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aeylania Posts: 647
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What's your favorite movie/tv show/book to read/watch when you're feeling your worst? My favorite tv show is any of the Star Treks, but especially The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. My favorite movie is Sweeney Todd (with Johnny Depp) or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. My favorite books to read when I'm feeling bad is anything by Nora Roberts, as its wonderful to just turn off my brain and delve into a reality where true love is possible and can sweep you away and happily ever after ALWAYS happens. JD Robbs (still nora roberts tho) if I feel like some action to take my mind off my problems. Stephen King if I'm feeling particularly bad and need something a little darker yet still familiar and comforting (started reading him when I was twelve, and I've read It so many times I practically have it memorized). Soo... what's yours? Everything I post is merely my opinion and should not to be construed as medical advice. I am not a doctor or a licensed therapist.
Bipolar I? (currently NOS but haven't been evaluated since last severe manic episode)
ADHD, PTSD, GAD
Abilify 30 mg Effexor XR 225 mg Trileptal 450 mg
"In my life, I have seen,
People walk into the sea,
Just to find memories,
Plagued by constant misery,
Their eyes cast down,
Fixed upon the ground,
Their eyes cast down
I'll keep my eyes fixed on the sun" -Cage the Elephant
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bfly Posts: 4061
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Okay, I'm cheesy- but when I'm down and depressed- I change it up a lot- but of late- It's zoo keeper, night at the museum, and my favorite Bridesmaids! I need slapstick and stupid to redirect my thinkinga---- I can get really dark and that's never good. Okay- all I got- good post! Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Kahlil Gibran
"The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." Carl Jung
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” Leo F. Buscaglia
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
Robert Frost
"God doesn't give us more than we can handle, I just think He overestimates my strength!" lol- me
Bipolar I, PTSD, Bulimia, Anxiety, Fibromyalgia
Lithium 1500 mg; Lamictal 400mg; Busparone 60 mg; Armour Thyroid 30; Visteril as needed |
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thecatisis Posts: 45
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When I get down in the dumps, I go to my 2 trusty friends, Phantom of the Opera (the most recent version) or King Kong (Also the most recent version) I cry at the end of both and let it all out. Feel better after that. TV show wise I like to get lost in NCIS reruns. Book wise I like Mira Grant. You can't rush science, Gibbs! You can yell at it and scream at it, but you can't rush it.
--Abby Sciuto
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aeylania Posts: 647
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Ahhh I love Phantom of the Opera. I really like musicals in general, though. Everything I post is merely my opinion and should not to be construed as medical advice. I am not a doctor or a licensed therapist.
Bipolar I? (currently NOS but haven't been evaluated since last severe manic episode)
ADHD, PTSD, GAD
Abilify 30 mg Effexor XR 225 mg Trileptal 450 mg
"In my life, I have seen,
People walk into the sea,
Just to find memories,
Plagued by constant misery,
Their eyes cast down,
Fixed upon the ground,
Their eyes cast down
I'll keep my eyes fixed on the sun" -Cage the Elephant |
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rodey Posts: 136
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This might sound cliche but I LOVE What About Bob. I watch that movie at least once a week. I am also obsessed with classic literature, especially the Bronte sisters. I re-read Jane Eyre when I start to feel weird. That's the best book ever. ~Rose~
I'm not bipolar, I HAVE bipolar. My disease does not define me!
Mixed Bipolar, rapid cycling (several times a day)
ADHD
GAD
Geodon 40mg at night
Trileptal 300mg twice a day
Straterra 18mg mornings
Klonopin 0.5mg as needed - rare these days! :) |
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centerseeker Posts: 2852
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I love to watch endless reruns of House or Deep Space Nine. If I am very numb Everybody Loves Raymond because the plots are so uncomplicated and easy to follow. For movies I love Labrynth for it's great personal nostalgia and Groundhog Day for reasons I can't explain. I used to when depressed obsessively read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and I Never Promised You A Rose Garden by Joane Greenberg (pretty sure I am spelling her name wrong and too lazy to look it up). I liked that the female characters in these reflected my feelings. Then I decided they were feeding my bad moods. So now my 'comfort' reading is Anne Tyler or Anna Quinland. I banished the other two from my bookshelf. They both were ragged from rereading anyway. Ps: How can I forget I used to read Girl, Interrupted too. I decided that was another one that fed the depression though so that had to go too. Post edited by: centerseeker, at: 05/17/2012 12:40 PM "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanore Roosevelt
"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." Jack Kornfield
"My goal in life is to be the person my dogs think I am" anonymous
bipolar/ADD
Depakote 1250 mg
Cymbalta 120 mg
propranolol 20 mg
geoden 160
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Cthebird Posts: 2609
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I must confess that my favorite TV show is Cops (Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do...). There are so many wonderful movies that I can't choose between them. I guess I can say that I became obsessed with Pride and Predjudice for a while, but I don't think that is my favorite. Presumed Innocent was one of my favorite books, although I love reading poetry of Walt Whitman, P.B. Shelley, Yeats & Keats. I could go on. Bipolar 1, Simple Partial Seizures, and migraines
Psychiatric meds:
Lithium ER (900 mg)*Tegretol XR (1400 mg)*Lamictal (100 mg)*Geodon (160 mg)*Navane (5 mg)*Seroquel XR (100 mg)*Klonopin (.5 mg)
Ativan 1 mg "as needed" (I rarely take it.)*Seroquel regular 50 mg "as needed" (Only if I'm getting elevated.)
Other meds:
Propranolol (40 mg)*Levothyroxine (150 mcg)
My mix is side effect friendly for me. |
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WitchWay Posts: 121
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Hmmmm. Movies - The Mummy is my absolute fave! I'm in absolute heaven if SyFy is having a natural disaster movie day. A Knight's Tale is also a fave. Oh.. and Practical Magic! TV - Bones reruns, America's Funniest Videos, and Grey's Anatomy Books - Anything by Nora Roberts or Piers Anthony 
Post edited by: WitchWay, at: 05/17/2012 12:53 PM "The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible." -Author Unknown
-- Current Psych DX --
Bipolar II
Borderline Personality Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
-- Current Psych RX --
Klonopin 1mg
Cymbalta 60mg
Seroquel 200mg |
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ZadieBlue Posts: 3767
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Star Wars trilogy / The Big Bang Theory, King of Queens. "I'm going to quit -- dried turkey." - Anonymous
"I forgot my mantra." - Annie Hall
"Knocked me on the head and sent me spinning
It was a blast I can't remember the last time
Stand between two poles and hold your arms up
I'll kick me over your head and stock down . . . " - Throwing Muses
Female, age 37
Bipolar I (mild)
• Episodes / cycling happen most often during Spring and Fall allergy season; some dissociation possible during episodes.
• GAD dx 12/11, PTSD traits, ED (in recovery)
• Boarding school survivor :)
PSYCH:
Adderall 15 mg x 2 • Prozac 40 mg • Ativan 1.5 mg • Geodon 120 mg • Starting Lithium again
(Levothyroxine 50 mcg • Atenolol 12.5 mg x 2 • Clonidine 0.1 mg x 3).
ALLERGY / ASTHMA -- (Winter / Spring cocktail): Levocetirizine • Alvesco HFA 160 mcg • Ketotifen Fumarate PRN • Flovent • ProAir PRN
Mercy Buckets to everyone!!! |
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