Helping a friend in need.

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Originally Posted by LotusElise

It sounds like she has really had enough and wants to be helped - that's always the first step, and the hardest.

Medication does do funny things to people, but once she's used to it and the doctor has decided an appropriate dosage, she'll probably seem more like herself. Patients are sometimes started on a higher dose of mood-stabilising meds than they would have during their "maintenance" phase.

You sound like a great friend, and please look after yourself, too. Don't neglect your other friendships, and find some time to do things you enjoy as well.

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I couldn't agree more.

She has only been on medication for a week, but she is much worse now than she was.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

She has only been on medication for a week, but she is much worse now than she was.

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It's very difficult to know what to say to that without having any clinical/pharmaceutical knowledge. It is early days, yet your concern is totally understandable.

From the very little I do know about this kind of medicine, is that it can take quite a while to kick in well, say a fortnight. If she carries on being worse, she'd best go back to the doctor's

She's finally going to therapy tomorrow, and I'm taking her.

She went to a teacher at college on Monday to hand in 10packets of aspirin that she had in her bag :s