Bipolar Disorder Support Group
Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.
I told the casworker I stopped taking my medicine because she had asked me when I took it last. Husband told ner he doesn't think I need my medicine that I have been fine without it. I guess I have been med free for about a couple months....I thought it was one month but I think it might be a little longer than that. I am also begining to doubt my diagnosis since the only real time I got manic was when on lexapro an SSRI for depression. I was suicidal and the pdoc at the time uped my dose and I became paranoid of everyone and everything including the docs diagnosing me. I had a manic episode blacked out and ended up claiming a chicken leg was the key to the universe. I don't really recall going manic on my own. What do you all think. Do you think a medicine induced mania can automatically label someone as bipolar???
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
And I'm sure others will correct me if I'm wrong but only beepers go manic in SSDI's if not being treate with an anti-psychotic
bring about a manic episode. They call it
Bipolar type III. It does seem that for some
people at different times, the illness can go
into a sort of remission. It sounds to me like
a particularly dangerous time. You never know
when the illness will rear it's ugly head again
and throw you into fullblown mania. I would
strongly encourage you to talk to your pDoc
about this and not just your boyfriend.
Notably, drug-induced mood disorder is more likely to occur in individuals with risk factors for major depressive disorder (MDD)
So I question my DX everday.
it's hard to believe they would pin this or any mental health dx on anyone on the basis of one incident, especially when there are serious exacerbating circumstances, be they environmental (such as a depression brought about by a retirement from 50 years in the same line of work) or externally chemical (such as this lexapro mania thing).
but i'm not a pdoc...
good luck with your search for a firm dx and pdoc/med treatment that you are fully comfortable with.
xx,
beep.
Like Debbie said, there is something called BP3 that is starting to be talked about, which is med-induced BP. However, BP3 is not currently in the DSMiV (the "official mental health diagnostic manual"), and all the varieties of BP in the official manual currently explicitly state that manias caused by meds do NOT count towards a diagnosis. So, if a doc is diagnosing you based on that manic episode only, he is either:
-diagnosing you "off the book"
-using other symptoms to diagnose either mania or hypomania
Lets go put the entire population on SSRIs then and see what the hell happens! Then we can call anyone who is pushed manic Bipolar 3!
That is the biggest crock of shit I have ever heard!
I was labeled as BP ONLY after going manic on an antidepressant.
I haven't gone manic/hypomanic ONCE since stopping the antidepressants.
It wasn't until I started having flashbacks of my molestation that my most recent pdoc was like WHOA! You aren't BP! You have PTSD! Lets re-evaluate this!
So now I am reworking my meds...and I am doing better than ever.
Yeah, I come back to the BP boards because I still deal with mood issues and to tell you the truth, you guys are a lot nicer than the depression people. They are mean over there!
I question my dx too since I also have PTSD and borderline.