Lithium & Paxil

What's it like to forget to take psychiatric meds?

• Dizziness
• Brain freeze (i.e., imagine moving your head and it taking awhile for your brain to catch up)
• Heart palpitation
• Ear Ringing
• Insomnia
• Dreaming

What kind of dreams do I have when I forget my meds?

• I need massive amounts of water ... Poland Spring Water to be exact.
• My mother and I have a coherent conversation about my life!!!
• My partner David and I vacation at a Grecian style hotel where there is a huge pool encircling and flowing through the room. Our visit is cut short by the arrival of the Polka Music King and Queen (?)
  
• I find a kitten, a beautiful little kitten that someone has taken a knife to, her genitals have been butchered. The bleeding kitten dies in my hands.

I take the meds faithfully, except on the rare occasion that I forget. Do I believe that the Lithium helps with the bipolar? I suppose, the medical professionals tell me it does, David tells me there has been a change. Yet these same med people tell me that even with Lithium I will experience bouts with the bipolar. Sometimes I wonder if Tom Cruise knows what he is talking about.