#mood stabilizers

[orangefuckingjuice]

made this for myself

[pinkbunnieskill]

taking zoloft is basically waking up one day and realizing you can't cum anymore

[natwill411]

this morning i have 2 choices:

i take my mood stabilizers on an empty stomach and shit my pants

i wait an hour until breakfast and have a lil episode

[sailormoonsailorstars]

I don’t even know how to caption this

[iheartyaya]

I was already having a bad day and my therapist just cancelled on me 🫠

[rotten-otaku]

doctor i can't tell if i'm not me

[pinkbunnieskill]

i really don't know what i would do without you *looking at my lamictal prescriptions*

[psycohousecat]

Mood👆 .. 👌😅

[natwill411]

me 🤝🏾 lamictal

[random-xpressions]

Food, sleep, orgasms - three most natural ways with which I reactivate myself. The perfect combination to clean up the accumulated junk of daily living...

Random Xpressions

[wtf-tfw]

This is my wife, Queef.

[queerpossums]

anti consumption sounds like a great philosophy until the mood stabilizers stop working

[braingardenart]

the ritalin shortage has arrived at my doorstep, felt like documenting the road ahead i knew this moment would come, but it sure doesn't make it any less frustrating

[antikr1sta]

I hate that my meds make me unable to get sad.. i want to cry, i want to get that crushing, suffocating feeling in my chest again. I want to just scream and wail and get angry - not be so indifferent to everything.

I like that I can kinda function better with mood stabilisers but they don't make me happy either.

It's like wearing wires attached to the sides of your mouth that keep the corners upturned and you are unable remove them no matter how hard you try.

It's strange to feel nostalgic about being an unstable teenager but damn.. i wish i could self destruct in peace.

[aura-oracle]

Is it weird or bad or something idk what word that I feel less otherkin then I did? It feels like I’m faking it but I totally felt it in the past. Just not as much anymore. I also don’t feel the need to age regress as often anymore. It just went away. I do feel like I have parts still. They’re just more internal. Like maybe more of a Parasian median than before. I still have my parts but I haven’t become them in a while. They’re like younger mes.

I also feel like back when I was on the mood stabilizer Depakote it made me dissociate a bit more. It made me a different person. My husband said I acted mean on it. I can’t find much info online about this. It even could have made me more plural than I was. I don’t know if that makes sense. I can’t find proof or evidence online of it happening. I think it also made me age regress more too. Now my younger selves are more inside but I know they still exist.

Does any of this make sense? Did any of this or similar happen to anyone else?

[atypicalstrong]

heeeeeeey these meds are great actually. like i'm simultaneously mad/frustrated with all my old doctors and myself for never suggesting or seeking out mood stabilizers before. like i didn't remember this, but according to my records my old psychiatrist recommended 2 years of ECT without ever having given me a mood stabilizer to try. like. that's wild. it makes me so mad. just bc my diagnosis back then was major depression and cyclothymia, mood stabilizers were never considered but electroshock WAS...

but also, and more importantly, i'm just so THRILLED to have them now. like. i thought my brain was just broken beyond repair. and in a way it is, but that doesn't mean i can't do daily maintenance. i haven't felt this good since 2019. at least.

anyways the point is, if you have bipolar disorder or cyclothymia, maybe try taking a mood stabilizer BEFORE agreeing to ECT. even if you're young. no one explained to me that mood stabilizers (specifically anti-psychotic class ime, not anti-convulsant class or lithium) could help where anti depressants failed. I didn't even know I had a cyclothymia diagnosis until 3 months after I started ECT.

just because you've tried lots of anti depressants or anti anxiety meds, doesn't mean there aren't meds out there that can help you. do your own research. make sure you know all your diagnoses. get second and third opinions. ECT should always be a last resort for suicidal depression and/or bipolar patients. (obligatory "i cannot speak to ECT when used to treat epilepsy that's a totally different ball game")

you don't have to keep living like this. there are other options. it can and WILL get better even though it's not easy.