Posted by desolationrower on December 26, 2008, at 23:10:04
In reply to Re: Is THIS anti-depressant induced Mania?, posted by crittercuddler on December 26, 2008, at 18:47:22
It might help thinking about how symptoms delevoped for you. For some people this can help figure out what is the disease that is causing the others. So one person might have OCD as manic-side sypmtom of their bipolar, and others may have mood disturbed becasue of how OCD is disrupting to life functioning. So thinking about how symptoms first showed up and what things are more constant personality traits might help. Trying also to find 'objective' ways of judging how you are reacting or what 'normal' is for you could help, by things like hours slept, what family notices about how you are acting, things like that. some people keep a record, so they write down each week or so what their meds were, and how wel they were doing on various factors.
i noticed when i started citalopram i felt more like ADHD hyperactive and less like inattentive for the first week. what you mentioned doesn't sound like red-flags going up for bipolar; you might want to look through the bipolarity signs stuff at http://www.psycheducation.org/index.html and see how you score on some of the checklists.
-d/r
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