This blog is primarily a personal mental health recovery blog. We have DID and other mental and physical/chronic health issues, which you can read about more in our ‘about us’ page, linked below. As part of our recovery we are trying to enforce safe boundaries for ourselves and ask that those be respected here. I’ll put the rest under a read more so this post doesn’t take up too much room.
I lied and said I was busy. I was busy, but not in a way people understand. I was busy taking deeper breaths, I was busy silencing irrational thoughts, I was busy calming a racing heart, I was busy telling myself I am ok
People need to understand that ‘busy’ doesn’t always have to mean physically occupied with things. Lots of us are fighting a mental battle and that’s got them occupied and being able to take care of ourselves is the priority
psa to everyone on antipsychotics during the summertime
some antipsychotics can make you more susceptible to heat exhaustion because they make it so your body cannot regulate your body temperature correctly. I learned this the hard way last summer, I got really nasty heat exhaustion while on a high dose of quetiapine. so check if your meds react badly to heat, and if they do, please be sure to wear your sunscreen, have light cover ups on or with you, wear a hat, and stay hydrated! be safe
especially duloxetine and clozapine,know the signs of dehydration,take cooling breaks if you have to be in the sun
duloxetine is commonly branded in the USA as Cymbalta.
Note: many anti-bipolar meds are also antipsychotics. I found a list of psychotropic meds that can increase risk of heat exhaustion here:
Can personally confirm that Latuda/Lurasidone can also mess with your heat response and lead to heat exhaustion if you arenβt careful, like I wasnβt.
“Anxiety is an urgent, deafening thing. No matter how many logical reasons you have to remain happy or positive, when it is present, you can hear nothing else.”
