Posted by whiterabbit on July 10, 2003, at 16:34:40
In reply to Don't stroke out Gracie!!, posted by kara lynne on July 10, 2003, at 0:40:55
Kara I don't know what your dx is or what kind of problems you're having (besides The Schmuck) so couldn't guess whether Seroquel would help you...Anyway just wanted to remind you, a lot of times it takes more than one med to do the trick. I have bipolar but didn't do well on a mood stabalizer...Seroquel got rid of the high anxiety,
panic attacks, insomnia and manic cycling - thank you Lord. But I was still tired and depressed, tried Wellbutrin but it made me agitated & short-tempered...then Paxil came along and...TA-DAH!!
Cleaned up the depression...heavens if you've been reading my Seroquel posts on PB then you've heard all that maybe several times. What's happening to me now is, since I've been taking a stimulant for the ADD, the mania "breaks through"
easily when I'm upset or stressed. But it's MY FAULT because I know I shouldn't drink coffee all
day long & I do anyway - and not just that colored-water type coffee, I swill the hard stuff-
espresso with an extra shot of espresso please.
(According to my book it's quite common for some ADD types to abuse stimulants as a means to "fire
up" the underactive part of the ADD brain...and here all these years I just thought I liked coffee.) Drinking coffee all day long never affected me too much but it does now that I'm taking a stimulant. I have GOT to cut down...Why no, I don't know WHAT this has to do with your problem, I'm SUPPOSED to be focusing better instead of shooting off into wierd tangents like fireworks...dear girl you hang in there and I promise you, I PROMISE you that sometime in the not-too-distant-future, you will think of The Schmuck and you will say to yourself, HOW could I have EVER thought I was in love with that fat selfish jerk, WHAT was I thinking!
It will come, it will come. You're still going through the grieving process, & you have to feel those terrible emotions that you're feeling right now, but those feelings WILL NOT LAST. Be strong, don't let the guy play you, imagine that he's sitting with one of his guy-friends and you come up in their conversation - the friend says, you screwed up man, she's gone for good. Then The Schmuck pulls a $20 bill out of his wallet and says, how much do you wanna bet, I can get her to come over and work on my house, I'll say I need some Feng Shui advice and she'll be over just like that (snaps his fingers) - God she's so easy." You just keep that little scenario in mind and be strong, the guy is a JERK.
-Gracie
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