Does this kind of rapid mood switching sound familiar? I am on a quest to eliminate pharmaceuticals except for emergencies. I am down to only one anti-depressent - Remeron. I have been on that diet for about a year now.

Here is the curious thing. I am having spells of a hour or so, to a couple days, of rapid alternating emotional washes. I am generally pretty awake, even cheerful, but within seconds can be washed over by a wave of anxious, black emotion. it can sometimes provoke a rapid crying/tearing, too.

Anyway, this kind of sounds like what a friend years ago had - rapidly cycling bipolar disorder. The only thing is the up sides are not near so radical as the down sides.

No matter what, I am feeling greater and greater confidence in being "out" as a "mentally ill" person. The concept of "illness" is loosing its power on my attitude. I am getting more comfortable with joining what my mother might have called eccentric people.

Viva the mad!

Where would the world be with out the irreverent crazy people who broke the paradigm?

I just noticed my letter lacked some coherance... That too.