Posted by SLS on February 6, 2012, at 14:28:23
In reply to Re: lithium, posted by Raisinb on February 6, 2012, at 14:16:48
> I was just diagnosed with bipolar 2, depressed, in the fall. I was hospitalized for suicidal ideation and they determined that I was bp2. Before that my diagnosis was mdd.
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> I don't know which to agree with, frankly. I did have a hypomanic reaction to an add, but it was Wellbutrin, and that was the only one. I have had very irritable, angry times in my life but nothing that seems to add up to actual mania or hypomania.Did the irritability occur when you were an adolescent?
I tend to believe that a manic reaction to an antidepressant indicates bipolarity. Linkadge disagrees with me on this. If your depression looks something like the atypical subtype, but with marked anergia, psychomotor retardation, anhedonia, melancholia, and non-reactive mood, it is probably bipolar.
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I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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