Posted by MB on October 22, 2001, at 17:16:12
In reply to Re: Worse on certain medications?? Bipolar?? ?MB, posted by Andy123 on October 19, 2001, at 18:30:02
I wonder if there's ever been a hypochondriac for whom the disease of focus was, actually, hypochondria. I mean, it's a catch-22. The patient would say, "doc, I think I have hypochondria." And the doctor could say, "well sir, you don't really have hypochondria, you're just imagining it." But as soon as he said that, he would be calling the patient a hypochondriac. This one keeps me up late at night trying to figure out. lol
> Here is your new official diagnosis:
> psychiatric hypochondria.
>
> :)
>
> Antidepressants make me worse (they didn't before, now they do...kindling?) also: racing, pounding heart; racing thoughts; pacing around wanting to pull my hair out saying, "oh my god oh my god," and thinking I'm going to freak out or die. It's been suggested this weird reaction could be because I'm bipolar...I don't know. It seems like what has been described to me as a mixed state...kinda like anxiety/mania/depression all rolled into one. Have you tried a mood stabalizer? It seems you've only tried drugs that, alone, might make bipolar worse (I don't know about Zyprexia and bipolar...that might be OK). Just a suggestion, I don't really know what I'm talking about, but I needed to ramble.
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