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:Re: "important that the patient continue the drugs even when they feel fine" - usually, but not always.  Continued medication is not always required, as it depends on the individual patient.  While some bipolar individuals use lithium or other drugs throughout their lives, others may do so for a few years, then agree with their psychiatrist to try living without the drugs, or just taking a tranquiliser occasionally when they begin to feel manic.  It is important to keep up the psychiatric consultations, to check progress and whether going back on medication may be needed.  (Feel free to add this as article content if required).  [[User:Sideways|Sideways]] 20:03, 16 September 2008 (EDT)

:Re: "important that the patient continue the drugs even when they feel fine" - usually, but not always.  Continued medication is not always required, as it depends on the individual patient.  While some bipolar individuals use lithium or other drugs throughout their lives, others may do so for a few years, then agree with their psychiatrist to try living without the drugs, or just taking a tranquiliser occasionally when they begin to feel manic.  It is important to keep up the psychiatric consultations, to check progress and whether going back on medication may be needed.  (Feel free to add this as article content if required).  [[User:Sideways|Sideways]] 20:03, 16 September 2008 (EDT)

yes , agree with you of course. I was really addressing the short term , where a person on meds is stable, and so stops them, and then experiances an Up or Down episode.  [[User:Markr|Markr]] 23:34, 16 September 2008 (EDT)

yes , agree with you of course. I was really addressing the short term , where a person on meds is stable, and so stops them, and then experiances an Up or Down episode.  

 

  [[User:Markr|Markr]] 23:34, 16 September 2008 (EDT)