Shift83Senior Contributor
Help!
Hi everyone,
So, the last month has been quite the rollercoaster.
After doing an ADHD assessment, I was told I most likely have bipolar. (Not the first time I have heard this.)
They started me on [medication name removed by moderators], but I was getting really itchy on it and having some bad side effects, so I stopped taking it and waited for another appointment with a free community health centre psychiatrist.
She literally said, "Oh, after five minutes I can tell you have ADHD." Great, thanks. What can you do? Nothing. Anyway, they gave me something else, which I have not started yet because of what has happened over the last week.
I was lying in bed and woke up with a fright, my heart racing like I was having a bad dream or something. I picked up my phone to scroll, then started having these vivid flashbacks or visions that were not even mine. I started feeling really sick and dizzy, wanted to vomit, and broke out in sweats. It was really, really scary. To have a vision, a dream, or a false memory was terrifying, especially because of the way I physically reacted to it. After a while, I worked out they were not really memories, but I was—and still am—so confused about where they came from.
I put it down to having a cold at the time, but yesterday it happened again in woolies, I was picking out bread, and then again, a flashback/memory/vision. What ever the F it is happened, the bread started moving back and forth, i had a massive wave of sickness, I was dizzy. And then kept seeing this thing in my head that I was trying to work out what it was.... Wether it's real, or a dream? Has anyone ever experianced anything like this?
It's not anxeity, yes I have that really bad. this is next level. I rang the doctors and put me on the drug I hate most [medication name removed by moderators]. But just had a low dose to sleep and calm.
