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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom
Anyone else see themselves like this? Yes, I'm always asking why is it BP and not BPD. I don't know the difference between aggravated depression and mixed episode. I don't see one. I'm sure I get depressed but hypo-manic I don't see it. It's not an illness unless it affects you're life or the lives around you negatively. What has your pdoc or t said about bpd vs. bp vs. just human?
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Thanks for your reply, sorry to hear you have been suffering the same.
I can't see the difference between agitated depression & a mixed episode either except maybe more pure hypomania/mania symptoms when mixed (grandiosity, lack of need for sleep), where agitated depression is more depression with psychomotor agitation?
Most of them (T, 2 mental health nurses & my original pdoc) say bipolar. My new pdoc says mixed depression & anxiety. No one has ever mentioned BPD, that's just me because I have some bipolar like symptoms but the same ones that BPD shares, the mood episodes are more like BPD or ultra rapid cycling. I've seen some originally dx BP2 only to be changed to BPD after extended treatment.
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Dx: Bipolar II, GAD, past substance abuse, temporal lobe epilepsy.
Rx: Lamotrigine 125mg, Sertraline 50mg, Clonazepam 0.5mg prn.
Last edited by Wanderlust90; Feb 19, 2016 at 10:06 PM.
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