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Written by cateblack 6. Mar 2008 10:06 PM

Well last Tuesday my psychiatrist changed my medication... no more Risperdal now I am taking Stelazone... it is making me feel so nauseated and it is only the first day... I also am not sleeping... 7 hours in the past 48 hours.. i have an elevated mood... and I am anxious about this weekend... my family are going to find out about my mental illness of Borderline ... they only know about the depression... and they know I have the Public Trust of Qld manage my money but they do not know why... i have kept it hidden from them... i wanted to be declared incompetent...but that is not entirely true... though i do have times of confusion and impaired cognitive function... sometimes I can barely manage the basic daily functions... but not all the time... i am not sure i know what to do... people say write a list of pros and cons... I feel so overwhelmed... I have been doing a writing course... and I have written a couple of stories... facilitator thought my work was good... but then she thinks all the students write well... she is sweet and she is good... so I do think she makes some very good points... I would like to think I could write... and make a living from it... but that is a dream that i do not have the coursge to dream...

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Comments from the community:

Cate

Give the stelazone a chance to work and if you are still like this next week, go back to the psychiatrist if you can get in.

Can fully understand your concern about telling your family about your illness. Hope they react better to you than mine do to my illnesses/stints in hospital.

Perhaps it is time to think about taking back control of your money - unless you have bipolar because you can control your spending because you are not totally incompetent - just a thought.

Go Cate!!!

Studying1

Written by studying1, 7. Mar 2008 06:39 PM

Sending you hugs and praying that the new meds work for you, and you feel much better soon.
Take care depnet friend,
Pat xx

Written by Deleted_User, 7. Mar 2008 07:33 PM