A work in progress

Like art, mental health takes a lot of trial and error

Good morning spicy friends!

Today's post is going to be on some real shit. Most of us struggle with mental health issues. I am no exception. Yesterday I had a follow-up with my Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who helps manage my psych meds. A month ago he prescribed me Abilify to help with my ADHD and bipolar 2.

I started it 3 weeks ago. Two weeks ago I picked up the ipad and started making art again. Yesterday he told me to discontinue the abilify and started me on Vraylar another medication with similar actions. But I won’t lie to you, losing abilify and the spark of creativity it gave me feels like a pretty bad blow.

Now, it could be just another manic episode triggered by the abilify. And also

The vraylar could have the same effect without the agitation, insomnia and irritability the Abilify seems to have caused. But course I won't know for a couple weeks.

But mental health recovery is a work in progress, always.

Speaking of works in progress here's some of my studies and works in progress.

This was surprisingly difficult to write and I'm going to talk to my therapist about it on Tuesday.

Keep Growing Loves!

Love, Jules