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If you had $1 for every time you were told...

to "snap out of it," you would be a wealthy woman, between the dollars themselves and the interest which would build up on that money. Thanks for dropping by.

posted by kidnykid on November 13, 2006 at 6:49 AM | link to this | reply

depression is horrible

i had to take Luvox for years - then the panic attacks started - here comes Xanax.  Went off for a few years - then back on.  Now I just take a valium each morning to take the edge off - and Effexor for anxiety.  OCD left permanently though - can't quite figure out why.  The hardest part if the people around you that don't understand what is happening to you - and you don't either.  If I had a dollar for every "snap out of it" I heard....

posted by ladychardonnay on November 13, 2006 at 6:13 AM | link to this | reply

I have OCD which is bad enough. I hated taking pills so much that I live

without them right now.  I thoroughly admire Howard Hughes who lived an incredible life until the poor bastard succumbed to OCD.  I hope I survive better than he did, but right now I have a great cirlce of friends with whom I can talk.  I hope you can deal with your bipolar disorder.  God bless you.

posted by SlyCy on November 13, 2006 at 6:06 AM | link to this | reply

I'd be interested in finding out if you take medication for it. I know that I had to switch off Zoloft because I was going into hypomania as a side effect of the SSRIs; I'm currently on Wellbutrin and Zyprexa, and I find that my symptoms have abated considerably (with the sole exception of the depressive episode I experienced two years ago) now that I don't have those hormones of my monthly cycle to worry about. (I don't ever want to go on hormone replacement therapy; the estrogen my body produced naturally during my menstrual cycles acted as a natural depressant, and I don't want to be seriously depressed again.)

posted by kidnykid on October 20, 2006 at 7:37 AM | link to this | reply

interesting read

i was told i had bipolar disorder by a psychic. if i had not begun to write i would think differently. i look back to posts and identify them with extreme moods.

this was good to read, thanks

posted by appleworks7 on October 20, 2006 at 6:25 AM | link to this | reply