Posted by LostBoyinNC45 on April 22, 2014, at 23:13:21
Its something you probably never heard of before. Its a sub type of sleep apnea, basically. Its called "Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome" or OHS. About the only people who can diagnose it are pulmonary medicine specialists with training in sleep apnea and maybe some critical care medicine specialists.
I thought I'd throw it out as an another potential cause of treatment resistant depression.
Basically, its sleep disordered breathing but you rebreathe air during your sleep and get carbon dioxide buildup in your bloodstream, which makes you act depressed, irritable, agitated during the daytime. Its also dangerous as it will kill you as its a pure medical condition.
As so many treatment resistant depressives are obese from taking so many psychiatry meds over years and from chronic inactivity, I bet there are might be some OHS sufferers on this and similar forums. Definitely regular consumders of mood stabilizers like depakote and lithium and atypical anti-psychotics would be the types to possibly develop OHS.
Read about OHS here:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000085.htm
Eric AKA "LostBoyinNC"
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