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One of my grand daughters who was a 3-year Champion in H.S. Track and an “A”-“B” student had a depression/anxiety attack requiring hospitalization 3 different times. Her anxiety was terrible…seeing devil faces…she was afraid of dying any minute! That was 18 months ago. She is in college now and working part time. Doing faily well now.
I tell you about my grand daughter and me to let you know that if you TRUELY are suffering from depression or Bi-Polar condition, ALTHOUGH IT IS HELL FOR A WHILE, YOU WILL SURVIVE, YOU WILL GET BETTER! TRY, Force yourself to take your meds. If they make you sick or don’t remove symptoms TELL THE DOCTOR - LOUDLY! It took five different combos of meds for my grand daughter to “get it right”.
Very, very good advice. It is extremely common that people stop taking their medication once the symptoms subside, or they seem better… nobody wants to have to take medication for the rest of their lives and once the meds start working it is often hard for the patient to believe they were ever sick in the first place… I hate to say this but when the person in my family is sick( I don’t want to say who she is out of respect for her, ) she has a very difficult time with anything Christian, I am not really sure why, but when her medications are “well tuned” she is able to have a “normal” Catholic life. We know she is possibly beginning an episode when she starts saying “odd” things about religion and obsessing about religious concepts she has invented that don’t make any sense. She usually starts obsessing about astrology for some reason, and starts worrying about early pagans and cavemen, and whether they went to hell. When she was 16, two years before her first diagnosed episode she had a vision of angels in battle with demons. She believed that she, a friend and her brother would also be battling the demons with the angels in the end times. She was telling us about this after she got home one night. It happened while driving with friends. She was so intent and excited and could hardly talk. She kept saying “you are going to be so proud of me someday!” We had no idea that she would later be diagnosed with a form of mental illness. Over the next few years she became obsessed with religion, She would call me from College long distance for hours and talk about a religious idea she had that made no sense, but she would talk about it over and over. Until it finally mutated into believeing astrology was better than the Catholic Church, and then some serious paranoia and dillusions began happening and she had to be hospitalized. Last year she quit taking her meds for a few months and slowly started getting sick again. When it was full blown, she believed Christians were chasing her in their cars because she stopped believing in Jesus and also hallucinated that they were making secret signs to each other because they were plotting against her. It was extremely sad. She also hallucinates about certain scarey movies she has seen. When she is on her medication she is able to go to college and date and do just about anything…She was even my youngest daughter’s God Mother, and goes to Mass. The medications are improving so much that the side effects are much lower. He is right, if you are supposed t be taking medication and either stopped or they aren’t working properly you need to see your doc tomorrow, and take them! You owe it to yourself!