Hello I'm new. Are you?

[elizabethII]

I'm new and wondering how or if you can add a box on the mood tracker for a med that isn't listed.?

I'm going to try this and see if I can find a pattern to my cycles. I am recently diagnosed and maybe I am a rapid cycler what ever that is.
Thanks for being here.
Elizabeth

[monkeyc]

Paranoia is normal.  I suffer from it a lot and it does stabilise, trust me, once I got my lithium levels up my paranoia got easier to handle - its also being aware that you are paranoid so you can filter it.

The brain comes back.  It gets easier.  You have bad and good days but it does get easier.  Trust me rich religion im a rapid cycler and complusive thinking is a part for me as well - you just have to learn to break the cycle - calming the mind can work, there are exercises for it, meditation can wokr (it sort of does for me) and so can CBT for some people, sometimes its as simple as changing what you are doing. These things take time - its important to take a deep breath some days and realise that you can get better and it will happen.

Of course some days thats easier said than done, im there now and we all have them.

[elizabethII]

Thanks for the input. I just decided that zoloft will stand for the drug I'm on. I'm the only one that sees my chart anyway.
And yes your brain will come back, because you haven't really lost it. I think that it's just covered up by some reactions that will quiet down sorta like how the water in a pool gets stirred up in a storm. It's water in a pool, just a different level of agitation. Think cool stll water and just put yourself out there gently. That's what I do when I am not too sure what others might think, I sort of test out the water, put a toe in, and follow with my foot a bit at a time. For me new to this DX, I am still learning what I can do to manage my illness. This tracker seems to help so far.
Best, EK and thanks

[RichReligion]

Yeah, i'm still kinda new....Don't know about the box thing, but the rapid cycler sounds like composive thinker....I have that too....I have a lot of stuff, but the most interesting is the hyper sesitive.;because its causes paranoia, or is paranoia...makes me want to be ati-social but I continue to put myself out there...which may be the worse thing to do in some case because I gotta fight everybody...but my brain will be back.