Posted by Ritch on February 5, 2005, at 22:28:39
In reply to Re: meds for agitated depression?, posted by Spriggy on February 5, 2005, at 20:44:37
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>I have tapered off and am now on day 6 with NO Lexapro. I am feeling better every passing day.
As a matter of fact, today I have felt almost totally normal and like "myself" all day long.
So I am now 100% convinced it was the Lexapro.
If I stay feeling this way, I won't need any medicine.
If I go back to the horrible depression, I know that I won't survive another go round with it and will have to get help.
SO.. I'm guessing I will need something other than an SSRI and a mood stabilizer.
My psych ruled out bipolar although my father (and his mother) are severely bipolar. My grandmother actually committed suicide 10 years ago because of her bipolar.
So it is a family history but I've never displayed any "mania" and up until this point, only have had brief times of depression but nothing life altering like this past episode.
I have concluded two things, Either:
1) I may be bipolar and just be mildly so and can function without meds regularly
OR
2) the medication induced some type of manic behavior (not a fun mania however) and I am not bipolar.
I will just have to wait this out and see how I feel I suppose.
There are people that are super-sensitive to SRI drugs. Some *maybe* "bipolar", but it wouldn't surprise me that they aren't really bipolar at all, but just exhibit these symptoms when exposed to SRI meds. There has been some genetic findings that show hypersensitivity that I've read here recently. Just because a new substance has been invented that can induce a mania in a person, shouldn't by definition result in a bipolar diagnosis in that individual. Substance-induced mania warranting a bp diagnosis isn't "correct" at this time (per the current DSM). There are psychiatrists that believe that *any* substance triggering a mania is doing nothing more than "uncovering" a latent bipolar disorder. I don't believe that is accurate.
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