Posted by Keith Talent on January 17, 2004, at 2:12:16
In reply to Re: Stimulants and LITHIUM ???}} Keith, posted by Maxime on January 15, 2004, at 15:03:38
> Keith I am very interesting in your response because of the word "switching". I am hoping you mean from one mood to the next. You see, I am bipolar and thinking of trying ritalin as my anti-depressant but I worried that it might make me manic. Are you saying that it wouldn't?
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Maxime, by switching, I mean from either depressed mood or euthymia to hypomania/mania. I recall seeing a couple of papers in PubMed from the 1970s/early 80s that found that stimulants seemed to control mania. But I don't know that there's any evidence that they are less likely to cause switching in bipolar patients than antidepressants.
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