I was undecided whether to put this here or in "Treatment."
For about the past week I haven't been myself. I'm feeling low, and my appetite is gone. I'm hyperthyroid right now... my doctor's working on it... so not eating is the last thing my body needs! My episode in the fall scared me pretty badly! I haven't had a mania that bad in almost 15 years. I hid most of it from my doctor, because I was scared she'd admit me if I showed her how bad it really was. She probably would have. Even manic, I can usually pull myself together long enough to get through an appointment. I realize that maybe wasn't some of my best decision making! I'm still discovering things I did, and I've found that I have memory gaps. There are stretches of two or three days at a time sprinkled throughout October that are just... missing. This obviously made finals last semester harder than they needed to be, and of course final exams are hard anyway. I'm not proud of my GPA right now, but I manged to scrape through. I'm on pretty high doses of my meds, but I'm worried they're not holding me.
I was on lithium for... it has to be close to 10 years. I was numb that whole time. I would act appropriate for whatever situation I was in, but I didn't really feel anything. Lately I've been considering asking if I can go back on it. The bloodwork is a royal pain, of course, and I had an episode of toxicity so I don't know if she'll agree. Because of the bipolar I hate my emotions, and they scare me. Every time I let my guard down they bolt with me and bad things happen. I think I'd rather go back to not feeling. I have an appointment next week, and I think I'm going to talk to her about it.
For about the past week I haven't been myself. I'm feeling low, and my appetite is gone. I'm hyperthyroid right now... my doctor's working on it... so not eating is the last thing my body needs! My episode in the fall scared me pretty badly! I haven't had a mania that bad in almost 15 years. I hid most of it from my doctor, because I was scared she'd admit me if I showed her how bad it really was. She probably would have. Even manic, I can usually pull myself together long enough to get through an appointment. I realize that maybe wasn't some of my best decision making! I'm still discovering things I did, and I've found that I have memory gaps. There are stretches of two or three days at a time sprinkled throughout October that are just... missing. This obviously made finals last semester harder than they needed to be, and of course final exams are hard anyway. I'm not proud of my GPA right now, but I manged to scrape through. I'm on pretty high doses of my meds, but I'm worried they're not holding me.
I was on lithium for... it has to be close to 10 years. I was numb that whole time. I would act appropriate for whatever situation I was in, but I didn't really feel anything. Lately I've been considering asking if I can go back on it. The bloodwork is a royal pain, of course, and I had an episode of toxicity so I don't know if she'll agree. Because of the bipolar I hate my emotions, and they scare me. Every time I let my guard down they bolt with me and bad things happen. I think I'd rather go back to not feeling. I have an appointment next week, and I think I'm going to talk to her about it.
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