For several years when I would treat depression like it was unipolar (withholding prior diagnosis) I would get Prozac or Cymbalta and it would pull me out of depression, but I would get irritable and arrogant (I realized the former more than the latter). I did not realize it was hypomania. During that time I would have said zero and been wrong. It may be that Jennifer's pdoc thinks something like that is going on.
For about 20 years up until a couple of months ago, I got about 1 or 2 a year. With new meds, I can't really make a prediction but I am on my third in 10 weeks.
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|Up and down
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|Pink Floyd - Us and Them
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|bipolar II, substance use disorder, ADD
|lamictal, straterra
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