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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

— George Bernard Shaw

Halderol, Depakote, Aricept, Lexapro – these are the new words that I’m learning these days.  Never did I think that I would be increasing my vocabulary so quickly.  Welcome to the wonderful world of pharmaceutical mood enhancement.

To be fair, I had heard of all these drugs before because my friend May has a son who is bipolar and these drugs had been prescribed for him as they were trying to help him with his OCD and bipolar disorder.  The thing is, I had never really understood what each one did – I didn’t need to.

What has caused my newfound knowledge of all these meds is that my father went on a 4-day Continue reading » Doing What Must Be Done