Appointments

I saw my therapist yesterday and my psychiatrist today.

I made the appointment with my therapist last week when I was having the anxiety. I wanted to see him to help stop the issue snowballing. And even though the anxiety went away I decided to keep the appointment because he had said at our last appointment in November that we should stay in touch some way. The session was good. We talked about the anxiety and he said pretty much the same thing that I came to, that only a small amount of the worries I had were valid. And he said some of the worries were good worries to have. We talked about the episode a few weeks ago with the ups and downs. He was concerned about the level of rapid cycling. Concerned about my bipolar getting worse. I need to be careful if this happens again. We talked about if I was going to keep coming back. I told him that even though I don’t need to come as often as I was, I would like to still come in once in a while. He agreed that was good and said if I had another episode and needed an emergency appointment he would fit me in his schedule.

My appointment with the psychiatrist today was also good. Like all psychiatry appointments it was very short. He asked if I wanted to keep my meds the same as I have been doing so well. And while that makes sense, I wanted to change my mood stabilizer. The one I’ve been taking for two years causes acne and I’m just sick of it. Unfortunately that was the only mood stabilizer that pretty much guaranteed no weight gain. So we’ve decided to come off the mood stabilizer completely. The antipsychotic I’m on should be acting as a mood stabilizer especially for manic symptoms. So I’ll stay on that and the antidepressant and see how this goes. He said if I start having bad episodes again I should go back on it and treat the acne in some way. I’m happy with the plan.

Hope everyone is well. I’m going to get back to school work now. Jazz history… fun stuff.