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Old Jul 26, 2015, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by jo_thorne View Post
What symptoms in particular do you think mark your depression as atypical? Is it this one?

"The main characteristic of atypical depression that distinguishes it from melancholic depression is mood reactivity. In other words, the person with atypical depression will see his or her mood improve if something positive happens. In melancholic depression, positive changes will seldom bring on a change in mood."

I copied that from an article on WebMD.

I have found that when my antidepressant stops working, my depression becomes atypical in the sense that I have the mood reactivity listed above.

My diagnosis is MDD (major depressive disorder), though. If I am not taking an antidepressant, my mood will become unresponsive to positive changes.

I just read another article that lists a whole list of other symptoms that it says are common with atypical depression. I have never felt that I understood clearly what atypical depression was, and this is why. The sources I see conflict. Very confusing!
Thanks for the links. I did look up on WedMD, which is what made me realize I have it. I always find my mood improve if I find something happy happening like me going to a ComicCon (nerd here). I always find my mood change if something happy happens but I have a depressed mood under that. Also, I have excessive sleepiness (if I am allowed to sleep in), increase appetite and weight gain, and a more intense reaction or increased sensitively to rejection. You only need 4 out of 2 and I have three. I don't really feel paralyzed so. I also have some of the other symptoms described in the second link. I'm not really understanding the difference between bipolar I or II.