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- Mar 10, 2022
I had undiagnosed hypomanic episodes when I started SSRIs, which are known to exasperate manic/hypomanic tendencies, and my psych had to quickly get me on mood stabilizers before I online shopped myself into a hole in the ground. Logically I know I need to take both the SSRIs and mood stabilizers to be fully functional, but the urge to dump one or the other is always there. I ended up getting a pill box so it's easy to take them all in one go.People who tend to have manic episodes dislike taking mood stabilizers because it reduces their happiness. They have to understand that their manic episodes damage their life and cause bad things to happen, and resist the natural desire to feel manic.
Someone like Chris would never be able to fight that urge or find a way around it, IMO.