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I understand how you feel about not feeling rested no matter how much sleep you get. That's how I feel on Clozaril. I think that I could sleep for 20 hours and still wake up and not feel like I got any sleep.

Does anyone have side effects from their medications they just hate. I have bipolar disorder and take Clozaril for that and it does keep me stable. But it also makes me sleep 11 1/2 hours a day and I feel like it rules my life and keeps me from doing things I want to do. It just sucks. And the two t...

I have had bouts of depression but I also have had bouts of mania since 1993 and would like to get other people's experiences with their bipolar disorder.

I first got these tapes for Christmas in 2011 but a couple of weeks later was hospitalized for 6 weeks with bipolar disorder/dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder)/ and anxiety. Then I was hospitalized again in October 2013 for 8 weeks. Whenever I get manic I ...