mood disorder – Page 2 – Rory's Write Place

Personal Update – Uncertain Future

I switched up antidepressants, started cycling, and am silently allowing society to gaslight me into thinking I’m somehow faking it all.

Personal Update – Relapse… Again

My schizoaffective disorder has relapsed yet again and sent me in a bit of a downward spiral. Here are some of the ways it’s affected me in the last two weeks.

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 – 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.

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.