Posted by Ron Hill on April 24, 2002, at 23:59:29
In reply to Can extreme agitation be considered mania?, posted by Cindylou on April 24, 2002, at 21:29:46
Cindy,
I'm sorry that the TCA made you so irritable. The answer to your question is yes, there are two types of mania; dysphoric mania (or hypomania) and the milder mannered cousin, euphoric mania (or hypomania). The latter is what typically comes to mind when we hear the word "mania", but many suffer with the dysphoric type. The key features are anger and irritability. However, I have no clue that dysphoric hypomania is applicable to you. Might be, might not. What does your pdoc think?
I lost track of you for a week or two. I thought you were planning a trial of omega 3 PUFA's and SAM-e. Am I remembering this correctly? If so, what happened there?
-- Ron
-----------------------------------------Just wondering -- I've been skeptical of my BPII diagnosis, because I've never had an actual "manic" episode that I hear of ... fast speech, fast thinking, shopping sprees, stuff like that.
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> But I get SO AGITATED I can hardly stand it; I can hardly function.
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> I took Nortriptyline last night and experienced that horrendous agitation today. Now I am exhausted and spent because I had to take more Klonapin than I have ever had to control the agitaiton.
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> I feel like I shouldn't even be home with my toddler, the way I was today.
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> Just curious-- could this BPII diagnosis be correct, even though I don't have "mania" as I hear it defined ... (an online screening test said I wasn't Bipolar because I didn't have these manic episodes. It never brought up the extreme agitation issue.)
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> thanks in advance.
> I guess I've gone downhill considerably since I've been off the Lamictal. I felt so lousy on it, I thought it wasn't working. It must have been keeping me afloat more than I knew.
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> sorry for all my desparate pleas for help. Thanks though for listening.
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> cindy
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