I've twice been prescribed anti-depressants while diagnosed bipolar. The second time was about a year ago. I was at a year ago. I was out at a restaurant with a friend I began beating my fingers against the table; then, the fork and knife. I couldn't stop. After several minutes of this, my friend suggested I call my doctor. Instead, I called my friend who researches brain drugs- he's a behavioral pharmacologist. He suggested that my Celexa had made me hypomanic. But the whole time he was laughing at my rate of speech and my quick wit. I admit it was a very fun conversation.
The second time- first really-, I wasn't yet diagnosed bipolar but again was out on celexa. I had driven myself to Wendy's but when I got there I had no idea how I got there. In fact, I had no idea what they did there. I could read the menu but the words made no sense at all. I looked down one hallway them back again and had zero idea where I was or how I got there or what those words meant. I called my psych dr. - different than the one I have now- and she said, "You shouldn't have been driving!"

Some people are bipolar and get along with antidepressants. I don't. When I'm depressed, they up my anti-psychotic, Zyprexa.