Can extreme agitation be considered mania?

Posted by Cindylou on April 24, 2002, at 21:29:46

Just wondering -- I've been skeptical of my BPII diagnosis, because I've never had an actual "manic" episode that I hear of ... fast speech, fast thinking, shopping sprees, stuff like that.

But I get SO AGITATED I can hardly stand it; I can hardly function.

I took Nortriptyline last night and experienced that horrendous agitation today. Now I am exhausted and spent because I had to take more Klonapin than I have ever had to control the agitaiton.

I feel like I shouldn't even be home with my toddler, the way I was today.

Just curious-- could this BPII diagnosis be correct, even though I don't have "mania" as I hear it defined ... (an online screening test said I wasn't Bipolar because I didn't have these manic episodes. It never brought up the extreme agitation issue.)

thanks in advance.
I guess I've gone downhill considerably since I've been off the Lamictal. I felt so lousy on it, I thought it wasn't working. It must have been keeping me afloat more than I knew.

sorry for all my desparate pleas for help. Thanks though for listening.

cindy

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• Can extreme agitation be considered mania? Cindylou 4/24/02
• Re: Can extreme agitation be considered mania? » Cindylou Ritch 4/24/02
• Re: Can extreme agitation be considered mania? » Cindylou Ron Hill 4/24/02
• re: dysphoric mania » Ron Hill Alii 4/25/02
• re: dysphoric mania » Alii Ron Hill 4/25/02
• Re: Can extreme agitation be considered mania? » Ritch Cindylou 4/25/02
• Re: Can extreme agitation be considered mania? » Ron Hill Cindylou 4/25/02
• Re: Can extreme agitation be considered mania? crepuscular 4/25/02
• Re: Can extreme agitation be considered mania? » crepuscular Cindylou 4/25/02
• Re: Extreme agitation and then fatigue » Cindylou Ron Hill 4/25/02
• Re: Can extreme agitation be considered mania? crepuscular 4/25/02
• Re: Can extreme agitation be considered mania? katekite 4/25/02
• Re: Can extreme agitation be considered mania? » katekite Cindylou 4/25/02
• Re: Can extreme agitation be considered mania? rainbowlight 4/26/02
• add, long » Cindylou katekite 4/26/02
• Re: add, long » katekite Cindylou 4/26/02
• took that mindfixers screening, and... » katekite Cindylou 4/28/02

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