1.27.13

Yeah, she was a little reluctant to wean me off the final one, but I’m really glad she acquiesced. Do they teach you in psychiatry programs that you’ll encounter people who have been given a diagnosis that isn’t correct, but circumstances – partially just taking medication to begin with, has kept them sick? This is maybe an over share, but I was at hazelden about 4 years ago and when I got there my current psychiatrist had me on 6 medications: 3 mood stabilizers, an antidepressant and 2 benzos. I heard someone lecture while there who talked about how people show up with all these different diagnoses that aren’t necessarily correct. That planted a seed in my mind…. And it took me several years, but I did it. I’m actually happy and healthy now versus how sick I was before. I had to do a tremendous amount of work to get to this point. 2/15/2013 will mark one year since I last took any medication for mental illness. It’s a pretty remarkable thing.

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