My success stories end up in stopping meds or at least that is the goal I know that isn't going to work everybody. The celexa a number of years ago kicked me out. I would come home from work and organize my music the whole weekend... Mostly tagging it and adding information from the web. Very time consuming and now I stream it! I think I was in a bit of hibernation but at least I wasn't sleeping all the time which would have been worse. That's the good part. When I stabilized I should have come off it but I will stop the story right there.

"Now I always get a little manic for awhile when I come out of a depression and I could be that it has just run its course again and I am snapping out of it like usually happens with me and it has nothing to do with meds. But I know that is not the case. I know my body and mind well after all these years and I can totally tell it is the meds. From the side effects which I am having some but nothing real bad and the fact that I am getting real wired and different effects I cannot explain. But I can totally tell it is different from the other times and it is the meds."

This "manic" phase... Is it really hypomania? It could indeed be a natural part of your cycle. I have mentioned the creative energy in my own experience. It is not unusual. Beethoven wrote his arguably best work after coming out of a deep depression. I suspect you could find this behavior in scientists too. Think of it like waking up where the depression was a time of processing. While I know you believe it is the meds it might still be a good time to take advantage of that energy and do something you haven't been able to in a while.

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