Posted by Barbara Cat on June 6, 2003, at 1:10:54
In reply to Barb, Re: Should BP II's nix the AD's? - Depends, posted by McPac on June 5, 2003, at 15:06:53
I wrote a pretty detailed post about mixed states a few months ago if you want to search for it, but glad to answer. It's when mania and depression collide. The depression is very agitated, despairing, black and almost psychotic. It's wailing terror and despair frequently mixed with panic, day in day out. Like being sucked into a black hopeless abyss. Nightmarish, at least for me. Few bipolars get mixed states, thank God. It's extreme and I think it crosses into schizoprenic territory. It's not agitated depression either. I don't know what it is but I know that Edgar Allen Poe and Edvard Munch who painted "The Scream" surely had it. It's rather cosmic and apocolyptic and probably interesting if it didn't feel so awful. Anyhow, lithium has healed me of that horror.
> "Mixed states is absolute hell".
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> >>>>>>>Barb, I may have asked you this before but what is a 'mixed state'? Is it feeling 2 different emotions at once? Thanks!
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