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How long have you been having mixed state, and how long does that episode last?
Also for rapid cycling, same question?? What meds have helped you the most? I´ve been rapid cycling/ in a mixed state for almost a year now... with anxiety and panic attacks as well... Not one day off, no balance, good days and bad ones...mostly bad ones. exemple for mixed state: hyper and anxious in the morning, irrateble, angry....a bit depressed during the afternoon and then back to hyper in the evening with racing thoughts and can´t fall a sleep. Rapid cycling- same thing but one day hyper, next depressed or few days hyper and some depressed. It sux. I would give my left arm to get some days off, days of balance... |
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I survive...I take a mood stabiliser...stuffed if I know what it does? the rest of me is just pure stubborn. I understand the missing soul....the personal vacancy MASSIVE pain in the butt! the world is nuts...it really is.. comparisons help when you get them right ... dm |
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I've had very few mixed episodes, but they're gawdawful, and would choose depression over it. The worst 1 I had, I was as hyperactive as hell,with the determination of a pitbull. At the same time, suicidal and heartbroken for no reason,with tactile hallucination (bugs on my skin) anxiety that caused me to rip out some hair, thoughts going a 1000 mph, just for fun.I was a very angry person, angrier than usual. Lasted about a week, being at both ends of the pole at once, SUCKS! meds dont help those...
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Oh, rapid cycling, I usually do that, was worse when I was medicated 3days hypo, 3 days depressed, 1 day even. When I quit my meds, I was ultradian cycling for 2 months, few hours up, few hours down, with no normal in between. Well maybe my mood was normal in my sleep Right now my cycle has slowed down ALOT, I cant even pin down a pattern for you... I just ride these out, while practicing kicka s s self-care, so cant speak of meds and such. I know how it sucks tho, and how exhausting it is
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Last spring, my mixed state lasted three weeks. Right now, four and a half weeks and counting. Struggling big time. Weekly appts. with my p-doc. We've tried a lot of meds and are still trying to figure it out. Feeling exhausted and discouraged, though I try to "fake it till I feel it" hoping that will somehow snap me out of this. So far though...mixed state hell.
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My mixed states always last longer, though I don't have a time frame. Usually I'm mixed first, then depressed, then hypomanic, then back into mixed. When I'm mixed I'm sad, irritable, yet racing thoughts and I feel like I'm jumping out of my skin, though I have no motivation to do anything.
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I use to be really bad before I started taking lamictal five months ago. It has helped very well with my hypamania but not so well with my depression but I find my depressive episodes are less heavy...so I can deal with it but I do get those odd days where it can be quite bad. My depressive moods can be either in the morning or afternoon. I have a switch and it goes on and off each day so there's no predicting. But in between these states I have normal moods which are amazing and I don't take for granted!!!!
I'm also on abilify 10mg for my delusions and hallucinations...but have really bad episodes every so often Hope this helps somewhat Keep living it strong everyone! |
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I'm now convinced that I've been predominantly in a mixed state or cycling in and out of states including mixed states for the past year and a half. Intense depression and anxiety, mostly. Helped immensely by lamictal. ADs and anxiety meds did nothing.
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My last one lasted probably for six months ( I wasn't on any meds then) and it was hell. I hated it. I was so depressed but sped up and chatty enough that everyone thought I was hilarious.
Anyway, I basically became a drunk, booked a one way ticket to Asia, crashed hard and moved to aus where I finally got myself diagnosed. I think sodium valproate is meant to be good for mixed / rapid cycling. Works for me |
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I am so glad that I found this thread. I know that others suffer the mood swings, racing thought, rapid cycling. I've been dealing with this, for various lengths of time for years. It just kicks my ***. I can't find anythubg to distract me ski Havre to fake it until I make it. It feels like its never going to ease up so that I can breath. I really need a break. So glad to hear other peoples experiences. I don't feel like im alone. Need to Learn to cope better. Thanks. This sound silly bit I so need a hug.
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It's hard for me to say how long they last. I can shift pretty fast, within hours. I think I'm always cycling. I don't think I ever stop. I think I used to stop, when I was younger. I mostly had depresion. But now I think I'm mostly a combo of mixed and cycling so rapidly I can't tell where the tail ends and the head begins, if you see what I mean.
I think I have maybe one day breaks occasionally..... but, I think I'm less manic manic and more hypo most of the time. I would say I probably have more of a mania swing two or three times a month and then a constant low laying depression under it.... __________________ |
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I'm with Trippin'. Sounds like rapid cycling. Which, of course, sucks. I've had spells of it, but have to say, in going through a month-long mixed episode, found it to be a whole 'nother beastie. It was gawdawful. Massively depressed, and utterly hopeless, but with lots of anger and tons of negative energy. All at once. Add in a couple of full-on melt-downs (not talking flip-outs, no idea how many of those there were) and mix till well-blended. O.M.G. Not sure if I've ever done such near-nonstop scathing rants and muttering at myself (and that's saying something, because that's something I do all the time). Self-loathing was through the roof and the energy made it excruciating. I wanted to crawl out of my skin, rip my brain out and maybe slam myself into a wall at about 120mph. More than ideation and knowledge, you-know-what flashed visually through my mind on a regular basis. It.was.bad.
I'd had bursts of such a state many many times previously. But to have it go on and on? Indescribable. I don't know how BF managed to not throw me in a cage. I'd certainly have been safer in one. As far as meds, I can't help. I was thousands of miles from my psych at the time. __________________ ********* Mr. Robot Makes me sick to the heart, Oh I feel so tired. And the way the rain comes down hard, that's how I feel inside. --The Cure
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yeah, mixed state causes melt downs. I have a lot of them. 3-4 a month usually. They are terrible. But, I haven't had one in about 2 weeks. I'm really happy about that right now.
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