Mariya Ali

The past few weeks my life has been an experiment. I’ve been closely monitoring my mood, as my psychiatrist and I try to fine tune my medication. For the mostpart, my mood has been stable. In fact, there was a stretch of almost a month where I was completely stable, and then I hit a slight hypomanic episode. It was so mild, that I didn’t realise that I had it until it was over, and I looked back and realised that I actually had many of the symptoms of hypomania and so sent off an e-mail to my psychiatrist, who confirmed that it was, indeed, a hypomanic episode and we would need to tweak my medication. Everytime my primary medication is adjusted, I go through a period of instability. The episodes are nowhere near the magnitude that they were before, but it is still frustrating to know that this whole period of my life is not over yet. I really hope that it ends soon.