diagnosed for the second time

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after being used as a guinea pig for psychiatric medication for the majority of 2008. i suppose it was partially my fault for admitting myself to the hospital, but i've been on a ton of different meds since june, and none have helped. so, i sought a second opinion after my hair started falling out and my weight ballooned.

2/3 doctors agree that i have aspergers. the only one who diagnosed me with bipolar was a psychiatrist (also the pill pusher). i'm now trying to reduce my dosage and come off meds completely (aside from klonopin).

i asked the people over at crazymeds and they just bitched at me. apparently they don't condone talk of going against doctor's orders. but i don't think i fit in there.

i haven't left my apartment, aside from today, in two weeks. i don't think i fit in anywhere, and i'm starting to care less and less about quality of life, and living itself.

This is exactly why I don't take psychmeds. They cause more harm than good for the majority of people. The fact your hair is falling out suggests the crazymed has messed up your thyroid hormones and made you hypthyroid which will make hair fall out. Are your eyelashes falling out too? That's a sure sign of hypothyroid. So also is being lethargic and loosing interest in life.

My advise to you is stay away from psychiatrists because they are nothing but pill pushers and most do not provide good cognitive therapy. Go to a phD psychologist. As my psychologist said most psychiatrists are not people persons and have terrible social skills.

it's due to the lithium i am taking. i take selenium and zinc to help with that problem but it's a slow process to come off meds and if i don't want kidney failure/withdrawal symptoms then i have to take it slow.

Geech...that's some nasty stuff then. Be careful coming off of it. I'm assuming you've done your research on how to safely. I hate psychmeds because they almost killed my best friend last year when it caused her kidney failure. They took her off the crap when they figured it out and she started getting better. Even still I think you should get a blood panel run on your thyroid hormones. If you are low thyroid you will feel better getting replacement hormones. I use a natural thyroid replacement made out of dessicated pig gland called Westhroid. Its still prescription by the way. It helps more than the synthetic replacements.

I don't know if your meds have anything to do with your current outlook, but I stopped taking mine over a decade ago after a scary experience with Effexor. I've never felt so close to artificially angry, almost violent, as that stuff made me feel. Since then, I can't help wondering whether meds really just impose artificial states of being on a person. That maybe, even if they seem to help, they're really just indiscriminately suppressing or exaggerating parts of you, good and bad.

If you were more active at one point in your life, it will feel really good to get out and go for a walk.
I've been on Seroquel and Abilify twice, but have refused to take any psych drugs for at least four years now.
I devoted myself to natural mental progression, and I then identified with AS, once I had heard about it, and read Attwood's Complete Guide to Asperger's.
You know, I may not even have it, but right now, it just makes a ton of sense.
I have visual and audio hallucinogenic issues, social digression, major depressive disorder symptoms, anxiety to agoraphobia, overly observant logic, lack of relationships, apathy to peers, highly focused work ethic, but a lack of motivation. Plus, I'm gifted, and I don't reason with the idea that I'm not the kind of person people would want to be friends with, they just don't, and I also really just don't care. Get off drugs, drink a beer or some wine, and figure out why you are thinking the s**t you think without hurting yourself. I figure both my parents are loony, Aspergerish as*holes who are weak sexist freaks, and I'm a combination of genes and ignorant upbringing.