Posted by obsidian on February 17, 2009, at 17:59:36
In reply to Bipolar Diagnosis and Drug Abuse, posted by garnet71 on February 17, 2009, at 16:46:41
I don't know garnet, but I think there is this real overlap area of what is part of me and what is part of the substance abuse
I just stopped smoking for almost two months, and there has been a real recovery period, dealing with agitation and depression and anger, very uncomfortable to say the least
and this is just marijuana
it's been better recently, but I'm on extra klonopin now. I wasn't functioning well. Am I prepared to find out what that was like again without medication? No.I wasn't doing well before the pot smoking though, I was dealing with a tremendous amount of anxiety on a chronic basis and I had a hard time staying afloat
I don't know garnet, alcohol/substance abuse is a bad combination. I think that is where my parents were coming from. They were some seriously crazy people. I've seen crazier, but they were crazy in their own way.
I think stabilization first, some period remaining stable, then trying out less meds slowly, step by step, it's a slippery slope
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