Will anything ever bring the early magic back?

[Sunflower]

50mg. We'll see. The Wellbutrin was supposed to be for nicotine which didn't work but it turned out it did wonders for my mood when used with buspirone. The sema helped with the nicotine, I'm using almost none now it's mostly habit. I only just started it so I have no opinion on the nal yet, so far sema worked for alcohol by like 90%.

I honestly don't know, my pharmacy just kept not filling it for like five months then when my psych sent in a 90 day script instead now that she considers me Stable and Trustworthy (tm) all of a sudden they had it. I probably should have asked why, I would have happily just paid for it cash, I had to do that last year when my insurance wouldn't cover lamotrigine in anything less than 90 day supply.

WTF, like what do they think someone’s gonna do that’s dangerous/ shady with Naltrexone But yeah, I can empathize with the challenge of having to build “trust” with your psych. I’ve met all kinds of ignorant ones, but my current one is a psychedelic ketamine psychiatrist in Vermont (teleheath) so he’s surprisingly open minded!

Please keep us posted on your Nal experience—I am thankful Tirz fixed the food addiction, but struggling with residual mental “sticky/ disempowering thought” addictions and…Reddit. It seems like you’ve overcome 90+% of the physical dependencies, which is incredible.

 

[chmuse]

WTF, like what do they think someone’s gonna do that’s dangerous/ shady with Naltrexone But yeah, I can empathize with the challenge of having to build “trust” with your psych. I’ve met all kinds of ignorant ones, but my current one is a psychedelic ketamine psychiatrist in Vermont (teleheath) so he’s surprisingly open minded!

Please keep us posted on your Nal experience—I am thankful Tirz fixed the food addiction, but struggling with residual mental “sticky/ disempowering thought” addictions and…Reddit. It seems like you’ve overcome 90+% of the physical dependencies, which is incredible.

I'm bipolar and I started seeing them because I was unmedicated and having a hypomanic episode (looking back, I think I may have been actually manic and just not well enough to see it- just poorly enough to know I wasn't feeling RIGHT) so it makes sense they wanted me seeing them every month until I was stable. Then the first one stopped taking my insurance, and the second one sent me to another new psych when I asked for antabuse because she considered me a seizure risk (I wasn't, to be clear...) then another insurance issue.... I've finally been with one long enough to go to every three months for appointments. I saw the same woman for seven years in my early twenties and I despised her, but that continuity of care was nice, looking back.

I'm now on nal, sema, AND cagri. I'm doing pretty damn great, but I can't tell you which of the three to attribute that to. Drinking also stops my weight loss progress, so having a concrete goal and consequences is helping. Drinking = sema no workie = no drinkie for ChMuse. From what I've seen sema seems best for those addictive behaviors (I've actually cut down on Reddit and TikTok by miles, I've read four books so far in January.)