Posted by baseball55 on November 24, 2012, at 19:51:41
In reply to Re: Nasty mood swings Need help desperately!!! » baseball55, posted by ChicagoKat on November 24, 2012, at 9:54:19
My p-doc isn't so big on labels. He said you have terrible problems with mood swings and depression. Call it bipolar 3(a) or whatever you want. His clinical experience was that lamictal is very effective in reducing suicidal ideation. But mostly he wanted me to find a DBT therapist. I can't tell you how much it has helped to learn how to manage these swings without panicking and sinking deeper and deeper down. I was being continually hospitalized, had made two suicide attempts and medication was not helping enough.
It's been incredibly important to me to gain some control over how I react to these mood swings with DBT. I haven't been hospitalized in a year and a half (and I was hospitalized a lot, at least every year for several years and usually for weeks at a time) and feel mostly better. When my mood dips too deeply, I take a heavy dose of xanax and haldol and knock myself out for 14 hours or so. I generally awake feeling better.
Did they ever give you a diagnosis for what was going on? I hope you feel better, and can keep out of that abyss. It is a nightmare there, is it not?
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