There’s reason to look forward to the future—just ask folks who’ve been there.
. Though she and her psychiatrist are “still trying to find a perfect fit” with her treatment plan, Lukosius is hopeful. “I am happy that I got the help that I needed. [My doctors] brought me back to reality.”As a teenager, Felisha Lord was particularly hotheaded. “I got enraged and angry,” she tells SELF. “I would break things in the house.”
Just as quickly as her rage bubbled up, it dipped into depression. “I couldn’t figure out what I was feeling and why,” she recalls, adding that she struggled with self-harm. Those highs and lows stayed with Lord throughout her 20s and 30s and came to a head when she was 36. After Lord got into a physical fight with her then fiancé, he gave her an ultimatum: Get help or leave.
She eventually found a therapist who diagnosed her with bipolar I “right away,” which she had mixed feelings about. “I was relieved that I knew what was [affecting my mood] after all these years, but a part of me resented that I would need to take a pill for the rest of my life,” Lord says. But once she started taking an antipsychotic medication, she realized how great the right treatment could make her feel. “It made me mellow,” Lord explains. “I was finally able to regulate my emotions.”, overall Lord is happy with the track she’s on. “My relationships are better,” she says. “It’sTabitha Connelly George was diagnosed with bipolar I in 1997 when she was in middle school.
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