OP seems kinda manic in the comments
Anon remembers
Submitted 2 weeks ago by alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m withdrawing from THC (which makes me hypomanic) and I drink way too much coffee (which makes me hypomanic). So I’m not manic, but I am hypomanic X 2, which is close.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My buddy had a serious manic episode years ago; it was really scary and got him into some legal trouble. Along with some of his friends and family, I came down to attempt him to convince him to enter treatment. It took HOURS, and just as we were losing hope of getting through to him, a switch flipped in his head and he said “alright let’s do this!” And we got him to an inpatient treatment center.
They had him on lithium for a while. I hated it (internally, I didn’t want to fuck up his treatment) because he was so robotic and lethargic whenever we chatted. He told me how he didn’t like how it was making him feel at all. It felt like he went from one extreme to the other. That said, he was honest with his doctors and as he continued to do well, they adjusted his meds. It’s been years now. He’s back to the guy I remember from college. He’s stayed out of trouble, met and married a great women, and found a career.
Most people don’t become doctors for malicious reasons. Sure some do it for status or money, but they’re still a profession centered around helping people. They take an oath. I’d encourage you to find a doctor you can trust and follow their guidance and treatment. My friend’s doctors gave him his life back when he was on a path to destruction.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He’s back to the guy I remember from college
Me too. I’m the guy I remember from college as well. I didn’t remember that guy until about six weeks ago when I went cold turkey on all the bipolar meds I’d been on since 2009.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My concern with that is you may be experiencing the high of a manic episode. I’m no doctor, but when my buddy was manic it ultimately led him to doing some self-destructive things. He got himself fired from a job by calling his boss some horrible things in front of the entire staff, he’d burn his money on nonsensical get rich quick schemes, and ultimately he got nabbed for driving intoxicated and attempting to flee from the scene.
I think he’d be in a worse spot if he just told the doctors what he thought they wanted to hear rather than advocating for himself and working with them to get himself to a point where he’s on meds to guard him from burning himself out on a manic tear while also not so heavily medicated he’s a zombie. It can be done! Good luck, stranger
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah except each acute episode is typically compounded and they’ll steadily get less and less of themselves back after each one. More people really need to compare “I feel robotic” to the three patients we’ve had over a year who need nursing home level of hygiene care because they’re constantly covered in their own bodily fluids but who are too confused to safely tolerate anyone touching them without being heavily medicated.
One of them will fall asleep with a hoard of papers they stole from other patients in the dayroom, then be too confused to get out of bed to go to the bathroom. So they just soak the entire bed and pile of papers in urine then scream at you when you try to get them out of bed or take away the urine soaked papers. The skin of their genitals will go through stages of red and peeling until we can keep them medicated enough for a few days to let us apply barrier cream and get it healed, but we can’t keep them that medicated all the time because they’d fall and crack their head open. If we try to clean them without medication they scream hit and Terry to wrestle with you while soaked in bodily fluids.
More people need to know that that’s their future if they keep letting manic and psychotic episodes burn their brain out like an overclocked CPU.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because mild but overmedicated cases are completely unheard of?
Oh wait, no, they’re just not documented, unlike when inpatients misbehave.
People who are not medicated enough are very easy to spot. People who are overmedicated are not, because they don’t make a fuzz.
What are your feelings on lobotomy?
ulterno@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
OOP can now confidently check the “I’m not a robot” checkbox.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
bout fuckin time tbh
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I understand that drugs do wonders for many neurodivergent people.
But it didn’t for me and stories like this is why i am really worried about the sentiment in general.
You’re born neurodivergent, in a neurotypical world. Destined to feel different, to be perceived different. To have the norm of how humans are and behave not fit who you are.
But as a child and teen. What do you known about who you are? How humans are supposed to behave. You still have to learn it all.
So during this time of trying to understand yourself, the world, exploring your own personality. They recommend drugs that inhibit parts of who you are.
And so you may mature and grow up, never knowing who you really are to begin with.
