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Imagine for a second the psychiatric profession personified as Homer Simpson, with the trademark gesture of the hand smacking the forehead. The collective "Doh!" you hear is the seemingly overnight realization that depression rather than mania is the dominant partner in manic-depressive illness (bipolar disorder). ...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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I recently realized that my depression was not the same as regular depression. Depression, no big deal. Take your medicine and come back in 3 months. My depression? What works? Nothing yet, plus lithium and other anti-convulsants make the daily walk of life like slogging thru a pool of mud. Stress? Add stress to almost any situation and I go from brilliant to ignoramus instantly. Disorganized,distracted,forgetful. Sleep? Restful, regular sleep is not to be found. Unemployed for a year now, how am I to find and keep a job. Go to bed at 10 P.M. awake at 12:45 A.M. then up or up and down until dawn. I end up sleeping until 11 AM. Takes 2 hours to become alert. Seems every time I start working around the house I spend 2 hours deciding what is most important to accomplish, find tools and parts, then I am exhausted. But I keep working until nearly bedtime, never completing a project. Bedtime, dead tired. Sleep half hour to 2 hours. Then awake, not alert, unable to return to sleep until nearly dawn, AGAIN.
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