Lithium toxicity

Lithium toxicity is a bitch and all I did was take my meds. I didn’t know what was happening at the time but for a few weeks before I was having severe memory… Continue reading →

Mania come down

My mania appears to have burnt itself out. Now I am left in some kind of limbo where I am feeling slightly depressed but nothing to write home about. The thing that bothers… Continue reading →

Crazy soup for the soul

Crazy Soup for the Soul I hear voices telling me to kill myself. They won’t go away, they tell me that I am worth nothing, that there is no point in me being… Continue reading →

Hearing voices is just madness

I am totally crazy at the moment. The voices won’t leave me alone and I feel surrounded by madness. I’ve been seeing things too, particularly when I’m trying to get to sleep. I… Continue reading →

OK mood, seriously WTF

After about 5 days of what you could call happiness I have slipped back into a pit of depression again. I always know things are getting serious when I start looking up the… Continue reading →

My depression: magically gone

Ok so the holidays are over. I successfully managed to avoid most of it: I did make Christmas dinner and bought a few presents but that’s about it. I don’t see why I… Continue reading →

Ode to a nightingale

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains     My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains     One minute past, and Lethe-wards had… Continue reading →

Leaving the crisis team, thank goodness

OK so I have been discharged from the crisis team. Not because I am well or in any way better but because they seem to think that my overall expression of annoyance with… Continue reading →

Living a mixed affective episode and sodium valproate

So over the past month or so I have been in the throws of a mixed affective episode which has been extremely unpleasant. I have been violently swinging from the depths of depression… Continue reading →

Reality of mental illness #3 MEDICATION

One of the main problems that people with mental illness face is taking medication. I take the following every day…