Posted by Jimmyboy on August 14, 2006, at 21:08:42
Is there a difference between BP II and treatment resistant depression? If so are the approaches to treat them different? I need to know this b/c I have heard that taking anti-depressants when you are bipolar it can make the cycling faster/worse.. But I have suffered almost exclusively from severe depression that comes and goes for no reason, as far back as I can remember.
I have had 1 full blown manic episode. I was in a terrible depression 12 yrs ago and started taking zoloft ( as well as lots of drugs like acid) and ended up full blown-manic and in the psyc hospital. A period of cyclyical depressions started after that interspersed with times of feeling normal. Last year after a traumatic time ( mom committed suicide) I started taking SAM-e and had a hypomanic episode that lasted approx. 2 1/2 months and it has been back to cycling depression but much deeper this time. Along with depression there is definitely alot of anxiety, social avoidance, hypersomnia, cloudy thinking , etc.
So does that sound like BP II or atypical depression and the two manic episodes were induced by the medication I was taking?
Thanks much for any advice or thouhgts on the subject! I need it...
JB
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