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Anhedonia

My psychiatrist, Luke, lowered my lithium dose from 900mg to 600mg. Since then, I’ve been struggling with depression and anhedonia. I just feel tired and numb. I’m not sure if it’s because of the reduction in lithium or if it’s because of a normal cycle in mood. Maybe it’s because my fun summer of guiding…

Lithium

I’m writing about my medication, Lithium. My doctor and I are tapering me off lithium. I’m currently on Abilify injectable, Lamictal, and Lithium for bipolar disorder. We went from 1200mg of lithium to 900 about six months ago. Now we are lowering it down to 600mg, intending to eliminate it from my medications altogether. The…

Stable?

Bipolar has been very low on my list of concerns lately. My biggest concern has been what fly to tie onto the end of my line. I’ve been in my favorite place in the whole world, Dutch John, UT, guiding and fly fishing the Green River below Flaming Gorge Reservoir. There has been some family…