Posted by BLPBart on February 26, 2002, at 0:09:34
In reply to Atypical Depression, posted by Automated Lady on February 25, 2002, at 13:15:23
> Just found out about atypical depression.... why have I never been told about this by any of the doctors or psychiatrists/counsellors I've seen? Can anyone else tell me about their experiences being diagnosed with this, or is it something they only recognise in the US?
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> I've been struggling with depression since my teens (I'm now 24) and have never understood why it just wouldn't go away, why no medication really seemed to work, and why I was sleeping and eating so much when you're supposed to lose weight and not sleep when depressed (this was made worse because my mother suffered "classic" depression and I think expected mine to take the same course as hers).
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> Anyone id, and what kind of medication has worked?
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> ALMy doc has never told me that I have atypical depression but based on the descriptions I've read I believe that's why mine is. I have the same problems, when I'm down I could sleep 20 hours a day and eat, eat , eat. I originally started on prozac which seemed to work for a while and then I became so lethergic I could hardly get out of bed although the depression hadn't come back. My doc added wellbutrin to counteract it and even though I was only taking 10 mg/day of prozac, it was turning me into a complete zombie. I finally dropped the prozac completely and the wellbutrin SR is working pretty well although I don't feel mentally as good as I did with the prozac but I never want to go back to that zombie feeling.
Interestingly I also just found out that I may have an inattentive form of ADD which I've seen described as a form where you'll have low motivation and feel "out of gas" all of the time. That is definitely me on a good day! My pdoc just added dexedrine spansules and we're slowly titrating it up to get to the ideal therapeutic dose. I'm currently taking 30 mg/day of the dexedrine along with the wb SR and I can't even feel the dex yet.
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