Hey-  Just recently diagnosed.  I was on Paxil for 10 years, and others for years before that, but, naturally, they only did so much.  I thought that was how they worked.  I thought I had to do the rest of the work.  I finally had one too many life issues I couldn't handle and just fell apart.  What a mess!  Doc sent me to a shrink so I decided to have the shrink handle the meds.  Lo and behold, on the third day of a combo of meds for bi-polar, I was a... Read More

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  seriously, after, serveral months of hearing people talk about their problems at a support group meeting i soon realized, if, they didn't have their illness they wouldn't have alife. this misery gives them something to do, something to give them an identity.

  it was almost like they wanted to hang on to what made them the way they were and they didn't want to let go of it or else it would be like who will i have now to associate with. they needed a common ground... Read More

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