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Topic: RE: AA people????
Hi Leslie,
I'm coming up on on one year - June 18th. It feels wonderful. I love becoming sober. I am pretty active in AA, although I work 2 jobs and chase 4 kids. Would love to chat with you anytime. I also have alot of emotional healing - major trauma - to work through. Don't know why it just started up. My drinking career wasn't long - about 18 months, but long enough to cause me trouble. I absolutely love the people in AA - they are true friends.
Kathy
I'm coming up on on one year - June 18th. It feels wonderful. I love becoming sober. I am pretty active in AA, although I work 2 jobs and chase 4 kids. Would love to chat with you anytime. I also have alot of emotional healing - major trauma - to work through. Don't know why it just started up. My drinking career wasn't long - about 18 months, but long enough to cause me trouble. I absolutely love the people in AA - they are true friends.
Kathy
Topic: AA people????
Hi! My name is Leslie and I am an alcoholic. I have been sober since October 4, 2005.
ANyone here?? I have been looking for an AA board not thinking MENTAL HEALTH! Duh! To me I am normal! LOL
Anyway, I wanted to talk to those who are on this journey with our specific and unique situations. I have healing my emotional self and now it is my physical self I am getting ready to take care of. I have surgery on the 25th of June and I am so excited!!
Lets chat!
Leslie
ANyone here?? I have been looking for an AA board not thinking MENTAL HEALTH! Duh! To me I am normal! LOL
Anyway, I wanted to talk to those who are on this journey with our specific and unique situations. I have healing my emotional self and now it is my physical self I am getting ready to take care of. I have surgery on the 25th of June and I am so excited!!
Lets chat!
Leslie
a person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it
HW 274/pre-op 266/NW210/GW160 5' 8"
Topic: RE: 60 days of sobriety
Congratulations Trish!!
I have been sober for 3 years, 8 months, 3 days....sorry could't help myself. I have been looking for alcoholics for a week now, not thinking to go to the mental health board. I know I am not well!! LOL>
Keep going Trish!! I am sure everyone with addictions will support you.
Leslie
I have been sober for 3 years, 8 months, 3 days....sorry could't help myself. I have been looking for alcoholics for a week now, not thinking to go to the mental health board. I know I am not well!! LOL>
Keep going Trish!! I am sure everyone with addictions will support you.
Leslie
a person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it
HW 274/pre-op 266/NW210/GW160 5' 8"
Topic: RE: Bi Polar and medications?!?!
Anytime Kathy. I am a licensed social worker, and had to present on psychopharmacology in a class in graduate school. I also do group therapy in a psychiatric hospital part time. Like you, I don't give medical advice, but advise patients what questions to ask their doctors as you did.
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Topic: RE: Bi Polar and medications?!?!
Thanks for the back-up Trish, glad you are doing well!
Every morning in Africa
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning inAfrica
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.
RNY 2/9/09 Buh bye Gallbladder 8/28/09; 100% EWL (181 lbs.) on 2/19/10;
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.
RNY 2/9/09 Buh bye Gallbladder 8/28/09; 100% EWL (181 lbs.) on 2/19/10;
Topic: RE: Bi Polar and medications?!?!
Lash away. You posted a topic for discussion, and I responded based on my experience and knowledge base. No, I am not a social worker. I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and work closely with psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioner's (ARNP'S) for over years. Part of the course work, and requirements IS knowledge of psychopharmacology, particularly because of the testing, assessing, and monitoring of medications in an inpatient and outpatient setting. I am not representing myself as a M.D., which of course a psychiatrist is, again, just posting to your topic.
Every morning in Africa
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning inAfrica
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.
RNY 2/9/09 Buh bye Gallbladder 8/28/09; 100% EWL (181 lbs.) on 2/19/10;
It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in
It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle
when the sun comes up you'd better be running.
RNY 2/9/09 Buh bye Gallbladder 8/28/09; 100% EWL (181 lbs.) on 2/19/10;
Topic: RE: Bi Polar and medications?!?!
I had been on Lexapro and did all of my surgery weight loss while on it. I agree with Kathy, that the meds may cause some water retention, and increased appetite, but they do not actually cause the weight gain, eating causes it. I am also a clinical social worker and have been trained to work with clients. I am also formerly borderline personality and also bipolar.
Lashing out at Kathy is not helpful. I have been down the road you are traveling and now, almost three years out, can only share my experience. If your current psychiatrist does not know how the meds are going to work, then you have several choices. One is to find a psychiatrist who has experience with WLS patients. Two is to ask your psychiatrist to work with you while you learn what your body adjusts to and does not adjust to. Three, stay off meds and continue to lash out at the people here who are offering their experience and help.
