Category: Success Stories
Meredith’s success story: bipolar
Meredith was diagnosed with bipolar when she was 19, and she was put on a cocktail of medication immediately. She stopped taking her medication as soon as she became pregnant, but after her daughter was born and she stopped nursing, she became unstable and started on the medication again. The numbness the medication implemented inspired another way, and she eventually found EMPowerplus, which changed here life.
The best gift that I could give my child was a future with a healthy mom. I’m the mother of two beautiful girls: Kya who is almost three and Kathryn (Kate) who is three and a half months.
When I was 19, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Shortly after this discovery, I can remember crying to a close friend of mine that I didn’t want to pass this “thing” onto my children—when or if I decided to have any. My biggest fear was that they would end up scared and lost like I was. I went through the cocktail of medications that doctors prescribe to mask the disorder.
It wasn’t long after I quit taking my prescribed Effexor that I became pregnant with Kya. My doctor was concerned about me taking medication while being pregnant so I went un-medicated for my entire pregnancy and nine months of nursing.