Quick update for health concern (will be replaced tomorrow morning by normal update):
I fear I am experiencing mania due to the Wellbutrin finally taking effect (started taking it a week or so ago). Mania caused by Wellbutrin is what caused my accident two years ago, which caused psychosis for two weeks, which aggravated my pre-existing anxiety problems.
Symptoms I'm experiencing:
- Daydreams are out of control (relatively harmless though, but it's scaring me)
- Hyper all day, worked like crazy to finish cleaning my room today where I had little to no motivation to do it before
- Nervous tic worsened
- I'm overheated right now
- I will have trouble getting to sleep
- Thoughts might be starting to race
I left a message with my psychiatrist and took a lot of extra medication to try to prevent my symptoms from worsening (tranquilizer, more antipsychotic, and now the mood stabilizer).
That may be overreacting but I I didn't take any more than I should.
I only took my usual dose of tranquilizer that I always take when I have a panic attack. I hadn't taken any for days before now. Psych had advised me previously to take more antipsychotic in the event of mania. The mood stabilizer's job is to prevent mania.
I just want to be able to sleep. I have things to do that require driving but I probably won't risk getting in my car. I was quite concerned having to drive to therapy this evening, but I managed it safely.
This sucks!
I fear I am experiencing mania due to the Wellbutrin finally taking effect (started taking it a week or so ago). Mania caused by Wellbutrin is what caused my accident two years ago, which caused psychosis for two weeks, which aggravated my pre-existing anxiety problems.
Symptoms I'm experiencing:
- Daydreams are out of control (relatively harmless though, but it's scaring me)
- Hyper all day, worked like crazy to finish cleaning my room today where I had little to no motivation to do it before
- Nervous tic worsened
- I'm overheated right now
- I will have trouble getting to sleep
- Thoughts might be starting to race
I left a message with my psychiatrist and took a lot of extra medication to try to prevent my symptoms from worsening (tranquilizer, more antipsychotic, and now the mood stabilizer).
That may be overreacting but I I didn't take any more than I should.
I only took my usual dose of tranquilizer that I always take when I have a panic attack. I hadn't taken any for days before now. Psych had advised me previously to take more antipsychotic in the event of mania. The mood stabilizer's job is to prevent mania.
I just want to be able to sleep. I have things to do that require driving but I probably won't risk getting in my car. I was quite concerned having to drive to therapy this evening, but I managed it safely.
This sucks!
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....btw, my sexy-voice-fantasy would def be Sarah Vowell.
As for the movie- I've deliberately tried to not learn much (i.e. read rampant spoilers), but to give you some ideas: Miranda July is a performance artist who wrote/ stars in/ directed, it won an award or two (Cannes and Sundance honors), and you can see some (non-spoiler) one/two-sentence reviews at rottentomatoes.com (at least the first page of reviews that came up had no spoilers). Ebert liked it. Folks who like it say it's touching/ interesting/ quirky; folks who don't say it's too quirky and artificial in the dialogue.
btw, it's also playing at the E Street Cinema. We could both take the Metro there. (Maybe Sunday afternoon, 2:25?) If you wanted to go to Shirlington sometime, it is right next to I-395, so it'd be convenient if you could drive down that way from DC. Shirlington also has lots of restaurants. There's a Cosi across from E Street.
Speaking of lunch- I'm about to go now. I will still read more stuff later!
ps- pygmy likes the movie!
[Edited on Jul 29, 2005 11:30AM]