bipolar effects on the individual
BIPOLAR-1 "Some people work without any medication or therapy?
Or the type-1 bipolar ALL people need medication and / or therapy? I say this because my ex used to take 400 mg of Seroquel at night. She was an angel on your medication. Now, after 10 months she has stopped taking the Seroquel 400 mg because it feels doesn't need. He also stopped individual and family therapy. Anyway, after 10 months of doing awesome now says SEROQUEL 400 mg of Seroquel does not make you able to function because of the side effects of drowsiness. Some nights will take 50mg of SEROQUEL as a sleeping pill. He has been out of your dosage of 400 mg of Seroquel for 10 months. What will happen if he continues to take no medication or therapy?
Apart from truly rare and completely strange situations, then yes, all people with bipolar disorder I must be on drugs. The therapy is not always required. The therapy is very useful, but need not be a long life. It is reasonable for a person to be in therapy for a while and then leave or have only a few sessions a year as "check ins" and if I had to make a couple of weeks of treatment, as needed when things get bad, can be good. Many people with bipolar I disorder stop taking their medications because they think they are cured, everything is great, I no longer require it, or side effects or terrible. Aside from having problems with side effects of other "reasons" to stop are terrible. People are better because they take their medication, not a cure that prevents most or all symptoms and allows many people to lead a functional life. When they stop the drugs is a mounting for a disaster. He might be good now, or even months (sometimes for years-very rare), but the mania again, depression and back. And when things get bad again he could end up requiring hospitalization and often not an ambulance for a person to hospital is the police. And after every incident that may be more difficult to treat and can manifest itself in extreme forms. I imagine the SEROQUEL was sedative, is a highly sedative drug. And 400 mg is not a small dose. Adding a drug like Provigil, a "wake-promoting" drugs could help. It's not like the amphetamines but can greatly increase alertness and wakefulness. Other medications. Drugs such as Abilify tends to be much milder. And there are completely different types of drugs such as lithium, anticonvulsants such as Depakote, Tegretol, and Lamictal. These drugs tend to be much more tolerable. And people often take several medicines, in some cases, taking (for example), Tegretol and only 100-200 mg of Seroquel is sufficient. Or lithium and a modest dose of ABILIFY. And often medications sleep like Ambien or benzodiazepines such as clonazepam may be useful, but as both can be abused is not recommended for people with a history of abuse of any substance or dependence.
NAMI – Robin’s Story
