I want to be ME!
Updated March 24, 2015.
That's what Laurel B, a member of our Forums, posted yesterday morning. Laurel is worried that taking her medications will cause her to lose all her creativity. Part of her post reads: "The problem is I have this HUGE fear that if I take the medications they want me to take for my bipolar disorder it will take away my creativity. I told my psychotherapist I don't want to be just like everyone else, I want to be me.
Of course when I said this I was bawling my eyes out because I had bottomed out and crashed."
Member Hawke replied pointing Laurel to our Bipolar Bar & Grill Forum. The Creative Expressions topic there is filled with wonderful works from people who do take meds.
This was never something I worried about, perhaps because I had, and have, more non-creative depression than creative hypomania. I hoped that medications would give me back my creativity - and I feel that they have, at least to a degree.
How about you? Were you afraid meds would affect your creativity? How did it turn out?
~Marcia
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Laurel B's Forum Post: I want to be me!
That's what Laurel B, a member of our Forums, posted yesterday morning. Laurel is worried that taking her medications will cause her to lose all her creativity. Part of her post reads: "The problem is I have this HUGE fear that if I take the medications they want me to take for my bipolar disorder it will take away my creativity. I told my psychotherapist I don't want to be just like everyone else, I want to be me.
Of course when I said this I was bawling my eyes out because I had bottomed out and crashed."
Member Hawke replied pointing Laurel to our Bipolar Bar & Grill Forum. The Creative Expressions topic there is filled with wonderful works from people who do take meds.
This was never something I worried about, perhaps because I had, and have, more non-creative depression than creative hypomania. I hoped that medications would give me back my creativity - and I feel that they have, at least to a degree.
How about you? Were you afraid meds would affect your creativity? How did it turn out?
~Marcia
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Learn more or join the conversation!
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Laurel B's Forum Post: I want to be me!