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Bipolar disorder, bpd, c-ptsd, depression, mania, whatever. Hodgepodge of general mental illness stuff.

It seems I only post when life gets overwhelming. C’est la vie. It’s cathartic for me and I don’t guess anyone has to read it. *grin*

I just found out a friend has cancer. I mean, just now found out.  Just one more thing in the overload bukkit. I mean… Since I last posted I’ve had to deal with my business very nearly tanking, re-injuring my bad knee to the tune of grand pain accompaniment, switching from generic to brand (!!!) Lamictal, various crap keeping me from sleeping (reasonable stuff, but insomnia still sucks), my co-worker’s PC blowing up with sparks and all so that a lot of business data was lost, IBS flare-ups, my brother suddenly becoming very ill, acquiring a new counselor, had a good friend with bipolar disorder become psychotic and have to be hospitalized.  That’s just the last 13 days. And in the days before that I found out my father has cancer, dealt with weeks of nausea and diarrhea from starting metformin, dealt with rats around the house, had my intercostal neuritis flare up again, developed Piriformis syndrome, had insomnia for a week due to those last two things, had a debt collector come after me over something that was taken care of and had to bend over backwards to prove it, had a bout of hypomania, had my alcoholic uncle move in then move back out, found out that the county may not be able to get me my crazy meds, had severe foot cramps that wouldn’t let me sleep for several days, dealt with dizziness for days caused by starting lisinopril. Since July 1 this stressful stuff has happened. And that’s just the stuff that’s significant enough to bother mentioning. My life is absurd, I sometimes think.

I keep remembering my old therapist at first telling me, “Things happen in everyone’s life. We just have to deal with them.”  About 6 months later she gave in and agreed that more shit seems to happen in my life than most. I still have to deal with it.

You know what?  Bipolar disorder and PTSD hasn’t made me any less of a tough cookie. That I always survive this never-ending crap on top of dealing with mental illness is kind of amazing.  So you see, it is possible to deal with mental illness and a bunch of crap. It’s not always pleasant. Often not at all. But it’s possible.

To the good side, I’m still alive, so is my brother, my knee is healing, my business hasn’t quite died, I’m past all the side effects from all those new meds, and on Friday I will have made it to 15 years clean and sober. Assuming I don’t fall off the wagon by then. Seems unlikely since the last 40 days — and the last couple of years for that matter —  hadn’t tipped me off the wagon. I’ll get taken out for sushi to celebrate. Wahoo!


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When I started blogging about dealing with bipolar disorder, I was actually sort of ecstatic that we’d finally found the key to helping me. After all, I’d been dealing with the symptoms of manic depression with no help whatsoever  for about 30 years at that point. I was basically of the mind that it was a pain in the butt to deal with, but I’d find a way to make it ok. I felt that if I could just survive the side effects and deal with lifestyle changes it would all be ok.

That changed.  It took a year or two, but that perspective is gone now. The honeymoon ended. That’s not to say all is hopeless gloom and doom. But I did realize that no matter what  lifestyle changes I made and no matter what meds I took, it’s not going to “all be ok.”  I got realistic.

I realize now that
… I’m probably always going to be at risk from stress, that I’m likely to have significant mood swings and symptoms when stressed.
… I can’t get rid of stress. I can work to lessen it and ameliorate it, but at times life will throw things at me that would be  just plain stressful for anyone.
… The meds are not magic pills and won’t make bipolar disorder lie down and die. I always said they weren’t magic and they could help, but I secretly believed they would fix things. Now I believe what I said. 
… If I take high enough doses of meds to pretty much completely get rid of  mood swings and symptoms, I will have side effects that are hard to live with, but if I take less then I’m more susceptible to stress and whatnot. It’s a real Catch22.
… I can continue my lifestyle management from here on out or suffer the consequences.  I do not prefer consequences. I’d sure like to be able to stay up late again, though.

Sometimes I do get down about these realities. Mostly, though, seeing reality reinforces that I get to choose how to deal with this bipolar stuff. I do have the option of going wacko with symptoms. And I have the option of taking care of myself — which does mean doing some things I don’t prefer — and I’ll feel generally ok more of the time.  I choose the latter, over and over again. But somehow it helps me to know I have a choice.


