Shannon McDowell – One More Voice in Cyberspace

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   Ross, on September 27th, 2008 at 7:33 pm Said:

   Hi Shannon, this is very interesting, I saw you over in EzineArticles and felt compelled to read your story. I was diagnosed bipolar II some 23 years ago and cope quite well. It got so frustrating trying to explain about me but I so wanted people to know. That possessed me to write the story in my site listed here.

   Wanted to share more so I joined a bipolar forum at http://login.about.com Now I don’t know if you are interested in a forum or not. If you could use support or want to share, you are welcome to come join us. It is a wonderful group of people who share freely.

   If not that is fine but feel free to contact me if you care to.

   This is a great idea, I am just getting into blogs and never considered doing a bipolar blog. Now I can see it is a viable thing.

   Thank You
   Ross

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   Tired, on November 2nd, 2008 at 11:53 pm Said:

   I have been on xanax, 0.5 , 5 x a day since 1998 following a bad divorce and custody fight. Before that, never drank, smoked, nothing…

   I started off back then at a minimal dose, but as the years went by it was bumped up until a year ago when I was at 5 tablets daily.

   I myself decided I was tired of being on them. With the support and encouragement of an awesome doctor, I began my slow and gradual taper and kicked two of the tablets in a year.

   Now down to three. Awesome doctor retires at the clinic I go to, and I’m handed to another who has a hate for xanax, and refused to refill my script again.
   Without the option to taper. She treated me like I was a junkie trying to score drugs with her, when any doctor could look at my pharmacy records and see I was always responsible with my medication.

   I had to literally beg this doctor to allow me to continue my taper. So she gave me a script for 2 tablets daily, totally knocking off that third tablet, not giving me the chance for a gradual taper.

   The past week has been a living hell. I cannot function. I cannot take this lexapro they want me to take, since it just makes me feel sicker. I called and begged them to please let me go back to doing a gradual taper. But nope, no mercy for me. I have a daughter that depends on me.

   I finally gave up earlier tonight and had a glass of wine. Thank God the internal shaking and mind racing went away.

   I even hate the smell and taste of alcohol, but that is what I am reduced to in order to function.

   I’m angry that I have GAD and PTSD and they just…don’t care what happens to me.

   I’m going to a “free clinic” because I cannot afford to go anywhere else. Free = take whatever you can get and pray you get treated like a human being.

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   Aivarsons, on November 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pm Said:

   Hi here!
   I recently had the pleasure the see the movie Five Across The Eyes. There was this one grate song. If I am not mistaken it is called Night Of Our Lives. I tried to find it somewhere, and the only place where google was able to find it was in some your blog in blog.360.yahoo.com . Unfortunately the song was no longer available there
   So I was really hoping we could contact somehow if you would be able to send me that song.
   Try contacting me through the e-mail: aivarsons@tvnet.lv
   Good luck!
   Aivarsons.

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