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Originally Posted by Ryask
...When i first started taking my meds i was on cloud 9 within a week. ...My doctor told me the antidepressant was making me manic.
So i started taking the antidepressant again and i was supposed to take the abilify too, so i wouldn't go manic, i didn't take it. I impulsively ...<did manic things... my words>...The antidepressant ...It's just making the highs and lows cycle faster...I don't want to be depressed and i don't want to be manic and spend myself into divorce.
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Sounds familiar! I was immediately put on a full dose AD by GP and felt better big time
in just 2 or 3 days! That should have been the first tip off...Was given no mood stabilizer (because she was out of her psych knowlege league and stuck with the misdiagnosis.. simply upping and adding on more ADs by themselves) Highs higher, lows lower (which didn't seem possible, yet was physically compelled to jump out into traffic, which isn't even my "style" so to speak, when it became clear that something was VERY wrong with this treatment. It went on for 3 years.) and cycling much faster. I didn't know what "cycling" even was at the time.
Your next to last sentence says it all. That is EXACTLY what mood stabilizers are for. Try the mood stabilizer, give it time and if that one doesn't work, try another. And another if necessary till you get things at a decent place.
Current strategy not working, right? We don't choose to have BP, but we can choose to do what we can to manage it, right? Don't suffer unnecessarily and wait to lose it all, ok? Please keep us posted, ok?
