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Marcia Purse

I'm single, living alone, and currently coping well with my BP.

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Bipolar Disorder and Sexuality

Having bipolar disorder can have a powerful impact on sexuality. Mania and hypomania can cause a powerful increase in sexual desire and can lead to reckless sexual behavior. It's all too common for manic people to have affairs, one-night stands with strangers, or gobble up money using phone sex lines or internet pornography sites. Marriages,... Read more Chevron

posted 02/23/2011, comments (3)|

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lady behind the mask

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ildhood diagnoses: are they helping or hurting our kids?

How young is too young for a diagnosis? When do meds hurt kids more than they help? I've seen only enough to have mixed feelings on the subject. What about you? Read more at ladybehindthemask.blogspot.com

posted 01/10/2011, comment (1)|

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A long weird journey ends behind a mask

I don't know how it's been for you, but I've always been able to consider MI as just another chronic illness that you have to treat -- diabetes of the brain. Until Cymbalta landed me in the hospital and my boss decided I was a CRAZY and I lost my job at a company where I'd been working for a decade. But I get ahead of my story. Read more

posted 12/26/2010, comments (0)|

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The 'Joy' of med changes

I am going thru my monthy brain swirl with the latest med change. My pdoc is slowly reducing the tegretol that I was prescribed when first diagnosed over to lamictal. I'm getting to the end of the process but it still throws me. I go thru the anxiety before hand knowing that it's coming. He even asked on Wed if I was ready. I talked about... Read more Chevron

posted 11/20/2010, comments (0)|

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LadyBehindTheMask

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12 yrs diagnosed; 5 yrs stable

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Singing to relieve the word-blockages from Zonegran

Hi, all. Back after a long hiatus. I just wanted to share something I've been trying that seems to be working. I've been having a really rough time with word-blocking because of Zonegran ... which is for me not nearly so bad as Lithium in its overall cognitive impact, but it does have this one problem. And I find... Read more Chevron

posted 11/16/2010, comments (0)|

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