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Old Jun 27, 2020, 05:54 PM
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How severe and frequent are your manic/hypomanic episodes? Sometimes an antidepressant can be used for anxiety and that might help, but there is a risk of causing mania. Antipsychotics like zyprexa are pretty good at mitigating that risk though.
Like others have said, Seroquel is pretty good for anxiety too.
Not very severe right now. I'm on zyprexa already, I'm on viibryd for my antidepressant. I'm also on invega, so adding a new antipsychotic isnt practical. I could see about switching to seroquel but I've gained a lot of weight already on these meds...I'll talk to my psychiatrist...
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