Trish
Lashing out at Kathy is not helpful. I have been down the road you are traveling and now, almost three years out, can only share my experience. If your current psychiatrist does not know how the meds are going to work, then you have several choices. One is to find a psychiatrist who has experience with WLS patients. Two is to ask your psychiatrist to work with you while you learn what your body adjusts to and does not adjust to. Three, stay off meds and continue to lash out at the people here who are offering their experience and help.
Trish
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Topic: RE: Borderline personality disorder??
First of all, never feel like you are monopolizing the Mental Health Forum with your questions, that is what we are here for.
I have both BPD and Bipolar, and totally agree with Kathy. I have been in therapy for almost 20 years, with the same therapist, and have successfully been able to eliminate most of the behaviors and feelings that go with the disorder, except the abandonment thing. When first diagnosed, I had all but one of the criterion.
What has helped me is being on medications for symptom management, like depression and anxiety, and hard work in cognitive behavioral therapy. My therapist is the best I could possibly have.
Feel free to PM me if you have specific questions you want me to answer personally.
Hugs,
Trish
I have both BPD and Bipolar, and totally agree with Kathy. I have been in therapy for almost 20 years, with the same therapist, and have successfully been able to eliminate most of the behaviors and feelings that go with the disorder, except the abandonment thing. When first diagnosed, I had all but one of the criterion.
What has helped me is being on medications for symptom management, like depression and anxiety, and hard work in cognitive behavioral therapy. My therapist is the best I could possibly have.
Feel free to PM me if you have specific questions you want me to answer personally.
Hugs,
Trish
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Topic: RE: Bi Polar and medications?!?!
I mean no disrespect, but aren't you a social worker? last i checked that didn't require medical school. as for asking my psychiatrist that was already in the works. also i thought i would inform you of medication seeing as you seem to not understand or know much about what your talking. Lexapro for one. does tend to cause weight changes.which can include retain; water gains weight. hence if you read from this article you will find that weight changes is a side effect http://www.drugs.com/lexapro.html. Also from personal experience with being on several different medications for bi polar and bpd depakote can also cause weight gain. as you can see in this article http://www.drugs.com/depakote.html. and as for lithium doctors rarely prescribe this medication due to all the more sever side effects that can occur. one of which in high doses lithium can cause high amounts of toxins which lead to death. but now that i have schooled you. please i suggest if you want to give people your personal opinion that's fine. but that's all it is. your not a professional doctor. nor do i think unless you have been on several medications yourself do you qualify to speak about medications to people. thanks. 
Topic: ~SPIRITUAL NOT RELIGIOUS~ A DAY AT A TIME
06/07 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
Few of us are entirely free from a sense of guilt. We may feel guilty because of our words or actions, or for things left undone. We may even feel guilty because of irrational or false accusations by others. When I'm troubled by a gnawing feeling of guilt, obviously I can't put into my day all I'm capable of. So I must rid myself of guilt -- not by pushing it aside, or ignoring it, but by identifying it and correcting the cause. HAVE I FINALLY BEGUN TO LEARN TO "KEEP IT SIMPLE.." ?
TODAY I PRAY
May I learn not to let myself be "guilted," made to feel guilty when I don't consider that I am. Since I doubtless have the dregs of guilt left over from my addictive behavior, I do not need the extra burden of unreasonable blame laid on me. I count on God to help me sort out and get rid of these twinges and pangs of guilt, which whether justified or not, need to be recognized and unloaded.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
The verdict of guilty is not for life.
Few of us are entirely free from a sense of guilt. We may feel guilty because of our words or actions, or for things left undone. We may even feel guilty because of irrational or false accusations by others. When I'm troubled by a gnawing feeling of guilt, obviously I can't put into my day all I'm capable of. So I must rid myself of guilt -- not by pushing it aside, or ignoring it, but by identifying it and correcting the cause. HAVE I FINALLY BEGUN TO LEARN TO "KEEP IT SIMPLE.." ?
TODAY I PRAY
May I learn not to let myself be "guilted," made to feel guilty when I don't consider that I am. Since I doubtless have the dregs of guilt left over from my addictive behavior, I do not need the extra burden of unreasonable blame laid on me. I count on God to help me sort out and get rid of these twinges and pangs of guilt, which whether justified or not, need to be recognized and unloaded.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
The verdict of guilty is not for life.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
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