There is a fine line between accepting someone's poor choice, and another to enable it. Enabling is to encourage something past the point of safety or brevity. The thought patterns typically come BEFORE the use, not after. I DO feel an increase in depression the day after, but it stabilizes [as much as it ever will] the day after. No surprise there. As far as marijuana use goes, THC does not bind to any of the chemical receptors in the brain that are associated with bipolar disorder, so it won't affect the bipolarity. And, in fact...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_e...93_Bipolar
Just something to consider. Evidence is anecdotal, yeah. But, given how I seem to react to it, well, it seems to help when I really, really need it.
Alas, there is no successful way to treat bipolar disorder. Like many other mental health problems, it is a lifelong condition that can even with therapy and medication is not likely to ever come under full control. After all, medications only address the symptoms, and therapy only addresses emotional reactions to those symptoms...but there is no way to fully cure that which causes the symptoms. Not right now, anyway. Maybe, hopefully, in the future. Buuut...given how the APS consistently feels the need to butt heads with the APA over matters that get downright trivial and petty, and NIMH is getting tugged back and forth between the two, well...I won't hold my breath.
Best I can do is just address the symptoms when they reach particularly overwhelming points by any means necessary, and meanwhile to explore the different medical and therapeutic options available, which is what I am presently doing.
Treatment != Instantaneous improvement of symptoms. I go into this under the clear understanding that I might end up going through dozens of medication combinations before I finally hit that sweet spot of clarity and stability. I really hold no hope that I will fully stabilize any time soon. Doesn't mean I'm gonna stop trying, though, either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_e...93_Bipolar
Just something to consider. Evidence is anecdotal, yeah. But, given how I seem to react to it, well, it seems to help when I really, really need it.
Alas, there is no successful way to treat bipolar disorder. Like many other mental health problems, it is a lifelong condition that can even with therapy and medication is not likely to ever come under full control. After all, medications only address the symptoms, and therapy only addresses emotional reactions to those symptoms...but there is no way to fully cure that which causes the symptoms. Not right now, anyway. Maybe, hopefully, in the future. Buuut...given how the APS consistently feels the need to butt heads with the APA over matters that get downright trivial and petty, and NIMH is getting tugged back and forth between the two, well...I won't hold my breath.
Best I can do is just address the symptoms when they reach particularly overwhelming points by any means necessary, and meanwhile to explore the different medical and therapeutic options available, which is what I am presently doing.
Treatment != Instantaneous improvement of symptoms. I go into this under the clear understanding that I might end up going through dozens of medication combinations before I finally hit that sweet spot of clarity and stability. I really hold no hope that I will fully stabilize any time soon. Doesn't mean I'm gonna stop trying, though, either.
