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Originally Posted by BessieRabbit1
I have been taking Lithium supplements to help with my moods since March of 2015. It seems to help me a little. All of my life I have lived with symptoms similar to bipolar and autism, but never had a doctor tell me that had mental issues. When I stopped taking the supplement for a month, I got depressed again. My mom was bipolar and had schizophrenia. As I get older, my moods seem to get worse especially when my workload increases. For six months after my mother had passed away, I was so depressed that I was not hungry. I finally went to a counselor.
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I think my depressed moods are getting worse as I've aged. (I'm getting close to 50 now). Depression goes beyond feeling bad to feeling like I have a hangover or the flu. I feel terrible every morning. Sometimes it goes away near lunch time and other times it goes on until evening or bed time. When it goes away, it is instantaneous and suddenly the gears in my brain that were frozen begin to turn normally again. When I was younger, depression made me unhappy and suicidal, but now depression is more like being sick.
Your mention of schizophrenia is also interesting. In 2009, I had a psychotic mental breakdown. It didn't really fit the norms of psychosis just as my depression doesn't fit the norms of depression. All my problems seem to be brief compared to the standards.