Posted by mike lynch on March 24, 2008, at 1:03:53
In reply to Re: Bipolar III caused by antidepressants?, posted by dbc on March 21, 2008, at 15:21:23
> What i was really getting at is yes anti-depressants tend to do weird things to people >that are bipolar. Such as mood cycling, hypomania, etc. Its not the meds fault that this is happening its just the doctor had no clue the person might be bipolar. The BP spectrum is vague at best but the treatments are all the same and >mood stabilizers are the main drugs of choice for them rather than anti-depressants.
What makes you think the doctor missed the bp diagnosis? Is it that far out of the realm of possibility that manipulating neurotransmitters via the use of SSRI's *caused* the onset of hypomania?
If the patient had BP to begin with, then it WOULDN'T be the medications fault would it? Thus their wouldn't be a DSM consideration for bp3 which is caused exclusively by medication. But that is the whole basis for it.
I have been on nearly every ssri there is, and everyone of them caused hypomania. And I WAS NOT bipolar in anyway before. The MEDS cause it.
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