it really do be like that

Fair, I’ll take that.

Ignorance is not a defense excuse. With respect, take the L and learn from it.

i lol’d

But I don’t come anywhere close to bipolar symptoms.

I was told that for, I cannot stress this enough, years. And that statement seems to be directly contradicted by the previous sentence, “My ups can be super high and fun but my lows are incredibly extreme…more extreme than others seem to have.” Now, I can’t diagnose you (especially by text over the internet), but I can say if your meds don’t seem to be working and none of them seem to have worked in the past, it’s time for a second opinion on the diagnosis. Ideally by a specialist with plenty of experience, who is not biased by previous specialists’ impressions.

Also it’s not strictly “over the counter,” that was incorrect on my part. It’s the exact same stuff as what is in my capsules, it’s just 99.9% lab-grade purity, instead of 99.999% medicinal-grade purity. The link was to a science/chemical supply, not a pharmacy.

Yeah I’ve heard that definitely-depression-and-anxiety-and-not-anything-else song and dance myself. For years. I don’t present as the typical bipolar patient, my moodswings are irregular, and my mania is more like hypomania. Getting doctors to understand something other than the idealized stereotypical clinical model is like pulling teeth while wearing grippy socks, in my experience.

I recently discovered lithium carbonate is available over the counter. My dose started at 1050 mg at twice per day; 600 in the morning, 450 at night. I know within the same day that it is having a positive effect, even if I haven’t taken it for a while, especially if I take the entire day’s dose at once.

It’s a salt, so I shouldn’t mix it in a glass of water if I’m taking the powder instead of a capsule, but instead sandwich the powder between two layers of applesauce, yogurt, or similar consistency foodstuff, and swallow whole. Contraindications for kidney, heart, and thyroid disease. Potential danger of developing kidney disease after years of consistent usage, further study ongoing. Regular kidney function tests and lithium serum concentration tests required.

All that said, I AM NOT A DOCTOR, AND SELF-MEDICATION IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS. I was forced to resort to self-medication as an extreme desperation measure against the collapse of the VA medical system, but that’s a whole other thing. I’m swallowing a gram of lithium powder in applesauce these days and it just fucking works. If I’m you, and I still haven’t found a medicine that has any noticeable effect (and since it’s supposed to affect your cognition and emotional balance, the lack of noticeable effect just means plainly, lack of effect), I’m going to my doctor and insisting we try some new ideas. Lithium saved my life, and I wasted a lot of time wating for so-called experts to tell me what was going on in my head when I was the one feeling the shit.

I take lithium for bipolar. It’s the first actually effective medication I’ve ever taken, it took literally 12 years for me to be correctly diagnosed and then assigned an appropriate medicaiton.

Fair enough. At least, nobody seems willing to try.

fuck your disingenuous bullshit

still regurgitating the same tired old nationalist propaganda. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq: are these evidences of “unassailable” military might? just looking at one indicator, how is the dollar doing these days, comparatively speaking?

If they were actually released, would you actually trust anything this regime produces?

I’m sorry, but an actual Nazi can’t pretend to be progressive long enough to finish a sentence

You’re dead wrong.

That somewhat cartoonish skull-and-crossbones is specifically the symbol worn by, among some others, the nazis who operated the extermination camps.

That he wasn’t left enough wasn’t the criticism, and you know that. The criticism was specifically that there is reasonable doubt that the guy is a cryptofascist.

TAKES, GET YOUR TAKES HERE, HOT AND FRESH

so you want everyone else to get started on the work, removed all the while about how its not being done to your satisfaction? fuck off lazy doomer.

i recommend going to the rally next time and linking up with the orgs there. put in some work and do some networking, you’ll probably feel a helluva lot better than sitting around removed about how unfair it all is into the void. speaking from experience on both ends now.

I will imagine that, justsomeguy.

strange, I’ve never seen an ad on piratebay or my regular streaming sites.

…but not his freedom.