Living Bipolar by Landon Sessions

Author:Landon Sessions [Sessions, Landon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Self-help, Mental Health, Psychology, Nonfiction
Published: 2014-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

Side Effects from Medications

The most important point is that side effects represent a problem for which there are solutions other than simply stopping your medication. Informing your doctor on a regular basis about you side effects will help him or her consider and discuss with you the alternatives to your treatment plan.

-Miklowitz 2002: 140

Throughout my teenage years, there were a lot of hospitalizations. The hospitalizations started at the age of 13, and have lasted until this past January when I was 26. I believe there were six in total, and they were all scary -- especially the first one. Being a young person it was difficult being around other mentally challenged people who were older than me. The first stay in a mental institution, seeing the other patients with their different behaviors was hard for me to deal with. I remember having a roommate who put things in the electrical sockets, and she would also get very angry and scare me.

During my first stay I was still very pure as a person, and the whole experience was very different for me. I’ve hated every hospital I’ve gone to. At night I would stay up as long as I could, just to make the night longer, because the days were so painful to me, having to go to the therapies and everything else that I had to do while there. One hospital that I stayed at, four people had to share a bathroom, and you had to shower in a hallway in a little room, and this was very awkward for me, because I was not used to having to do this sort of stuff. I always liked my privacy; therefore, it was very strange for me.

After graduating from middle school, the transition into high school at the age of 15 was also a problem, and high school was overwhelming similar to middle school. I was placed in a gifted severely emotionally disabled program. I was doing 12th grade work when I was in ninth grade, but I was also dealing with being unstable with the Bipolar illness. I finished my year there, but I just couldn’t go back. I tried a couple other different schools, and finally became so frustrated that I decided to give up. I ended up staying in my room for a year, or two, and I did not want to leave the house. I kept eating, and watching TV, and I really had no life. When I wouldn’t leave the house for a couple of years, if I needed new clothes my parents would have to bring them home, and I would try them on, and I would send them back if they didn’t fit. I wasn’t doing much during this time period.

Around the age of 16, or 17, I went back to high school. At this point they had changed my medications, and I had lost some weight, but I went through a manic episode, and I became very promiscuous, engaging in negative activities. I

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