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Mental State to Be Considered In AttemptedMurder Case
DO> Hmm. Do you think it should?
Too Many Inadequate Diagnoses of Child BipolarDisorder
DO> I agree, do you?
FDA Mandates Suicide Warnings for Epileptic Meds
DO> I think this is a good idea, do you?
Dealing With Stigma of Mental Illness in Teens
DO> Great article on something not talked about often.
Reporter’s Son Bravely Shares the Story of HisSuicide Attempt
DO> Sad story.
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the suicide warning on meds i recieve med alert and they know what i am taking and sent this notice yesterday. i am on trileptal the generic lable oxcarbazepin . been on for almost a year in june dr asked if i wanted to try a new med. i said why change if all needed to just increase one pill at night. she always would ask if i feel suicidal. no if i had headache, no. but some time the way i felt she said that was penepause symptoms not bipolar as i have that hitting the fan too. my husband has his hands full at times as i have the i don’t care attitude. find your own food wash your own work clothes wash the dishes too. so he tries to wash the dishes so i won’t ask again. wrong i just have him wash them again just like a kid doesn’t clean his room. well enough of chatty cindy have a good christmas and a happy new year to david and the crew
I’m not sure if I am going senile or not, but I could not find a place yesterday to post a comment. I found it very ironic that you would ask about Christmas on the “18th” as that is the day my 19 year old son started his first manic episode. Over the next 4 days he became worse as our family doctor didn’t know what was going on and sent us home. After 4 days of totally abnormal behaviour the health professionals sent us to a city for more tests. All in all, they diagnosed bipolar on Dec. 22. My husband and I were devistated.. our “normal” son was no longer “normal”. He was out of control. He wasn’t violent, but did show some anger that I had never seen before. I am very happy to report that he is, and has been for almost a year now, stable on medication. The msg yesterday talked about your worst Christmas… well.. last year was our worst. We had Christmas Eve dinner at McDonalds. This year we are planning low key.. just good food and some family time. I have been worried sick about my son.. he’s been away at school since August, and I have only seen him a couple of times since then and he seems good.
I guess the only other “bad” Christmas was the year I had my appendix out on Dec. 23rd!! My son was 5 then.
Merry Christmas to you all……. and hugs to you too!
Diane
Dave ,
yesterday there was not a place to post a comment and todat the place you have put to post a comment isn’t right either,its a required area with a pass word that shows up.
Maybe with all the sickness you are having with your staff alot of error are being made.
Maybe the stress of that and the holidays are effecting you too.
I miss the blogging and I hope the error are corrected soon.
Have a great day.
I’ve been taking Lamotrigine (150 mg a day) for several months now. I had some family and job problems in the past but now I feel that I am recovering. I definitely feel sad most of the time, overwhelmed, irritable and depressed particularly during the holidays. To be honest, I’ve always had thoughts about death, and dying, but lately I’ve been thinking more and more about ending my own life. I do mental planning. Due to my current job, I’ve had the opportunity to attend 6 funerals in less than two weeks, and I am planning to keep going to those funerals. Somehow it gives me a new perspective about life and death. I just go to get an idea of how mine could be. I know you are thinking now “This guy is weird”. But I am not. I have the ability to hide my emotions and feelings from my co-workers, so nobody knows what’s going on. In most of the ways they think I am the perfect worker. But I feel empty. I guess I do not have the strength and the courage to carry on this ultimate act of self-destruction. Maybe because I feel sad leaving my kids alone at an early age or perhaps because I think my spouse still needs better things from me. I really don’t know. Due to my job requirements, I have to live separate from my family (1100 miles apart). I won’t see them for Xmas or New Year’s Eve. I love my family, but I think they won’t miss me too much if I am not there. I am going through some financial stress, but I think that within 2 or 3 months I will recover (hopefully). Being alone in my room makes me wander about my existence, and I am not happy with what I see.
Thank you David for your support, you are a good man. I wish you wonderful holidays.
So long,
Carlos
To Carlos, My Dad when i was child was in the Irish Defence force and had serveral trips aboard and although he was thosands of miles away I know that I would have missed him should anything had happened to him . We had christmases apart aswell and i know they were hard on my mam but knowing the home coming would come is what kept us all going on. Last week my Dad got caught up in an armed robbery, wrong place wrong time sort of thing. he got out alive and without injury Thank God. I later texted him how much I loved him. His reply was not to worry he’d talk to me later. But my reply was we fight we make up but we never tell thoses closest to us how much we love them often enough.
i hope you get through this hard time
God Bless Amanda
PS I hope You have a good christmas ring home for christmas it might make a difference.
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