Posted by Dinah on August 8, 2011, at 20:58:46
In reply to Underlying Bipolar May be missed In Depression, posted by Phillipa on August 8, 2011, at 20:45:16
That's what happened to me. The pdoc from h*ll kept raising my SSRI and adding drugs that worked on NE, I kept getting worse and symptoms kept popping up. I left him and went to the most well known psychiatrist in the area, who was following the same path.
By that time I was a wreck and only saw him for one or two sessions. My *new* new pdoc (now my former pdoc because of Katrina) put me on Depakote after our first session and I instantly improved. When I tapered off the SSRI's, I didn't really need much mood stabilizer at all.
The treatment is not only different, but the treatment for depression not on the bipolar spectrum is actually harmful to those on the bipolar spectrum.
Doctors should be more careful. I came closer to suicide than I had ever come before on Wellbutrin. Pdoc from h*ll's response? Raise the Wellbutrin dose.
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