Posted by Maxime on February 17, 2006, at 22:17:39
In reply to Bipolar tentative diagnosis, but I'm not sure...., posted by fiftylager on February 17, 2006, at 18:17:50
Hello ... I am your neighbour to the East.
There are so many different kinds of bipolar that it's hard to know for sure. It sounds like you are rapid cycling right now.
Sometimes I think that a BP diagnosis is given when it's really atypical depression.
What's important is that you find the right meds and get stabilised.
I think Pdocs are hard to find all across Canada.
Take care,
Maxime
> Well, I haven't been diagnosed by pdoc but my gp thinks I have bipolar and she is sending me to pdoc. She said hopefully within the month (huge dr. shortage in northern ontario). A part of me really believes I'm bipolar but when I'm feeling fairly good I tend to doubt it. It doesn't feel like I experience hypomania or mania. When I was a teenager I could say yeah, I did some pretty wild things but now I'm just either depressed, highly anxious, or very mad and then sometimes good. I had a really bad time this month starting with a highly anxious state (I thought I was going nuts, it's happened a few times before) then I swung to a weird state. I mixed between feeling literally high (like on drugs), to very deeply depressed, to very angry (screaming) all in a day. This went on for about a week. I'm still in kind of an odd state. I'm tired but not sleeping well. Not true insomnia but vivid dreams and lot's of waking. I'm depressed then okay, but not deeply depressed, just blah, and I feel restless at times. The weird thing is noooo anxiety. I haven't gone a day without anxiety in about 6 months or more but for the past 4 days, none. I'm definitely not complaining but it is so weird. I just feel really off. My whole schedule feels off. I don't know, have any of you experienced this. I just feel, unsettled. Like my whole mind has done a flip flop. What do you all think? Thank you
> Crissi
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