Black pup... I like your thoughts about depression... I read in a book lately that Depression is anger turned inwards. I think that's an apt statement.

Before the medical induced mania... I'd say that I had some mild hypomania. Stuff like getting really involved in a project, all gung ho about it and not being able to leave it, then crashing and losing all motivation. It also presented itself with me being extremely irritated for no reason and blowing up at the slightest provocation. Does that make sense?

I agree about the Zoloft, too. Obviously my primary doc had NO idea what he was doing, when he kept upping and upping the dosage because I'd complain that it didn't work. He should have sent me to a psychiatrist a LONG time ago, but instead he just kept writing scripts.