Posted by Quintal on August 29, 2007, at 18:12:30
In reply to Re: Pseudo-neurotic Schizophrenia, posted by RealMe on August 29, 2007, at 10:49:21
I live in a rural area and there's only one psychiatrist to serve a huge catchment area, so the services are heavily overloaded as it is, and many of those cases are emergencies and serious illness like Schizophrenia. My friend was discharged during her second pregnancy - a time of high stress for any woman surely, more so considering that her first psychotic break was triggered by the death of her first child. Hardly the time to discontinue care then eh? But that's what he did (it was the same man). So frankly it's mostly crisis management, and they have no time for treating *relatively* stable people with BPD unless there's serious suicidal ideation, and there isn't in my case.
I think I'm doing pretty well actually. I seem to have improved a great deal since being discharged, though I don't know what role quitting benzos has played in this new relative stability. Unfortunately I've been self-medicating with small doses of codeine in OTC painkillers, and though they've worked very well I've now built up tolerance, and an ulcer (from the ibuprofen contained in Nurofen Plus). So....I'll have to quit. And I'm hoping Parnate will help take up the slack in my dopamine system.
Yeah, I could change GPs but I'm sure there'd be questions asked and both parties would be suspicious of my intentions, so on the whole I don't think it would do me much good. Better the devil I know, or something like that.
Q
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