Better Living Through Chemistry
As you know if you've read this blog, I had a bit of a mental health set back a few weeks ago. I had something of a nervous breakdown and have had to take some time away from work due to the breakdown occurring at work. I won't say the breakdown was exactly work related, but an event there triggered the breakdown that was building over the course of the previous month or so. As near as I can tell, my illness jumped the curb and caused something akin to Bipolar 2 where a person swings not from manic to depressed but from a hypomanic state. On my upswings I merely felt "normal" but the downswings were... horrible. But two weeks ago my GP added Abilify (amipiprazole) to my antidepressants and things started to improve. I could visit social media and not trigger those downswings, I could read and reply if I wanted to and rather then rage spiral at the worst of it, I could simply back away and regroup. I've even gotten a note from my doctor to return gradually to