Posted by SLS on January 26, 2012, at 8:19:38
In reply to Does it mean you have bipolar if after taking an, posted by Laney on January 23, 2012, at 15:29:13
> SSRI alone for depression, you go into what could be determined to be mania?
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> My 15 year old nephew got increasingly worse after a family doc doubled his dose of an SSRI (not sure which one).
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> They think his problems might be that he might be bipolar.
In my layman opinion, I think that a manic reaction to antidepressants more than likely indicates a bipolar diathesis (vulnerability). There might not be an absolute 1:1 associaton, but I think the incidence is pretty high. One must take into consideration that even cortisone can precipitate manic and psychotic reactions. I am not so sure what this indicates regarding bipolar vulnerability, but this can happen with people who have no history of mental illness. Of course, there must be a vulnerability of some sort, otherwise, it wouldn't happen.
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