Wellbutrin made me manic and psychotic. But it wasn't until I started having full-blown manic episodes on my own that I was diagnosed with bipolar 1. Mania resulting from antidepressant use didn't use to count toward that diagnosis until the new DSM changed it. (That's the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders which is the Bible for diagnosticians.) So now you can be called BP 1 even if your only manic episode was touched off by an antidepressant.
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DX: Bipolar 1
Anxiety
Tardive dyskinesia
Mild cognitive impairment
RX: Celexa 20 mg
Gabapentin 1200 mg
Geodon 40 mg AM, 60 mg PM
Klonopin 0.5 mg PRN
Lamictal 500 mg
Levothyroxine 125 mcg (rx'd for depression)
Trazodone 150 mg
Zyprexa 7.5 mg
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