Posted by TJO on February 18, 2006, at 6:53:08
In reply to Re: Bipolar tentative diagnosis, but I'm not sure.... » fiftylager, posted by Maxime on February 17, 2006, at 22:17:39
> > 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.That sounds bipolar to me too.
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.
One of the things bipolar messes with is your sleep schedule.
What do you all think? Thank you
> > Crissi
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> I think ( I'm Bipolar) that you should find a doc as soon as you can, so you can feel better, and so your illness does not worsen. I thnk you should be prepared to be given a prescription or 2 or 3 that you will take for the rest of your life (like blood pressure meds) and hopefully you will feel better and get a good doc. If the first batch of meds does not work well don't worry, there are lots of others.:-)
Tammy
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