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60 years with Bipolar Disorder II. Mental illness is misunderstood by most people.

This account is so I can discuss it openly.

Male, war vet, professional.

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@howcoryseesit @syskusa If you have bipolar (manic/depressive) you need mood stabilizers. Not random psychedelics, but stuff that keeps you sane.

The attack on prescription drugs is dangerous. Sure, some are overprescribed. For a few, psychedelics may help (my VA clinic does ketamine).

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@BasedPsychMD This is a dishonest argument. The implication is that we have no good data on post marketing usage. In fact, we have plenty. RCTs are important but are not the only good source of information.

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@tylerblack32 As a patient, I find it attractive. But as very old patient, I worry about kidney damage, including as a result of emergency scans with contrast agents that create an add-on kidney burden.

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@DrAnnieHickox @HunterBiden Glad you're sticking around

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@GrantS0227 And if the root cause is inherited brain dysfunction? BD is highly genetic.

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@lifewocd I have been fortunate to have lots of time with my mental illness under control, along with bad time when it is not.

I hope you are able to be fortunate in that regard.

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@lifewocd I feel like my last 6 months have been mostly lost time, for that reason. TBF I also have had a lot of medical issues - but without BD flareups I take those in stride.

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@MundlerStudents @DrAnnieHickox @JohnJCrace @guardian One of the ingredients is activating of some of those. I chose my Trelegy equivalent (VA wouldn't give me Trelegy) to have the least activating (vilanterol) LABA bronchodilator.

My issue was being able to get to sleep.

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@DanielleGansky They are safer because their purity and dose is guaranteed; they have been through clinical trials; they are FDA approved.

That they and street drugs are both psychoactive is pretty darned irrelevant.

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@CaptVanGarrett @ShamashAran Batteries are way too expensive for utility scale. For home use, might as well... you've already way overpaid for installation, solar panels and inverters.

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@CMerandi My VA psych tried to force me off my benzo. I'm also facing cancer. It think it is a result of VA pressure that derives from the opioid panic.

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@DrAnnieHickox @LadyRimbaud @HannahBelc15771 wasted years of my time before I got a TCA and life got much better (this was in the pre-SSRI era)

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I am so tired of reading, over and over again, about SSRI/SNRI withdrawal. Give it a rest, please!

Oh, and if you think psychiatry is evil, or not real because of lack of biomarkers, go peddle that nonsense elsewhere.

Please.

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@Nickisbackbaby Because the other half hasn't yet realized it - otherwise it would be far more than one half.

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@BlackshepSusan This is why science does not rely on "common sense."

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@Kronykal Where? As the population increases, the costs will rise in the most desirable locations.

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@cchruk Psychiatry relieves suffering, cure or not. Do you demand that diabetes drugs have to cure people?

It is a propaganda trick to attack psychiatry because many people cannot be cured - but that is the nature of many illnesses, mental and physical.

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@weirdoffmain @ChucKV3Glenn @Arkypatriot Yes, so?

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@BrandonJourney2 I have benefited greatly from the "neurotoxic" drugs as have many others. Bipolar disease rarely responds to lifestyle or diet modifications, except on the margin.

Without those meds, I would not have been able to have a successful life.

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@Limessa_67 I did not have informed consent. Fortunately, I've been ok.