Posted by holymama on April 14, 2005, at 8:50:57
In reply to Re: psychotic depression... and sinus infection?, posted by banga on April 14, 2005, at 8:30:12
I am on medication for Bipolar illness but I still cycle up and down slightly. My therapist and I have noticed that a cold or a series of sicknesses (I have three young children, so we get sick a lot during the cold months) will throw me into a downward spiral of depression. My theory is this: 1. that my very sensitive system gets run down by a cold and so it pulls the whole thing off, and/or:
2. my mood starts to get bad because I'm feeling sick and I can't get it back up again.
Good luck. I think you're on to something here. Keep a daily journal for him with a brief description of mood/sickness/anything out of the ordinary, and you will probably find some patterns that will be priceless to him as he gets older and has to learn to anticipate a mood swing. I am learning now to change my medication BEFORE a mood swing happens, once I've been sick for a while and starting to feel run down.
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