Well, I doubt he saw that coming!

I just got back from seeing my Shrink.

What I shouldn't have done was asked him about what happened to his beard, because he took like 5+ minutes trying to explaining it, rather than just saying, "I shaved it to look younger"...

I like the guy, but he seems to work very, very slowly.

With my Bipolar, that at times, I can talk and move very fast.  I've usually been like that, and watching someone else move so slowly is hard to watch.  Really tries my patience.

Watching people work/do things slowly applies to work too.. Remember when I said that a guy I work with is a great developer, but he's slow at typing and registering what's going on.

The only way that I equate this, is being behind some grandma at the grocery store, who only has a few items, but then writes a check by hand... very, very, very slowly, when you only have 1-2 things but decided that this line looked like a good one to get into.

Well, the Ogre, what I call my Shrink, didn't see it coming that I had stopped my Zyprexa after I went from 25mg of Lamictal to 50mg.

I thought, what the heck, either it's going to prevent me from only sleeping a few hours or it's not and I can start back up on the Zyprexa.

Well, it worked, and I haven't had Zyprexa in my system for several weeks, and my weight has dropped back down... to what? I don't know, but my clothes are loser again, and my belt tightens back to where I used to have it.

He also didn't expect me to drop my dosage of Effexor to 150mg instead of the 300mg I had been on.

I don't know if he understands that I really don't want to be on some of these other drugs.

What some of his surprise is from, is the fact that the dosage that I stopped Zyprexa was maybe 1/16th of the dose that I should be up on.

I suppose when I get to 150 mg of Lamictal, which is Monday, I'll consider dropping the rest of the Effexor. However, I'm not certain yet as it's been a heck of a stability for my depression.

Yet, it would be good to be off of that medication to get my libido back around the time of my 13th wedding anniversary.

Last year, it was quite a bit of work before things even got desirable for me to be with my wife.  Not that she's not pretty or desirable, it's just that Effexor really screws with your libido.