I was working on some stories for you, but I have not been feeling very well once again. I thought I was getting better, but as of yesterday, I have not been feeling well. Except this time, my malaise is mood-based. I hate taking meds for a variety of reasons, and so I tend not to do so after I've been feeling alright for a week or so, and I end up paying the price.
Sorry about that. I am hoping to finish these essays over the weekend for you (plus, I have to write Birds in the News, too).
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Meantime, we'll just miss you.
Take care of yourself - we all miss you.
Hope you get better- get a lot of rest! I can't seem to start the day without your blog and the various musings you wonderfully elucidate upon. Take care!
It's the dementors which get you down so. Eat lots of chocolate. It really does help.
People stopping their meds seems to happen a lot. After your experience in the hospital, though, I would have thought that you'd consider another visit to be enough of a threat to stick to them.
Please don't end up back in the hospital. We might not get you back next time.
Breath in and breath out. OK? Now swallow that damn pill!
I hope you find the strength to do whatever you can to give yourself the best chance of staying well. Your writing touches your readers deeply.
Yeah, it kinda sucks to have to take meds. And yes, we have an advantage over, say, diabetics, in that if we stop the meds we aren't going to drop dead. Even so, and as you've just rediscovered, "treated" does not mean "cured"!
A major episode of depression, mania, or mixed state could thoroughly trash your lately-rebuilt life, so please, take your meds! Gripping as your hospital entries were, I'd much rather read about your next blogger's party, or new research, or... well, pretty much anything but disaster. ;-)
I hope your mood settles and you feel better soon!
I'm arguing with something respiratory myself (probably caught from my young nephews) but I'm still limping along, settling into my new home. I've got the SF and science books on the shelves, and now I'm working on folklore and mythology.
Found in one of my local free papers, a cute birdies story to help cheer you up....
Hang in there GrrlScientist!
Taking meds is tough. They are expensive and have side effects. What you're experiencing is not unique, I have been it through it too. You start feeling stable and think made I can cut down or stop taking the meds.
It would be nice if we could stop, but the alternative is not acceptable. BP is not like diabetes where you immediately suffer if you stop the meds, but consider the mortality of BP people who aren't on meds. Its not any safer, its just that the negative effects of stopping medications take longer to kick in.
There is hope, but part of the hope lies in continuing the treatment that is necessary to be healthy. Please get get back on your meds for yourself and for the people who care about you. Please keep posting on how you are doing there are people who are concerned. I am one of them.
I hope that you recover quickly.
Let me add my voice to the chorus of those wishing you well and hoping your mood improves. I wrote about how tough I feel this time of year is on my own blog, but it's soon to be autumn in earnest, bound to bring good things with it. I hope you feel better soon!