Rory's Write Place

Episode 49 – Learning PTSD (Part 1)

The diagnostic criteria for PTSD in the DSM-5 is long, so the list gets its own post in this first part.

Personal Update – Coming Down into Muggy Fog

After being put on Vraylar with an increase in my lithium dose and a reduction in Lamictal, I’m experiencing severe brain fog that affected my ability to navigate in an unfamiliar city.

Personal Update – Hypomanic

Here is a brief summary of my latest mental health episode–hypomania.

Episode 48 – Bipolar and BPD Coexisting

As an expansion to my Episode 26 – BPD vs. Bipolar, I add some statistics of bipolar and BPD along with some more detailed differences in the extreme emotions felt in each, exemplifying how they can coexist as diagnoses.

Personal Update – Hurt

Quick update on how I’m doing after my Seattle trip, which includes my reaction to unintentionally hurting someone.

Personal Update – Cause and Effect

Updates on my nephrologist visits, symptoms/side effects related (or not) to my lithium dose, vague details on my personal life since being cast aside by my ex-guy, and some fretting about a Seattle trip and my PTSD.

Personal Update – The Fallout

“My guy” is no longer my guy. The lithium reduction has had an effect on my side effect symptoms, and I express some self-deprecation and discouragement about myself as a person.