Posted by Conundrum on January 19, 2011, at 10:21:05
In reply to Re: Questions On Depression and Nardil, posted by luckyduck on January 12, 2011, at 15:45:16
> I agree that there was no reason for medication when I was little. I may have been loud but I was happy and the "life of the party". However I know that, as of right now, medication is necessary.
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> I have been on mood stabilizers before. I have been put on Lamitcal on more than one occasion and it does stabilize my mood but it stabilizes it at a very low level.
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> As far as I can tell, I am more depressed than I am bipolar. Still, my doctor is stumped by the energy surge and instant mood spike after coming off medication. It happened most recently last fall where after being on Wellburtin with minimal results, I came off of it cold turkey and within a week I was flying high.I read an article and I really wish I could find it now, but it had a a column of different things you could be experiencing and one of the things that indicated some time of Bipolar II disorder was feeling a lot better when discontinuing psychmeds.
Complaints: post-SSRI problems: anhedonia, memory and concentration problems, sexual anhedonia. )
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