Posted by Barbara Cat on June 6, 2003, at 0:59:54
In reply to Anybody? Re: Life without a moodstabilizer?, posted by McPac on June 5, 2003, at 16:40:36
Hi there Mr. McPac,
Yes to both if you're bipolar. Anger, irritability, etc. are all part of bipolar. I've gone off lithium a few times in the past year and a half and it was quite noticeable. Especially agitation and anxiety. Kind of a scattered, disorganized irritability and frustration. Yes, I'd say volitale frustration describes it for me. Everything annoys me. Lines are too long, I drop things, miss connections, people bug the living crap out of me, nothing works right and I get so frustrated with life that I want to kick something. When I then start taking lithium again things smooth out and unkink. I become more patient and calm, feel centered and my energy is smooth and consistent instead of hot and jangled.SSRI's do this too, especially if you're bipolar. As you probably know from this board, SSRIs can exacerbate an underlying manic condition if not combined with a mood stabilizer. Manic is not always the grandiose expansive wild and crazy stuff. It's muddled and prickly and jagged energy and life certainly gets difficult when you're coming from this icky volatile place. It's what happened to me before I realized I was bipolar. Also, when you stop SSRIs one seems to get a backlog of dammed up fury that comes to the surface, even if you're not bipolar. If you major depressive and on the right SSRI you shouldn't have this agitation. - BarbaraCat
> Any bipolars here ever went off their mood stabilizers? If so, did ANGER, TEMPER, IRRITABILITY and AGITATION problems return?
> Do most bipolars have terrible anger/temper/irrit. problems as part of their illness?
> I'm trying to determine whether my anger/temper problems are due to a possible bipolar condition OR if it's caused by taking ssri's! Thanks!
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