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Re: Hypomania-- a solution to TR Depression?

Posted by Nickengland on November 2, 2005, at 16:26:23

In reply to Re: Hypomania-- a solution to TR Depression?, posted by Nickengland on November 2, 2005, at 15:40:43

Might as well add just alittle more :-)

Just to say, perhaps there is some kind of trend appearing within the bipolar 'hypomania' diagnosis which is not such a good thing. I know over here, it was (and perhaps still is) the case that a farily large percentage of people were going to their GP reporting depressive symptoms, without much hessitation the GP's were simpliy diagnosising 'depression' and then prescribing people anti depressants and that was that so to speak. There was alot of coverage in the newspapers about this...GP's just giving out antidepressants, without first seeing if there was other causes involved etc. This is mainly due to just the crap NHS health system.

I wonder if it could be that on the flip side, for whatever reasons involved that doctors might be kinda keen just to give out a 'hypomania' diagnosis and medicate.

This is quite interesting about hypomania...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomania

I can relate to some of that, especially in that I only need very low dosages of mood stabilisers - compare that to my mother who has/had full blown mania (ect back in the 60's etc) shes now extreamly stable on lithium, but she has higher dosages compared to me.

Hope you manage to work this out Girlnterrupted, I think you will in time and hopefully, it wasn't hypomania - but still get the feel good factor back :-)

Kind regards

Nick


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