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Mental Health Support

BeHereNow

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4. Your therapist is correct, PLUS

Reply to Denninmi (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 3, 2012, 06:34 PM

Dec 2012

My daughter is 25 and all of her friends are medication experts, dont'cha know?

She acts normal when she is taking her meds, other than being a true artist, and all that implies.

But her friends decide to advise her that she is doing well and medications are BAD.

Of course that is what she wants to hear, because the allure of mania is like a drug
to many bipolar people.

They conveniently forget that the price of a manic episode is severe depression.

BHN

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I need to correct a statement I made the other day about Klonopin. [View all] BeHereNow Dec 2012 OP

I like your last three paragraphs. Denninmi Dec 2012 #1

The combination of depression and anxiety is vicious and paralyzing for me. BeHereNow Dec 2012 #2

I don't get the noncompliance thing. Denninmi Dec 2012 #3

Your therapist is correct, PLUS BeHereNow Dec 2012 #4

Well, for me, the price of borderline mania was Denninmi Dec 2012 #5