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To: Winstons Julia

Psychosis can occur as part of bipolar illness. However, I don’t know the specifics of this case.


15 posted on 03/06/2010 7:32:59 PM PST by hellbender
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I have bipolar disorder.

Might as well out myself. I am on a medication called Seroquel, which works,

My bipolar mania never was violent, just very productive. My bipolar depression (which was misdiagnosed at first) docs put me on anti-mania meds...caused me to throw into a depression and I took ALL of the anti-depressant meds plus a giant bottle of Tylenol PM. I did this in 2005.

I miraculously survived the overdose (I wasn’t a weenie...I took it and woke up two days later)...and THEN called an ambulance....

What I mean to say is...I was serious. I didn’t want attention...when I took those drugs...I thought they would kill me.

They didn’t.

And at the time I took them I had been misdiagnosed.

Now that I am properly diagnosed...NOT THAT I LIKE IT...but I’m properly diagnosed...

I take the medication prescribed and I live day to day....

I write. In another place.

I understand people who live with brains that aren’t predictable. They are my people.


26 posted on 03/06/2010 8:39:53 PM PST by Winstons Julia (The liberal mantra: Never enough.)
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