Living with Bi Polar and NOT taking meds

[satanic goatslayer]

Try taking no medication for a week. If you wake up one day with the severed heads of strangers hanging from your ceiling, then you are fine and don't need further medication.

 

[Honey Roasted]

IMHO, it's a bad idea not to take meds. It might not be too hard, though, if you have low grade bipolar II, and NOT full-blown bipolar I. In any case, if you don't take meds and closely monitor yourself, you might end up slipping into a serious manic episode without realizing it. Here's an excellent place full of the most knowledgeable and experienced people to ask your question:

http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/index.html

 

[georgie24]

i think this disorder is a crock of shit. i ran a search a while back and this is what i found

you have hi's and lows- who the fuck doesnt
you spend alot of cash- who the fuck doesnt
you crave sex alot-who the fuck doesnt

those are just a few i came across before i wanted to puke

 

[Puc]

warik i think you are missing something with that mind over matter rhetoric.

maybe you will be the first one to squint your eyes real hard and mend a broken arm, but even if that is possible, (for anyone but jesus lol) what if the mind is the matter in question?

i have no doubt that our brains have yet untapped powers, but if the brain is the defective organ, i don't see it healing itself.

that, and I will always wonder what is so wrong with taking the easy way out... I spent YEARS trying to fight an anxiety disorder, and the longer i fought the more it crippled me (though, admittedly, ephedrine contributed to my issues). one pill and all that ended. It causes me to wonder... Why spend your life trying to master yourself when you could spend it mastering the universe and everything?

 

[casavant]

Speaking from a completely non-medical, inexperienced standpoint: why not?

Just cause a doc diagnoses you with something and says you need meds doesn't mean it's true to the extent he puts it. Shit, if I'd go see a doc now I have no doubt that I'd be diagnosed with ADD when in fact there's nothing wrong with me. Same shit has happened to a friend who has actually gone on meds.

-Warik

With all due respect man, bi-polar and depression are pretty damn serious. Trying to work through it or pretending it isn't there is about as easy as getting shot in the foot and trying to run a race.

 

[decem]

warik.. would you recommend that i diabetic NOT take insulin.. cuz that's pretty much what you're saying here.. same thing homey..


this really depends on how severe you are.. and there really are not that many people that suffer from severe bi-polar - though many are diagnosed as having it and treated as having it as well. take nat. anab. for example.. i don't know shit about him.. but i highly doubt that he's got a SEVERE case of bi-polarism.. it's probably bi-polar II or more along the lines of mood-disorder.. as are you.. in which case, yes you can absolutely take care of it yourself without meds.. same as me.. i've been diagnosed as having a lower grade form of bi-polarism aka mood-disorder.. i don't take meds.. meds helped.. but it doesn't interfere that much with my life when i do not take meds.. so i don't..

true bi-polarism severly interferes with one's life when not treated with medications.. plain and simple.. if this disease is interfering with your life.. then you need to get meds..

 

[WODIN]

I think you can kick it if you have the will to do so.

 

[SofaGeorge]

There is probably no bigger nightmare than a bipolar person who thinks they can go without their meds. YOU CAN'T. You need them... and the price you and others pay if you don't take your meds is HIGH.

 

[decem]

i'm guessing that you've never been diagnosed as having bi-polarism.. and that you're just thinking you are.. am i right?

 

[NY Muscle]

Is it possible for someone who is 22 years old, to have bi polar disorder and depression and live a nice well productive life WITHOUT taking ANY psych meds?

hell no..just ask BMOM..