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MeecieCasual Contributor
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MoonGalSenior Contributor
Hi @Meecie - what adifficult situation you are in, being employed as a Nurse in a small town at the onlyhospital with the city/town 3 hours away, you are caught between a rock and a hard place.
New medications sometimes ratchet me through the stratosphere or plunge me into the deep abyss. On some occasisons of starting a new nmedcation ihave lost ALL INSIGHT into my own mental health and wandered about for weeks or months. It is good that you have insight that the new medications are causing trouble for you. Could you perhaps write down what is happeneing on them? Then when you see the Doctor you have a concrete thing in front of you to say what is happeneing, how they are affecting you and what that is doing to your ability to think, work etc.
Number one thing is to stabilise as fast as you can, it sounds like these meds are causing more problems than they are helping?
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pipSenior Contributor
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MeecieCasual Contributor
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AppleblossomSenior Contributor
Hi @Meecie I am glad your doctor is decent and professional. It is a huge commitment and effort to manage a large family and a professional career, women do not get enough kudos for that.
I was really sad to see you posted in a way that suggested at least someone implied you were making "excuses".
I am quite familiar with small town social dynamics. In many ways they can be very conservative and gossipy. My brother's tragedy started in a small town and a small hospital with the birth of his son. We loved him but his in-laws could not. They feel a bit guilty and have apologised and their attitudes are slowly changing. (taken 30 years)
I dont advise putting yourself on a cross to achieve social change. Protect yourself. Try and find on-line support and maybe look for a good long term therapist in the flesh ... who you might only see every 3 months or so ... but can become part of your support network away from the hub of your family and professional life.
Apple
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