Recent content by Bekah

I've been on 200 mg of Lamotrigine for about a year now. It's been very helpful for me, but I haven't been mixing it with anything but some anti-anxiety meds for a while, so keep in mind that it could react strangely with your other medications. In my experience it really helps to keep things...

In response to your comment, Recovery4Me, it's really impressive that you're willing to try so hard to help this person. It sounds like you have a good start. Not judging the person for doing this is absolutely vital. You have to acknowledge that you don't understand what is driving her to this...

I would recommend not approaching her until you have a specific idea of what you might do to help. It's great that you want to reach out to someone who you can tell is suffering, but 'reaching out' is a pretty vague term, isn't it? Before you try to involve yourself it's important to think...

I was reading over the other suggestions on this post, and they really cover most of the bases when it comes to stuff like this. I especially second the idea of cutting out other stimulants. Giving up coffee and chocolate is hard, but speaking from experience, just knowingly taking that step of...

The app sounds like a good idea! Even if it doesn't always work, it definitely seems like it's worth keeping it. I have an idea of awful it can be to deal with thoughts like that all the time. When I'm in a bad place I do the same thing - hating myself for making a mistake, and constantly...