Hello! Brief recap of the events over the past few months in regards to my mental health:
- Started experiencing anxiety through breathing issues and chest pains in mid-August
- Started Zoloft on October 15th + or - 5 days.
- Depressive episode for the first 4 weeks, 50 mg a day
- Upped dose to 100 mg on around Nov 13th and began to experience major insomnia
- Blacked out from Nov 15th to Nov 25th during a 10-day manic episode that took me from New York to New Hampshire
- Experienced a 2nd manic episode after Thanksgiving, this time only for 3 hours on Nov 28th (?) or so, the day after Black Friday
- Checked into Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles same day, released the day after on Sunday morning
- Switched to Olanzapine that Sunday, 5 mg a day
- Started Lamotrigine in addition to Olanzapine on Dec. 8th (a Monday or so)
- Currently doing extremely well. Sleeping, eating, exercising, destressing well, and up to 156 pounds, up from 138 pounds. Hoping to reach a healthy weight of 160 before I start a more intensive(/regular) exercise schedule to get stronger
Thanks for all of your support folks!
