Don’t stop taking them
By C
@ShyBear88 (59342)
Sterling, Virginia
August 28, 2019 9:06am CST
My husband got in trouble with me over the weekend. I noticed he started acting more angry then normal and when he gets that way it bother me. I know he has been stressed with his grandmother being so very sick and her not knowing who we all are. He hates seeing her that way but he doesn’t need to be a jerk about it. So I told him to take a chill bill and check himself.
Well a couple of nights ago he went to work and texted me saying he was sorry and he was bad. He stopped taking his mood stabilizers telling me he felt good, was happy and just stopped taking them. Which is a BIG NO! He told me to not yelling at him. Okay find I won’t yell but I was mad at him. He knows he has to take those pills it’s a life long thing and he should stop because he feels good. Then the stress started up which means no meds means he starting thinking and doing things he shouldn’t do.
Which him admitting it he promised not to again. I told him not to make me count his meds. He made an appointment to see his mental health provider. Set Daily reminders for his meds. Which should be mood stabilizers, and anxiety medication. You’d think a mental health clinical tech would know not to stop his meds, but the dummy was being a dummy.
If you have medication please remember don’t stop because you feel better either take the amount give to you, or as directed by your doctor. You take medication for any mental health reason please do not stop unless you have talked to your doctor sudden changes in stopping cause mood swings and some times other things.
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
28 Aug 19
I have met people who stopped taking their medication without talking to a doctor first, and they learned the hard way that it was a really bad idea. In many cases people stop because they are feeling well, and they think that they are able to live without the medication, but it is something we should always discuss with a doctor first.
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
28 Aug 19
@ShyBear88 It is a good thing you noticed it before it got even worse. I haven't tried mood stabilizers, but I take antidepressants and I know that I can't manage without them.
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
@Porcospino mood stabilizers are for people with bipolar it helps with mood swings to regulate there moods so they feel what they are suppose to feel.
@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
Yep, that’s what it was like for my husband. He felt good and happy for a good while like over a year and then decided to stop taking it couldn’t have been very longer but long enough for me to noticed a changed in the wya he acted to tell him to chill.
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
29 Aug 19
Yes that is what I told him. He knows that as a medical clinic himself that works with mental ill patients daily. He was being a dummy like normal.
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
Yep, exactly! I want him to feel his true emotions when they happen I don’t want a big explosion of angry or sadness out of no where.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
28 Aug 19
It is very importsnt that people don´t quit taking their pills, specially if they are for mood changes. Those patients tend to think they don´t need them any longer, but it is precisely because they are taking them. My eldest daughter, who is bipolar, has had to learn this the hard way.
@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
28 Aug 19
@ShyBear88 It can be very dangerous as you go back to the beginning, as feeling bad goes.
@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
@marguicha it takes a few days to feel normal again. This is like day 3-4 so the change should start to happen of feeling more clear and what he should be really feeling. I expect him to feel sad about his grandmother
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@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
Yes, I think my husband just learned that as well. It’s great he was feeling good but that’s not a good enough reason to stop taking them without seeing his own mental health providers. Some times he forgets to take one which is fine but it taking to for weeks it’s going have an affected. Which also explains why he hasn’t been as tired at bed time because he didn’t take his meds.
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@Mavic123456 (21891)
• Thailand
28 Aug 19
thanks for the reminder. good heavens that I am not into medication for a life long thing. Can he not just walk away if he is angry, I mean he knows what his problem is anyway.
@ShyBear88 (59342)
• Sterling, Virginia
28 Aug 19
When your bipolar you can’t just switch off how you feel. His body doesn’t make the chemicals all of the time for him to realize hey I’m angry I need to back off. With a mood stabilizers when he is angry then he knows it’s not a sudden out of no where or a suddenly sad for no reason. That’s why it’s a mental health condition.
