Can bipolar affective disorder cause you to stop taking your medicine?
Monday, June 28th, 2010 at
8:39 am
I am bipolar and know I should be taking my medicine for it, but my medicine made me sick. I got it straightened out with my psychiatrist, but for some reason I still refuse to take it. I tell myself I should and I’m not doing well, but my mind still refuses to take it. Is it strictly a lack of initiative, or can bipolar cause my fear or refusal of medicine?
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Lots of mentally ill refuse to take their meds, for various reasons. The problem is nobody can force you to. But if you don’t, you have psychotic episodes, to you terrible in school and at work, you get yourself in trouble for acting out, etc. etc. etc.
So, the best thing to do is to take your meds.
I don’t think its your bipolar I am to, I take my meds I didn’t like to at first then I realized I would get back to where I was if I didn’t . Or you get to a point of feeling well on your meds that you think you are OK and stop taking them. If you are worried about side effects talk to your psych. no one can make you take them but you should