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… hair loss is another side effect of the lamotrigine for me.  Not like I’m going bald. But I’m definitely finding a lot of hair in the drain after I shower. Eh well. I can live with that.

I’m trying to sort out what’s going on with my head so maybe I can feel a better. What a tangled web, though. It seems just impossible to deal with.  I know my bipolar stuff was out of sorts for a long while there, trying to get up to a useful dose of lamotrigine without having a ton of side effects. Up down up down.

Seemed to get that on the way to working well enough and all hell let lose in my life. Death. Serious work problems. More serious work problems. Family problems. Money problems. Rise up ole PTSD and start stomping around.

Up… down down down down down

The depression is going to kill me one of these days. When it’s around I just wish it would. I’d love to evaporate then. Seems I keep getting over it, though.

Now I’m just in the middle more or less struggling to not be cast about by everything that blows a little wind my way. I’m not doing so well with that, I sometimes think. Other times I think I’m doing great.

Nothing consistent.  I’m tired of that.


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I think February was the poster child for depression and anxiety. Sheesh.  I survived it, though. I figure that’s good. And I’m finally up to enough lamotrigine (generic lamictal) that it’s axed the mania stuff.  Delightful! Oh wait, it’s also clobbered my creative drive. Dayum. This is not so hot for an artist.

Delightful Case Manager pointed out today that there’s always a trade off between good and side effects of meds. Errr. Yeah, I knew that. I mean… Trileptal worked well for me, but caused a nuclear explosion in my stomach over time. Abilify worked well… but gave me gut spasms that crippled me. Zyprexa makes me gain an average of at least 3 lbs a week… for at least 10+ weeks. Topamax made me unable to speak almost. Yadda yadda. Merely not being able to do my work well is  a peesacake, right?

I’m sure if this higher dose of wellbutrin kicks in it won’t seem so bad.  LOL


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My mood is spastic. A day or two of morbid depression. A day or two of hypomania escalating up. Anxiety hangs out with both, though.  The anxiety is worse when I’m depressed, but it’s always there.  Free-floating, not reality based anxiety.

And the worst part is the intrusive thoughts that anxiety drags with it.  An example… I saw in my minds eye that one of the cats would jump into the oven when it was opened to get the holiday turkey out, and he’d knock hot gravy everywhere and get it in his eye and put his eye out with it.  I can’t stop these thoughts. They just sneak up on me while I’m going about trying to live.

I hate the intrusive thoughts the most.  I’m used to low to moderate anxiety. I don’t like it, but I’m accustomed to it. But these intrusive anxious thoughts are not usual for me the last couple years. This is like the old crap when I had to be hospitalized in 07.  I sure hope the lamotrigine kicks in soon and this goes away.


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Migrainechow.com has some sort of weirdness going on. I can’t edit posts. I can put in something, but once I’ve saved a draft or published it, I can’t edit it. My webhost told me it’s my plugins or my theme. So I got rid of all that. I mean deleted off the  server rid of.  Didn’t work. I didn’t think it would, it made no sense at all that it would since the problem started out of the blue, but you can’t tell tech support people anything. (I should know, I was one once upon a time.)

Aside from that, this rapid cycling sucks. It comes at me out of the blue with depression or mania in hand and knocks me around. I’m vastly tired of it.  I hope the lamotrigine starts working soon. Or a miracle. I’d settle for one of those.

Update: Is this thing working now? If so, you can see this update. If not, I’m busy screaming.


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I went to see my new therapist today.

I’m a bit on the hypomanic side from being undermedicated while titrating up on lamotrigine.

Babble babble.

It turns out though, that she’s quit to take a new job elsewhere. So I won’t be seeing her again. aaaaaaaaaaagh! LOL In fact, I have no therapist or case manager right now because the county hasn’t sorted it. I may not get either one til next year sometime or other. Whenever they get around to it.  Or it could be next week. I may never get a therapist, only a case manager. No one has a clue.

This is just absurd. What timing! My life is just a series of messiness. LOL

Do NOT let the psychiatrist quit too!!!


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