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Posted by chinaboy on September 6, 2014, at 2:31:45
After faliers of all the antidepressants, my pdoc gave me a diagnosis of bipolar depression.
I've been on mood stabilizes for a week and they made me become a zombie who couldn't think. So I quitted them without the doctor's permission. I felt like a zombie even on antipsychotics. ?????On the other hand, antidepressants make me comfortable.
Do you think that both mood stabilizers and atypical antipsychotics would partly block the NE to achieve their effect? So to a person like me, who cannot function without NE-boosting meds, in fact mood stabilizers and antipsychotics are actually playing the culprit.I think the diagnosis of bipolar has been over-generalized, thus making patient of unipolar depression being put on mood sstabilizers.
Thank you for reading!
Posted by Lamdage22 on September 6, 2014, at 8:01:56
In reply to mood stabilizers or anti-psychotics make me awful, posted by chinaboy on September 6, 2014, at 2:31:45
Antipsychotics block dopamine and that brings negative effects into play.
I don't like it either but i need it.
So antidepressants failed and thats why you are bipolar now? You should only be labeled bipolar if you experienced mania at any time that was not induced by an antidepressant!
Posted by Christ_empowered on September 6, 2014, at 8:23:00
In reply to Re: mood stabilizers or anti-psychotics make me awful, posted by Lamdage22 on September 6, 2014, at 8:01:56
so-called "soft bipolar" seems to be the result of antidepressant side effects and failures. ADs help a lot of people, but they're not that great.If you don't need an AP, don't take one. Seriously. Unless you're talking very low doses of cleaner meds, that's heavy artillery.
Anticonvulsants...I dunno. I like my Lamictal. It does slow you down a bit. Back in the day, people we'd now label "manic depressive" were often on barbiturates, meprobamate, benzos. These drugs are sedatives and anticonvulsants. Modern anticonvulsants help agitation, anxiety, hostility, (hypo)manic issues, etc., so they're just cleaned up sedatives for those of us who have mood issues.
Back in the day, Thorazine was common treatment for bipolar. Not much has changed....
Posted by Phillipa on September 6, 2014, at 10:25:12
In reply to mood stabilizers or anti-psychotics make me awful, posted by chinaboy on September 6, 2014, at 2:31:45
I think you have your own answer you are not bipolar and unipolar so I would take an ad . Is there one that worked well in the past? I was once given a low dose of Trileptal only 150mg for unipolar. Didn't notice much was supposed to boost the ad. Take benzos for the anxiety. Are you also anxious? Phillipa
Posted by linkadge on September 6, 2014, at 12:15:29
In reply to Re: mood stabilizers or anti-psychotics make me awful, posted by Christ_empowered on September 6, 2014, at 8:23:00
Which mood stabilizer(s) / antipsychotics were you prescribed?
FYI, mood stabilizers made me feel much worse at first, but tended to improve things over time.
You might want to try a lower dose.
Coffee can give a decent NE effect. I did fairly well on Depakote (low dose = 125mg) at night plus coffee during the day.
Linkadge
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