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question one, can’t answer that one, ‘cuz i am newly struggling with them also… question two, that’s how i always end up admitted, as suicidal and homicidal. i’ve punched out hospital security, lunged at a maintainence guy for telling me i was always going to be in the hospital (and i had all intentions of killing him when i got to him). but what i must realize is that when those thoughts are strong and constant, then i am sick again. really, really sick. it isn’t that i really want them dead it is that i am so overwhelmed with the experience of living in my own skin, that to have them even near just shreds my senses. i get overloaded and then i don’t know any other way to react but in anger, in rage. just know that you are not alone in those thoughts, and you definately aren’t *crazy* for having them. they are after all, just thoughts. oh, if it were really that simple. carrie
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello.I am new here.I was diganosed with bipolar around november and have been struggling to cope with it.I was on lithium and navane,and although they worked,they made me terribly sick,so my doctor switched me to risperdal and depakote,but these meds are not working.I told my doctor that they werent and he wanted me to check into the hospital for the third time.I felt it was not neccesary because I did not have the suicidal and homicidal thoughts I had before.So now I am hoping I can find the right med combination that will work.I am glad that there is a newsgroup that will help me cope.Anyways I have a few questions How long did it take for you to find the right med or meds that
worked? It took 5 years to get my meds right. I think it took so long because a) it took me that long to believe that I had this and would have to deal with it and b) I have bipolar II and it wasn’t until I had really bad psychosis that they knew it. I also have PTSD, which in the beginning was really really bad, so they thought at that time that the psychosis was the PTSD stuff, when it was probably also some mania. do some bipolars have homicidal thoughts as well as suicidal thoughts?
Yes, probably. Even people without BP have homicidal thoughts. Before you buy.
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How long did it take for you to find the right med or meds that worked?
I was lucky….. the first combination worked, lithium and Paxil — they worked on my head, but I also had the unfortunate sexual (or NON-sexual) side effect of Paxil. Switched to wellbutrin as the antidepressant side of the cocktail and that works much better. Nothing is perfect, though….. I still feel flat. It’s been 6 years. (We’re going in for a re-evaluation of meds next week!) As for homicidal thoughts — I never have had them, but my son who is also is bipolar, does. Most of the time he is suicidal, and wants to take me with him. I’m very glad he hasn’t succeeded yet. — Eileen
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it took me 2 years to find a med "cocktail"that worked-in those 2 years i was in and out of the hospital 10 times.i hated lithium,it did nothing for me-and there was some med i recieved in a shot in my arm for 3 monthes,all that did was make me so restless i couldnt sit still for 20 minutes at a time,and wanted to walk(all the time ,everywhere)some of the meds knocked my dick right in the dirt(no lead in my pencil)and were inefective.i always pushed my hospitalizations back too-always waiting until i was absolutely overcome with a panic attack,or right on the edge of a psychosis…depacote was my silver bullet,which made it so i can go roughly a year between hospitalizations(and even then only admit myself for an adjustment)resperidol took away the psychosis,klonopine took away the panic attacks….i’ve been relatively stable for 3 years now.i neve really had homicidal or suicidal thoughts(just not a violent person,and suicide is absolutely out of the question for me…)j.j.m. D.A.V.
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do some bipolars have homicidal thoughts as well as suicidal thoughts? I guess sometimes I can relate. There were many times (Thank gosh I don’t have many experiences like this anymore) when I would be so enraged that I felt like I could kill someone, literally. Crushed "If I think I’m crazy then I must not be insane???"
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Hello.I am new here.I was diganosed with bipolar around november and have been struggling to cope with it.I was on lithium and navane,and although they worked,they made me terribly sick,so my doctor switched me to risperdal and depakote,but these meds are not working.I told my doctor that they werent and he wanted me to check into the hospital for the third time.I felt it was not neccesary because I did not have the suicidal and homicidal thoughts I had before.So now I am hoping I can find the right med combination that will work.I am glad that there is a newsgroup that will help me cope.Anyways I have a few questions How long did it take for you to find the right med or meds that worked? do some bipolars have homicidal thoughts as well as suicidal thoughts?
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Hi and Welcome to ASDM, Hello.I am new here.I was diganosed with bipolar around november and have been struggling to cope with it.I was on lithium and navane,and although they worked,they made me terribly sick,so my doctor switched me to risperdal and depakote,but these meds are not working.
What does your pdoc say? I told my doctor that they werent and he wanted me to check into the hospital for the third time.I felt it was not neccesary because I did not have the suicidal and homicidal thoughts I had before.So now I am hoping I can find the right med combination that will work.I am glad that there is a newsgroup that will help me cope.Anyways I have a few questions How long did it take for you to find the right med or meds that worked?
2 years. do some bipolars have homicidal thoughts as well as suicidal thoughts?
I have not experiened homicidal thoughts. Can you elaborate here? Peace, — Lynda
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