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Ellie
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 Posted - 05/18/2006 : 06:26:55
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Hi all,
I am currently treated for Bipolar Disorder. I think that I have been suffering from anxiety many times in my life, and my whole family does, but I have never been treated for that. Can this lead to a depression crisis? I am afraid for the worse. Has anybody been treated for anxiety problems? Which are the options How can I get out of that?
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| freak
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Posted - 05/21/2006 : 23:17:05
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| Hi,anxiety sucks and I have been dealing with it for as long as I can remember.I was recently, well in the last couple of years by my family doctor that I should be checked for bi-polar because they are alike in some ways,I talked to a phychatrist on the phone and he didn't diagnose me, but he didn't seem to think I had bi-polar.Sometimes I can get pretty depressed, but I don't think my lows are low enough or my highs are high enough to be manic.My best friend years ago was diagnosed with bi-polar and had highs and low lows,she was on and off meds for a couple of years and then stopped meds,and now she thinks she had anxiety all along and was misdiagnosed,she has been taking prozac for anxiety, for about a year and a half,and I was told that you shouldn't take prozac if you are bi-polar because it can trigger a high, she has been doing fine with it.Well I hope this helps,and remember that the worst things you think are going to happen,almost never do. Freak |
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| Ellie
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Posted - 05/22/2006 : 10:43:24
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Thank you so much for your reply, Freak. I am a freak, too.
I talked to my doctor and she increased my anti-psychotics (Zyprexa). It sucks, because it takes all the energy out from me. I actually hoped that she would decreased it sometime, but it maybe for the best that she increased it.
By the way, you do not have to feel high to be BP. Sometimes you are very irritated, instead. This fall, before I start my treatment for BP, I was so irritated that I was afraid to get out of the house alone, not to get involved in a fight.
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| freak
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Posted - 05/23/2006 : 01:07:12
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Hi,you are welcome I hope it helped a little. So do you not get highs where you feel like you can do anything, I don't, you know some days I feel better than other days but never really great, but I am irritated a lot I feel like I just have all this anger inside and I want to scream or explode, more so since I went back on Paxil then when I was on Prozac. I don't know I have been reading about adhd,because I am so unorginized,and I never get anything done really I start one thing and then something else and something else and then I've got to much going so I usually quit before I finish any of them.Oh well, hope you have a good day tommorrow.Freak
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| Ellie
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Posted - 05/23/2006 : 10:11:46
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Sometimes, before my BP treatment, I had racing thoughts. My mind produced so many new ideas, that I was totally incapable of make any of them true. I could not even remember anything of them.
Sometimes I was feeling kind of high, but it was under control. I never did really crazy stuff. I remember once I was on a very good mood even when I had really bad problems, or I felt some very high energy, which I couldn't suppress. Once I redecorated my room at 2.00 am.
These things were more or less harmless, but two other things were really bad for me. First, I made non-realistic plans, that got me into trouble. I think I made very ambitious plans when I was in a hypomanic stage, and when I was in a depressive stage I couldn't make them true. Second, I had paranoid thinking. I believed that many people were acting against me, ect.
During all this period, they gave me anti-depressants, which of course couldn't help with the manic symptoms. It wasn't till I got very irritated (and not safe for myself, as I was getting into fights) that I was diagnosed for BP2. Now, I am thinking that if I was diagnosed for BP earlier and got proper treatment, I might have avoid some trouble I got in my work, and I wouldn't have to quit. Conclusion: I think one should pay attention to symptoms that he may think are harmless, and should not underestimate them. I do not know if my doctors were wrong or if I gave them wrong information, but they had me on the wrong treatment in a very crucial point of my life.
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| xek
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