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.
Tag Archives: mental health
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.
Personal Update – Lithium Toxicity
The latest personal update is on a recent medication change due to lithium toxicity–it covers my side effects and how the medication change has affected them.
Personal Update – Antipsychotic Change
My PCP suspects I may have developed sleep apnea at some point, and this has caused my psychiatrist to change up my antipsychotic, which acts somewhat as a sedative for me. What will happen next is a mystery…
Episode 46 – Shades of Sorrow
Depression, either as a symptom or as the disorder itself, can manifest in different ways. Here, I talk a bit about my three main types I’ve felt–anger as an adolescent; flat depression and mood cycling depression as they alternate in my later years.
Personal Update – The End
Hopefully the last personal update on this latest mood cycling+depression episode I’ve had over the last month. Kind of a thought ramble, really. We discuss a couple aspects of BPD and how it factors into this, then of course how the depressive episode has.
Personal Update – Imposter Syndrome
A description of imposter syndrome and its place in my life as a chronically mentally ill person who has lost everything, repeatedly, to the illnesses.
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