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Without a Trace
It’s been four days since I stopped taking Olanzapine per doctors orders, and I have been only on Vraylar and Prozac. I had one more sleepless night, but fell asleep the next day, so it didn’t develop into hypomania. I have some time off now before my job starts in August, so I am making…
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Sleep as a Savior
Day 13 of my medication change: I have been sleeping well, and that is helping to keep me in the range of normal to mildly hypomanic. I usually wake up feeling normal and by 10:00am I am happy go lucky, singing and repeating phrases, and enjoying the extra energy. I even wondered if maybe the…
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Rapid Cycling
Day seven of the medication change: It’s becoming clear that I am having fairly rapid mood shifts over the course of a few days. Friday I was hypomanic and didn’t sleep at all, and Sunday I crashed and slept most of the day. I also forgot to eat. Today (Monday) I am hypomanic again. I…
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Hypomania
Something flipped the switch to turn on hypomania. I find myself singing, sweeping, dusting, and clapping. Just minutes before I was curled in my comfy chair with the doldrums, a sense of malaise wrapped around me like a blanket. Now I am clapping and singing “Black Water” by the Doobie Brothers. Over and over “Mississippi…
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Within Reach
A reader let me know that she tried to post a comment, and word press sent an error code that this comment couldn’t be posted. I apologize if you put effort into writing a comment only to receive an error message. If you want to touch base before I figure out what’s preventing comments from…
