Lil Nas X breaks silence in rehab, reveals bipolar disorder diagnosis: ‘I feel like I had known for the past few years, but I didn’t want admit to it because I didn’t want to have to take medication’

I was the same but with schizophrenia, just wanted to live a normal life so just kinda ignored it until I couldn’t anymore. Is medicated better? Maybe… I haven’t committed any war crimes yet so they must be doing something.

The worst symptom of mental illness might be “I don’t want to take my meds” with a person’s brain doing logic flips to get them to stop. It’s like the first step of this person’s other symptoms taking over their life as illness runs loose. I hope he’s treated well and able to get things stabilized.

PMH RN here, going on 15 years. Some antipsychotics are genuinely life-saving — I’ve seen it firsthand. But the side effect burden can be brutal, and if there’s a real possibility of managing symptoms without them, that’s worth exploring seriously. Some people have had surprisingly good outcomes with service animals as part of their support plan.

If he can admit that, he’s further along than most people. I can definitely cop to that myself and I can say without a doubt it was the biggest mistake of my life. I now take the medications. I’m even on antidepressants that I wish I could be off of, but I know that I’m still masking some of the depression symptoms that squeak through and without the meds I’d just be masking it all again and burn out hard.

I’m on 20mg of olanzapine and 300mg of lamictal , I haven’t been manic in nearly 6 years and that’s since I started meds and when I do get depressed it much shorter , I love my meds I feel like my personality is gone but im not well enough to not take the meds and something that stops mania for nearly 6 years is something you don’t want to stop

I’ve been a lil worried about him. May he live a happy healthy life.