Hi @
msj288 and fellow PR friends,
I wanted to chime in because I learned something from a fellow friend here on our forum that might help some of you, too. There is a book called
The Opiate Cure written by Robert T Cochran, MD and the book is utterly amazing. I don't want to advocate additional medicine because I'm not a medical doctor, but I did want to pass along this info.. in hopes that it will bring some of you an alternative form of relief.
The books is about stories of Dr Cochran's patients who happened to have bipolar depression and mania, ADD, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and narcolepsy. His studies showed that his patients were responding wonderfully to opiates being added to their routines. I do not want to advocate the use of opiates if you don't have to take them (I'm forced to as a PM patient and being dependent on any type of medicine is a double - edge sword... because 1)it almost gives us our lives back, but 2) we truly, genuinely need them albeit the judgment received by the general public and the lack of support I happen to get from my own doctors.
Anyways, I didn't mean to get on a rant about being judged (I don't judge and wish others wouldn't - but that's why I depend on my PR friends for support - the support I cannot get from people in my 'physical world').
But, Dr Cochran's book discusses insights and hope for those of us who suffer from any of the aforementioned disorders. My heart and prayers go out to all of you ... I truly understand where you are coming from.