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.
Tag Archives: mood disorder
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.
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.
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