Posted by rovers95 on August 21, 2019, at 6:38:58
In reply to Do Antidepressants worked for bipolar 2?, posted by rovers95 on August 21, 2019, at 6:28:33
> So I fit the criteria for bipolar 2. In fact it seems all I've been doing since 2005 is chasing hypomania...and this has finally caught up with me.
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> Anyway, all of light box, sleep deprivation, and amitriptyline have made me unstable. But otherwise I am depressed, and I'll do anything to avoid that. I took a small dose of abilify (1mg) last night and I feel like I used to pre 2005..but I only slept 4 hours so most probably heading towards hypomania.
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> If I start to take a mood stabiliser ie lamotrigine, will I then be able to handle an AD (thinking wellbutrin and or abilify)? I really don't want to come crashing down after all this.
Should have added at the end.. Has anyone with bipolar 2 been able to handle antidepressants with a mood stabiliser when they couldn't do so beforehand?
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