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Old Feb 01, 2020, 03:10 PM
Anonymous46341
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Hi xRavenx. I'm sorry to read that you are still depressed. bluebicyle's observation about Seroquel might be something to explore with your doctor. When I am getting pure depressed with a lot of fatigue (or just stable with a lot of fatigue), my psychiatrist lowers my Seroquel XR. If I am getting manic or agitated/mixed, he often increases it with good results. I don't know what dose of Seroquel you take, but I have read that the maintenance dose to curb depression is often lower than the maintenance dose to curb mania or as a prophylaxis.

My longest pure depression was likely around a year. Maybe longer, if you add lower level depression. That was abnormal for me, since previous pure depressions usually only lasted weeks, at the longest. I attributed the long length of my worst to being "a crash" from years of mania and mania with mixed features. My doctors eventually suggested ECT because of the stubbornness of that longest depression, and my propensity to become manic (or manic with mixed features) when antidepressants or stimulant were trialed. I agreed at the second suggestion. It helped, and then made me more responsive to moodstabilizers and antipsychotics again.
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bpcyclist, Sunflower123, xRavenx
Thanks for this!
xRavenx