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[–] Peacecraft535 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Good list, I'd also like to add Asenapine (saphris). It's an atypical antipsychotic. I had a lot of trouble finding a med that worked well without having terrible side effects. I started this about two years ago and in combination with my lithium, it's been a godsend, I've never felt more even-mooded for this long a duration ever before.

[–] ickplant 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Thank you so much, I added it to the list. I feel like the new atypical antipsychotics are great, for me it was Vraylar (cariprazine) that helped a ton along with lamotrigine.

[–] Peacecraft535 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've definitely come a long way with medicinal treatment for bipolar, even just in the last 20 years. When i was first diagnosed the meds helped level out the bipolar symptoms, but basically made me a zombie; now the meds successfully even me out, but I'm still functional.

[–] ickplant 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely, it's so much better now. You can actually hope to be functional and more or less "normal." I always liked that meme that says we would have been lobotomized 100 years ago... dark but probably true.

[–] Peacecraft535 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, being bipolar in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was a horror show. First off, the general care in most asylums of the era were non-exist at best, and constant torturous abuse at worst; the most common treatments were powerful sedation drugs, electric shock therapy, or a lobotomy. My mom (who was also bipolar) didn't remember most of her teenage years because of electric shock therapy. Nasty stuff.

[–] ickplant 3 points 1 year ago

It was awful! I can't even imagine how different my life would have been.

[–] PepeSilvia 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn’t they make a show about the doctor who came up with the vibrator as a treatment for “hysteria”? I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called.

Funny that hysteria’s etymology is hyster, meaning uterus because they believed mental illness to be a woman’s disease

[–] Peacecraft535 2 points 1 year ago

Do you mean 'Masters of Sex'

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