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You say you've been diagnosed with depression. I was diagnosed with depression also for 30yrs...but they were wrong! I was given Cymbalta too in 2000, and it shot me into orbit: blew the best job I ever had, started a meth & alcohol addiction, got a divorce, made horrendous family altering decisions that still affect me today, and wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on a spending obsession. You are holding it together right now doing positive things while I searched out the negative...but that doesn't mean you may not be creeping toward hypomania.
These days we know giving someone who is truly bipolar an antidepressant by itself without a mood stabilizer increases the chance they will go off hypomanic/manic. The way you are reacting to the Cymbalta gives me shivers from my memory of that terrible decade that changed me negatively forever.
Could your diagnosis be wrong? My psychs kept missing my bipolar diagnosis because I had lifelong friends...a career, and was very social. They get really myopic sometimes and don't look at the big picture.
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