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Originally Posted by Happy Camper
I've doubted them all.
As for the meds that help with anxiety (I assume you're talking about SSRIs) there is only one way to be sure. I was diagnosed Bipolar 1 but they later changed that to mood disorder nos, and now I'm on Zyprexa and zoloft and the zoloft has helped tremendously. I sleep better, too. The zyprexa has made me able to think more clearly. I might be going manic but I'm not crazy now.
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What got you diagnosed BP1? And why was it changed to NOS?
In the past I've been NOS and BP 2 and now my record says BP 1 which is either a mistake or for insurance purposes.
A few years ago I was on about 75mg of zoloft (with no mood stabilizer or anything) and it flung me out of depression and into what I guess would be hypomania. When I went down to 50 it was just horrible rapid cycling between normal mood and suicidal depression. I'm on 12.5mg now which does nothing, I'm just avoiding the full-on withdrawal. I really want to go to a higher dose again...I feel like I need to know if the stuff that happened before was just a coincidence or circumstantial.