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Offline tellingstories

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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #10 on: May 02, 2012, 02:34:24 PM »
I am magnificent, thankyou for asking. No sarcasm intended.
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« Reply #11 on: May 02, 2012, 07:04:13 PM »
hay how r u today
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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #12 on: May 02, 2012, 09:38:53 PM »
Yup, very odd. I can only assume that my psych just sees me as one big walking ball of symptoms. ::)



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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2012, 07:07:00 AM »
I didn't sleep very well even though I took Zopiclone. I spent £300 yesterday in ninety minutes, including getting a really ugly tattoo that'll be with me for life.

My mother is worried about me. She's telling me about bad stuff I've been doing in the last few weeks. Not illegal or immoral, just selfish and argumentative. Stuff I have no recollection of and I don't understand why because I am not psychotic. I know everyone says that, but I'm not, never have been. I feel like she's ashamed of me, and I am ashamed of myself.
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A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children and islands
weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.
She thinks she can warn the stars.

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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2012, 08:27:27 AM »
hay dont be ashamed of your self be happy
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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #15 on: May 03, 2012, 02:35:34 PM »
Thankyou Greenday for your support. How old are you by the way?
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As if cycles and children and islands
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and vegetables were never enough.
She thinks she can warn the stars.

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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #16 on: May 03, 2012, 03:05:49 PM »
quetiapine completely knocked me out. i was on the maximum dose, i couldn't think straight, i would stop talking in the middle of sentences, i was barely coherent, i couldn't read which i hated because i love books. it turned me into a zombie and a completely different person, sounds a bit like what you're experiencing. oh, and it had no effect on the mania.

as for mood stabilisers i've tried lithium and valproate, neither of them gave me side effects (that i noticed).

just after xmas i was admitted to hospital after an od, i was immediately taken off quetiapine and despite horrendous withdrawal for the first two weeks i felt a noticeable difference immediately. i am less tired, i can concentrate, i don't feel like my head is made of cotton wool. i cannot believe how i put up with those side effects for 18 months. Are you noticing any positive effects of the quetiapine/carbamazapine? if not i'd say definitely worth thinking about asking if you can try other meds

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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #17 on: May 03, 2012, 06:40:03 PM »
I've been on quetiapine for about three years. I don't know where I'd be without it. It stabilised my sleep, calmed me down, made me less impulsive, stabilised my moods... to an extent. Hence the carbamazepine. It's really too early to tell if that's helping, I'm not on the full dose yet. I have to have bloods and as I understand it the therapeutic dose is determined by the levels in my blood, because everyone's body metabolises it differently (or something- I'm told it's the same process as with lithium, I'd be interested if anyone could clarify)

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A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children and islands
weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.
She thinks she can warn the stars.

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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #18 on: May 03, 2012, 06:45:27 PM »
hay tellingstoriyes im 16 and becoming 17 this june i feel sad and hate my life
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Re: Mood stabilisers and Antipsychotics eating my words?
« Reply #19 on: May 03, 2012, 06:56:04 PM »
Aww bless. You're very young, why do you hate your life?
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A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children and islands
weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.
She thinks she can warn the stars.
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