Posted by pretty_paints on December 10, 2004, at 13:16:45
In reply to The Bipolar Spectrum, posted by ed_uk on December 10, 2004, at 12:50:10
Hi Ed!
Here I am!
Thanks for replying to my posts. I didnt reply sooner because its so easy to get addicted to this website, I am trying to ween myself off! ha ha.
The stuff you said about psychosis and dopamine was interesting. Isn't it funny, before I was diagnosed as psychotic, the depression was all I concentrated on. I knew that venlafaxine was giving me the seratonin and the-other-one-beginning-with-n boost, but because I was still so low, I started thinking about a dopamine boost and even mentioned it to my pdoc. I was convinced that the reason I was still depressed was because my dopamine was too low. My pdoc didnt pay attention to me (rightly so!) and put me on an antipsychotic instead. And HOW MUCH BETTER DID THAT MAKE ME FEEL! LOADS! So actually reducing the dopamine had the effect of making me feel better. I trust my doc a lot more now. We all can read about stuff like this, and think we know what we're doing, but usually the doc knows best! (not always of course, but generally).
Anyway, look at me again jabbering about non-bipolar stuff.
Ok, my opinion on this. Erm, yeh, you could be right. I suspected myself as bipolar once mainly due to the stuff you mentioned, anger, irritability, racing thoughts etc. But it actually turned out that the anger and racing thoughts was linked to being psychotic. Similar to hypomania tho. A fine line probably divides them...
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