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Hi Tamela,

Welcome and hopefully, someone can help you to understand that being Bi-Polar isn’t a one-symptom problem that can be “cured” with one medication. It can take years to get your meds right but it can also be that you are one of the people that meds don’t help. BUT, you must try to get a handle on it otherwise, you can defeat yourself, which I think that you already know.

One of the great things that we do is manipulate people to get what we think we need. Most of the time, it isn’t what we need at all. That’s because we go from very low to very high in a nano-second! I call my highs & lows manic episodes and I always know (now) when I am in one.

I couldn’t take the meds but I did learn how to control myself. I still have problems but with some “new” thinking, I usually can control my thinking and help myself through it. I do have times that I have to take meds but it is not all the time for me. I know people that have to take them all the time and do well on them. The key for them is that they had to learn that they had to take the meds in order to function.

Don’t think that the doctors know it all. Make sure that you have a doctor that specializing in Bi-Polar treatment. Otherwise, you are at the mercy of whatever your symptoms are….and they can get confusing.

That’s my help. Hope it leads others to jump in because I know that what works for me won’t necessarily work for everyone. Don’t give up, don’t hurt yourself, don’t despair. Someone can help you – even if that ends of being yourself. (YOU WROTE HERE, didn’t you?)

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