What medications are commonly used in treatment?
—————————————– First, we’ll lead off this section with an excellent introduction, written by Joy Ikelman (parrot@frii.com) , with additions by Dr. Ivan Goldberg (psydoc@netcom.com): ********************************** Ten Little Things I Have Learned About Drug Therapy (1) We believe what we want to believe (about this topic or any topic). (2) We bipolars know how it feels to be on these drugs–despite what the docs might say about how we “should” feel. Side effects are often more complex and difficult than the drug companies/PDR say they are. (3) We bipolars know that the cycles sometimes break through despite the best of drug therapies–even though docs say we “should” be completely stable on this stuff. A lot of the time we just keep quiet when these breakthrough episodes happen or else the doc might raise our dose or hospitalize us. (See Item 2.) (4) We all hope to be the lucky ones in this crap shoot of drug therapy. Initially, we are optimistic. Maybe if
