the other day about Klonopin. [View all] BeHereNow Dec 2012 OP

I like your last three paragraphs. Denninmi Dec 2012 #1

The combination of depression and anxiety is vicious and paralyzing for me. BeHereNow Dec 2012 #2

I don't get the noncompliance thing. Denninmi Dec 2012 #3

Your therapist is correct, PLUS BeHereNow Dec 2012 #4

Well, for me, the price of borderline mania was Denninmi Dec 2012 #5