I've read on several PTSD recovery areas online that recovery mean that a person should only be on medications for several months then wean off. Please let me say this is ONLY my experience and that I also suffer Chronic Migraines that run in my family and run throughout my family though some may say they are PTSD related it is impossible to say, just like Bipolar, but it is documented to run within my family as well. I have news that my close cousins have been DXd with it as well and do not suffer PTSD, nor did my maternal grandmother or second cousin who both committed suicide.
I have gone off my medications for several months in the past, the results..continued insomnia, mood swings that are uncontrollable with outbursts that involved hospitalizations for weeks, worse paranoia, anxiety off the meter, rage that's been completely out of control without the ability to calm down by myself. My husband has helped me try alternatives but nothing has worked, I ended with severe depression, hallucinations, and finally hysterics. I've tried more than 5 times in the past 10yrs.
My husband is not a fan of cutting my meds after everything he has been through. This is a complete opposite of his stance when I met him. I have cut out one dose of mood stabilizers since starting therapy as well as all psyche meds with the exception of a very small dose to help me sleep at night but can feel the "standing on a log in the river" effect sometimes. My tdoc seems to think I will be off of them unless I do show to be truly bipolar. I tend to believe my patterns show they support that Dx, wait until Fall hits I will be stop thinking about leaving town and become the biggest home body in the neighborhood! It's like day and night! I become a whole different person, or have the past umpteen years of my life. But as soon as Winter hits Depression kills me. Without the right meds the last 2 years I would have been in the hospital, this year was the first time I didn't spend it in bed. I was so grateful, makes it hard to WANT to give them up after so many years doing that :sick:.
To be perfectly honest..I don't give a shit what works just so it works!
I do believe therapy will help me through a lot of my issues my dissociation and paranoia seem not effected much by my meds just the depression and after a lifetime of it I really choose not to have it, is that so wrong??
(I think I know the answer but I'd be interested in other people's answers so don't hold back.)
Rain
I have gone off my medications for several months in the past, the results..continued insomnia, mood swings that are uncontrollable with outbursts that involved hospitalizations for weeks, worse paranoia, anxiety off the meter, rage that's been completely out of control without the ability to calm down by myself. My husband has helped me try alternatives but nothing has worked, I ended with severe depression, hallucinations, and finally hysterics. I've tried more than 5 times in the past 10yrs.
My husband is not a fan of cutting my meds after everything he has been through. This is a complete opposite of his stance when I met him. I have cut out one dose of mood stabilizers since starting therapy as well as all psyche meds with the exception of a very small dose to help me sleep at night but can feel the "standing on a log in the river" effect sometimes. My tdoc seems to think I will be off of them unless I do show to be truly bipolar. I tend to believe my patterns show they support that Dx, wait until Fall hits I will be stop thinking about leaving town and become the biggest home body in the neighborhood! It's like day and night! I become a whole different person, or have the past umpteen years of my life. But as soon as Winter hits Depression kills me. Without the right meds the last 2 years I would have been in the hospital, this year was the first time I didn't spend it in bed. I was so grateful, makes it hard to WANT to give them up after so many years doing that :sick:.
To be perfectly honest..I don't give a shit what works just so it works!
I do believe therapy will help me through a lot of my issues my dissociation and paranoia seem not effected much by my meds just the depression and after a lifetime of it I really choose not to have it, is that so wrong??
(I think I know the answer but I'd be interested in other people's answers so don't hold back.)
Rain
