Posted by crepuscular on August 8, 2002, at 11:05:59
In reply to Antidepressants (Effexor) for Bipolar II??, posted by HMK on August 7, 2002, at 10:05:31
Many, many people with bipolar disorder are doing well on low-dose atypicals. my personal experience with these mdeications is much better than the anticonvulsants which left me totally brain dead.
i think we must accept the following: symptom clusters identifiable as disease X may or may not have the same biogenesis in everybody. eg, my observed "bipolar disorder" may originate in a schizophrenia-like neural substrate and thus respond well to antipsychotics.
the brain is so complicated, and people so idiosyncratic, that we need to keep focused on whether or not, at the end of the day, you are *doing better*. i'll take personal progress over nosological guesswork any day. and so should a good doc.
my 2c.
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