Has anyone with mental illness ever been told their illness has "progressed!


Question: Has anyone with mental illness ever been told their illness has "progressed" or gotten worse?
At my intake process today I didnt know this but she had my records from all the years back I'd been there to compare where i was and where i am now and apparently I have gotten worse than before. Hallucinating more and now my illness significantly impairs my ability to function at a job and in public. She (psychologist) said she's bothered by it and I qualify for the highest level of psychosocial rehabilitation with supported work rehab to help when I do get a job since I can't hold a job. I am diagnosed bipolar but she said it seems the illness has grown more, i didnt even know that could happen

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It is well known that Bipolar gets worse with time.... happens to almost everyone with Bipolar. I have Bipolar 1 and 46 years old and never had trouble managing my job very well but in the last few years I have deteriorated so much I am considering applying for disability.... my memory and ability to focus have just gone down the toilet, my psychosis and manic episodes are worse and more frequent..... That's life with Bipolar.



This free 97 page ebook on bipolar disorders should help you.

http://forwebresources.com/ebooks/bipolar-disorders.html



Most mental illnesses do get worse if untreated or undertreated. Up your meds.



This certainly happened to me, but in my case, I know that the meds themselves caused this. I took prozac, which made me really manic for several months, and I never recovered from it, and went on disability pretty soon afterwards. Then I tried all these meds to try to recover so i could go back to work, and for 15 years, just got worse and worse and more and more suicidal. I had this intense feeling inside me that I had to claw my face off or cut my chest open with a knife or stab myself with my sewing scissors. I got labeled borderline, or sometimes the docs would say this problem was just my bipolar problems. I even got ECT, I was so desperate, and that experience was extremely traumatizing and I still get upset about it 6 years later.

Anyway, after 15 years of useless treatment that usually seemed to make me worse, I decided along with my husband and doctor to just give up on the meds. After 4 months, I got a LOT better - the internal grinding feeling, the agitation, just. . .went AWAY. It was gradual, but one day, i realized, hey, this is GONE! I am still very depressed, still disabled, but now i don't have to kill myself anymore, which I had planned it for this April (I was giving my husband one last good year, going fishing etc. a lot, before I ended my life). So now it is 10 months since I quit my pills, and now I have patched the holes in the wall upstairs that I kicked when I was on my pills, fixing up a room I've not been able to work on for the 10 years I've lived here, etc.

so anyway, consider if it could be your meds. Your doc and other workers will never blame the meds, but my brother and I are like this, there are many anecdotal stories like ours, and after I quit the meds, I read a book called Anatomy of an Epidemic, and it turns out there are MANY people like my brother and I. The meds aren't that great, they really aren't, for a lot of people.

Good luck in any case.

It's considered that bipolar will worsen without treatment, but it's unclear if the real issue is that people take meds and then go off them, and their brain is no longer the same, because of the treatment itself.

madinamerica.com is an interesting website if you have concerns your meds could be the problem. It was not obvious that the meds were the cause of my problems! I was a geophysics PhD student who got kicked out of school due to bipolar, and I didn't figure it out until I ran out of treatment options. so don't discount this idea out of hand.



not only was i told i had progressed they told me i had developed skitz. they put me on stronger med and when i take it literally all i can do is sit there and honestly ( told them this, but they see to think i'm a lier) it makes my hallucinations worse. more often and intense. for example my dog came up to me and them her face started melting and i could see her flesh dropping to the ground! but i couldn't scream or move or grab her or anything 'cause the f**king pills turn me into a zombie.
i've killed a cat before because of my hallucinations, it's f**ked up as h*ll.
but yeah as for the question, it's not suppost to increase while on medication, but yeah, obviouslly it does, even gets worse for some people. flahh.




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