Posted by Dan_MI on June 5, 2010, at 16:16:52
In reply to journal of my bipolar, posted by sam K on June 5, 2010, at 11:59:31
You are right, mood-stabilizers can make you manic, so can Seroquel and even lithium. I think anything is possible with the brain, and your doctor should take a more agnostic approach to something he doesn't understand.
You know more about this than they do. I stopped being honest with my psychiatrists a long time ago because of experiences like you described.
Hang in there, I've felt (briefly) hypomanic from lamictal, seroquel and lithium, separately. You're not alone.
> i am hypomanic right now and its pissing me off because it makes me anxious/unhappy/sometimes overly happy for like a few minutes/frustrated and irritable/ racing thoughts.
> i take depakote and that helps alot. yet i noticed when i went over 2000 mg I felt more hypomanic. I dont really want to go back down to 2000 because i still have a lot of anxiety that above 2000 can help.
> Then i take abilify and that sh*t makes me hypomanic anyway.. my doctor tells me "oh no that cant be possible" hmmmmmmm..... well. it is. sure ill keep taking it. but it causes a light hypomania but is nice for the shizoid thinking i have.
> so basically... i feel hopeless. Why? because its a symptom of my hypomania. Why am I hypomanic? because of my meds. What is supposed to help my hypomania? my meds. hmm sh*tty situation.
> help me god
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