Posted by smokeymadison on April 25, 2004, at 20:43:03
In reply to Re: Anyone Wanna Play P'doc??, posted by holymama on April 25, 2004, at 19:20:55
depression can be worse in the morning and lessen at night and it may not be BPII. could be though. the only way i could really think of actually finding out would be to try a SSRI like Paxil (which really helps with anxiety) and see if you get hypomanic. then you are BPII for sure. of course, you would probably hate Paxil b/c it tends to kill the sex drive. assuming you are BPII the best thing for you would be a mood stabilizer AND an antidepressant. one to lift your mood and the other to stabilize it. trileptal is a good mood stabilizer. there are also gabitril and neurontin, but those made me feel dopey. Wellbutrin is a good antidepressant which doesn't kill the sex drive and is activating and won't make you cyle faster like other antidepressants. but i am not sure it really helps with anxiety very much. could just be me, of course. good luck.
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