u/BeginningMemory8913

**Diagnosis pending

I’ve been on medication for a little over a year two psychs leaning towards bipolar 2. I started on a mood stabilizer and worked up to my current dose. The mood stabilizer has been life changing for my depression but did nothing for my elevated (psychs words) states so I was put on a low dose of an antipsychotic. I’ve been on it for 3 weeks. I don’t think the it is working which sucks because it felt like it was at first.
I spent around $3000 in the past month. A small part of that was pre antipsychotic but it got worse after starting. Some things I wanted for a while but was holding off because I couldn’t afford it and others were straight impulse buys. I’m now deep in the negatives for the month and I don’t have much saved (almost all is invested because I blow through savings accounts eventually). Deep down I knew I shouldn’t but at the time I just pulled the trigger because it felt good and I felt like I deserved some nice things.
My irritability got better and then came back. So did my anxiety. I’ve been frustrated and having small rages or some road rage. I yelled and cursed at a coworker with customers in the building and got into arguments with my bosses. I was going out in public and driving more but now I’m back to being anxious about it.
My sleep was also really bad last week. I slept 4 hours for 5 days out of the week the other two were 6 hours. My sleep the weeks before were averaging six hours. I typically wake up around 2-4 am and I’m UP or I can’t fall asleep because I’m obsessing, daydreaming, or thinking about a lot of things. I felt great until I got tired this morning and took a two hour nap (in addition to sleeping 5 hours). Now I feel well rested again.
I’ve been bouncing between a lot of things or procrastinating because I’m focused on unimportant things which is making it hard to be productive. I did power through a couple of days but that was it. I also keep forgetting things like closing/locking doors at night, leaving items places, leaving my keys in my front door overnight etc.
I’ve been slightly more social and I did start working out again but thats stopped.
I have an appointment with my psych next Friday. Do I email her or wait for the appointment? I feel like maybe it can wait since I slept more and I seem more aware to control it but I also felt like that the past few weeks and clearly I wasn’t. What do you do in these situations?

**Diagnosis pending

I’ve been on medication for a little over a year two psychs leaning towards bipolar 2. I started on Lamotrigine and worked up to my current 200mg dose. Lamotrigine has been life changing for my depression but did nothing for my elevated (psychs words) states so I was put on 2mg of Abilify. I’ve been on it for 3 weeks. I don’t think the Abilify is working which sucks because it felt like it was at first.
I spent around $3000 in the past month. A small part of that was pre Abilify but it got worse after starting. Some things I wanted for a while but was holding off because I couldn’t afford it and others were straight impulse buys. I’m now deep in the negatives for the month and I don’t have much saved (almost all is invested because I blow through savings accounts eventually). Deep down I knew I shouldn’t but at the time I just pulled the trigger because it felt good and I felt like I deserved some nice things.
My irritability got better and then came back. So did my anxiety. I’ve been frustrated and having small rages or some road rage. I yelled and cursed at a coworker with customers in the building and got into arguments with my bosses. I was going out in public and driving more but now I’m back to being anxious about it.
My sleep was also really bad last week. I slept 4 hours for 5 days out of the week the other two were 6 hours. My sleep the weeks before were averaging six hours. I typically wake up around 2-4 am and I’m UP or I can’t fall asleep because I’m obsessing, daydreaming, or thinking about a lot of things. I felt great until I got tired this morning and took a two hour nap (in addition to sleeping 5 hours). Now I feel well rested again.
I’ve been bouncing between a lot of things or procrastinating because I’m focused on unimportant things which is making it hard to be productive. I did power through a couple of days but that was it. I also keep forgetting things like closing/locking doors at night, leaving items places, leaving my keys in my front door overnight etc.
I’ve been slightly more social and I did start working out again but thats stopped.
I have an appointment with my psych next Friday. Do I email her or wait for the appointment? I feel like maybe it can wait since I slept more and I seem more aware to control it but I also felt like that the past few weeks and clearly I wasn’t. What do you do in these situations?