One Year Medication-Free with Bipolar Disorder
                   
psychcentral.com     Jul 23, 2008            

Although he doesn’t recommend it for others, Philip over at Furious Seasons describes what kind of year it’s been since he’s been off of his medications for bipolar disorder: I’m comfortable saying that if I were going to crash and burn and wind up back at square one, it likely would’ve happened by now. Things haven’t been perfect–there was a bout of depression/seasonal affective disorder a few months back, and my metabolism went haywire after I got off Lamictal and I put on 20 pounds–but I did come through an extremely cold, gray winter (one of the worst ever in Seattle), have been under loads of professional and life stresses and so on. And, yet, things are pretty good. This isn’t supposed to be happening, not by the standards of medicine and psychiatry. Bipolar disorder is a lifetime diagnosis and you take medications... [read full story]                    


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