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Alright but my neurodivergence makes the sun too bright, makes my clothes too itchy, and makes food taste too loud, and if they tell me they have a pill that can make that a little easier, then I’ll take it.
It’s not just a “neurotypical world”, I am disabled and I need a ramp to access places.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Sadly enough the pills rarely help with that, its usually made so you can “peform” like everyone else.
I definitely understand your sentiment, I struggle with many of the same thing.
The thing with perspective is, Imagine a world where:
Humans evolved to be more active during evening, night and morning because midday is too bright for everyone.
Where all clothes where made from no itch materials because everyone hates the itchy ones and therefor wont produce clothes with it.
The meal recipe tell you to add x because otherwise it tastes “too loud” and language evolved for people to have a mutual known understanding of what is meant with that.
Etc
In this world we would not be disabled, you would not need a ramp.
But this world is not any different from the one we live in now. The only difference is people like us being the norm therefore human culture adapts to those norms.
My favoriete example is things like a keyboard, it’s so obviously made for 2 hands. Not having 2 hands is a disability in context of a keyboard but we can just build a different keyboard. The keyboard is not the world. That we can build any kind of keyboard is the world.
This is what i mean with “neurotypical world” normal people don’t understand there are others that need things to be different so they never are.
Anyway if you are an adult and medication helps you i am not going to object, you are your own expert a you know what is best for you.
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Your doctor shit my pants
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sounds like something he’d do tbh.
If I’m being perfectly honest, though, I really liked seeing my old doctor, I didn’t sour on him until recently when I got off the wrong medication and all the memories came back
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Tbh I bet you suck at stealing shopping carts
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’ve never been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but we have a very healthy family history.
It’s obviously a great feeling, but “There are things that I am passionate about” can be the worrying part, can tend to end up a little too passionate.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The bipolar meds made me forget I was interested in language. I was a linguistics major. I majored in linguistics because I’ve had a lifelong fascination with langauge.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen stuff like that happen, it’s rough.
There’s a very fine line between “I don’t care about anything” and “I care about this thing so much that I’m yelling on the street casually waving around this revolver”. That second part is unfortunately sourced from personal experience when someone I cared about was not on their meds. The worst part is how quickly the mood can shift.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I know an undiagnosed bipolar guy. The highs are so high, and he’s such a wonderful person. The lows are so low, and come on so fast, and last too long, and he’s a miserable person to be around. And just as you think maybe the growing distance should be made larger and permanent, he’s on a high again and it’s really easy to forget the low period.
I can see how meds are tough to get right.
protist@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
For many people, the highs are the problem. Some people spend all their money, some people let complete strangers move in, and some people think God has told them they can fly and jump off a building. Mania, man.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep. I had a friend who, when she would get the “up” she’d engage in very risky sex with whoever was around. Then when she’d come down she’d hate herself for it and have to deal with the fallout.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sex positive. Do what you want with who you want. I just see how much it hurt her to constantly be getting std tests and spending all that money on plan b and fucking up her cycle.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah for sure. This guy would get so excited about things and ended up with some expensive stuff …
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I have an ex that was like that. It took me way too long to end that relationship, and kind of fucked me up for future ones because when things were good with her they were REALLY good and I end up comparing more recent partners to that, which isn’t fair but I can’t figure out how to not do it and everyone since then has felt so dull by comparison.
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My last manic episode didn’t have any euphoria, the only emotions I felt at all were the physical sensations I got from being high. One of several reasons why I think I’m not actually bipolar, I’m just an autistic guy who loves drugs
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Definitely! Here’s what I’ve learned. (by the way, this is JUST for me. I’m well aware that what doesn’t work for me may work for others)
Seroquel, depakote, litihum, haldol, and lamictal are all poison.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
what
how is this relevant
alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve also had numerous fantasies of poisoning my friends and family with my bipolar meds. Sadly, there are these things called “laws”, so I’ve never even seriously considered doing it.