Posted by Ritch on June 4, 2002, at 7:51:01
In reply to Thank you, Thank you- one more question?, posted by JennyJen on June 4, 2002, at 6:37:58
> Mitch/JohnX2/everyone,
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> Thank you for your help .... that clarifies alot of questions I had about bipolar II. So my final question, I have restarted parnate and am feeling better. Some weird behavior is returning and I was wonder how you guys interpret this (for example):
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> I feel the need to clean my radiator. It is real dirty, been painted several times and smell like fumes when turned on. It is really gross. What bothers me is I have this "need" to clean it. I actually attempted to strip it with paint thinner before when on parnate! I was thinking about taking it apart to clean it as well, I went on line to find out how to do that but no luck! My old shy/phobia self could care less ... let it be dirty!
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> Does this sound like me get finally getting better .... or the dreaded hypomania.
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> Thanks again,
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> JennyThose might be symptoms of OCD, but OTOH, you seemed to have "gotten into" cleaning it, which often are symptoms of depression lifting (when you get depressed everything may all pile up-and then when it lifts you start getting everything tidied up). I notice I am into all sorts of projects when my depression lifts, but that isn't always accompanied by hypomanic symptoms. John's idea about trying the Nardil instead of the Parnate is a good suggestion-Parnate definitely is more activating than Nardil. I would tell your pdoc about the "cleaning" stuff and see what he thinks. Of course, the bottom line with that is are you going through a lot of thinking "loops" (ruminating) about cleaning something well in advance of doing it (and feeling discomfort), or do you just find yourself in the middle of getting it done and feel pleased that you accomplished something? If you are doing a lot of ruminating prior to the cleaning I would be more concerned.
Mitch
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