The Problem With How We Treat Bipolar Disorder

[Tobin S.]

1. I had the problem of obliteration of the self when I first began being treated, as well.

I have to take an anti-depressant, a mood stabilizer, and an anti-psychotic for my bipolar disorder. And it truly is my bipolar disorder. The illness affects everyone differently and often requires different medications at different dosages. The anti-psychotic I take at the dosage I take I've known to reduce other people to incoherency, but the drug restores me to functionality and revives my true self.

I think great advances have been made in psychiatric medication over the past twenty years. Side effects have been reduced, and advances have been made on the problem the author speaks of in the article. But problems still persist and it will probably be a long time before treatment of mental health issues becomes simpler. It might always be complicated.