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Old Dec 13, 2012, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Seaswept View Post
Most people can handle an antideppressant without fliipping into mania.
If your brain is predisposed to having bipolar the antidepressant just helps it along. Triggers it. Being predisposed is having mental illness in the genes.
Seaswept you're correct. I was correctly diagnosed after being thought to have depression. I was put on an antidepressant and I flipped into mania.
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Thanks for this!
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