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Originally Posted by Shazerac
Like the others said. Your T is not a doctor.
NO hypomania does not automatically escalate to mania. I've been hypomanic many times and it did not turn into mania. And what if your hypomania last 6 days instead of 7. It's just an arbitrary cut off used for diagnostic purposes.
Also there is rapid cycling. I've experienced severe depression and hypomania with a 24 time span.
What he's saying about the antidepressant induced mania is flat out wrong. When a depressed person takes an antidepressant and they get mania. That's a bingo! It indicates that the depressed person is in fact bipolar, but spends a lot of time depressed.
I would give some serious thought to finding A new T or Pdoc. Of course you don't WANT to be bipolar. But if you are and don't receive adequate treatment it will lead to a great deal of suffering.
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Originally Posted by Wonderfalls
The DSM-5 changed its mind with this volume and decided that mania brought on by an antidepressant does in fact merit a bipolar diagnosis. Your therapist sounds full of himself to me.
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First of all, thanks for this thread. This is my current concern. I've been diagnosed with ADHD by my therapist but on antidepressants for anxiety. My mood has now escalated to, what I might consider, hypomania state for the last 3 or 4 days now. I'll watch it again tomorrow and then check in with my psychiatrist on Monday.
To the OP, you're taking something for bipolar, right? How are you feeling now?