Posted by ronaldo on February 8, 2007, at 11:09:09
In reply to need help with bipolar diagnosis, posted by bch on February 7, 2007, at 20:59:02
Hello bch
It sounds to me like you are suffering from dysphoric elation which is the opposite of euphoric elation. You may not be primarily depressed at all. You may be suffering from dysphoric mania.
Dysphoric mania
The concurrent presence of symptoms of depression and mania together. Also called Mixed bipolar state.http://www.medicalglossary.net/Dysphoric_mood.htm
I am a manic depressive myself and I suffer from dysphoric elation. It is in fact the opposite of depression but it leaves me feeling intensely irritable and I am ready to bite my wife's head off. It is a feeling of impatience and why is the world conspiring against me.
Euphoric Elation: feel great, can't stop talking, full of wonderful ideas, propensity towards financial and sexual indiscretions, you feel so alive and excited.
Dysphoric Elation: the opposite of Euphoric Elation. I rarely experience Euphoric Elation. With me its usually Dysphoric. I nurture grievances against various people. I am intensely irritable, impatient, easily frustrated, quick to anger, liable to lose my temper, everyone else is an idiot but they just can't see it.
Definition of Dysphoric mania
Dysphoric mania: The concurrent presence of symptoms of depression and mania together. Also called Mixed bipolar state
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=24356There are many treatments for Bipolar Disorder. The Gold Standard is Lithium-Bicarbonate. I have been taking Lithium for some 25 years or more. I tolerate it well. I have blood tests every 3 months to check my lithium levels and these are always around 0.8 mMol/liter. This is right in the therapeutic window which is from 0.7 to 1.1 approx. The checks on my thryroid, my kidneys, and my liver have always been OK. I feel fine on Lithium. I was on Zyprexa, initially rx'd for sleep. After 18 months it didn't make me sleep anymore but I was persuaded to stay on it because allegedly 'it helped the Lithium to work'. I have now almost weaned myself off it over a period of 2 months. If you take it take it at 2.5 mg and don't stay on it for years and years. You will have trouble coming off it.
Well I hope this info has been useful to you.
Being Bipolar is only a name tag. Bipolars themselves cover all shades of the bipolar-spectrum
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