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Old Jul 20, 2014, 10:04 AM
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Is it possible to swing into deep depression and then bounce back to an elevated mood all in one day? This is crazy! I could not function when I was depressed. I crashed on the sofa all yesterday morning. I was still depressed but feeling better. By the evening my depression vanished. Then by the end of the evening I felt just fine and energetic looking for something to do. I was up until 3 AM before I started to feel sleepy.
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Old Jul 20, 2014, 10:13 AM
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I was recently diagnosed BP II and this happens to me as well. So I'm not sure if it's common, but you're definitely not alone in experiencing this.
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Old Jul 20, 2014, 10:26 AM
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sure, why not?
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Old Jul 20, 2014, 11:43 AM
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I'm convinced, that yes, it is definitely possible.

I was having mood swings like you are describing about three months ago, then I got on some different medications.

All was "perfect" (in the eyes of my pdoc) for around 2 months. No recognizable mood swings, no major fights/arguments, no suicidal thoughts, and I actually liked going to work.

But then... I stopped taking all my meds (because I'm an idiot) and within two weeks I was back to the same things. Everything is completely unstable. Up one day and down the next. I'm all over the place.

I can't lie, I got off of my meds because I felt limited. I couldn't think (I mean ponder thinking, not decision making) deeply about anything. I just didn't seem to really attack any goal. It felt like being a grown man stuck in kiddy pool when the deep end is right next to you, but you don't quite know how to go from one to the other.

Maybe it was the wrong meds, maybe I have to accept instability in return for intelligence. I hope it's the former.

Sorry I got off topic. Dang tangents...

But yes, I think it's possible.


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Old Jul 20, 2014, 11:55 AM
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Yes absolutely it's possible. I've had the same experience. I've been battling it for a few months now. My doc says it's a mixed episode.

Not fun by all means.

I hope it corrects itself for you
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Old Jul 20, 2014, 03:20 PM
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Actually if I'm not mistaken, its called ultradian cycling, mixed would be experiencing symptoms of both depression and hypomania simultaneously.

And yes I too have experienced it so it definitely is possible. Mine was due to cold turkeying my meds, I would wake up hopelessly suicidal, even out and be baseline by lunch time and then be gloriously hypomanic in the evening. most exhausting and confusing 3 months of my life.
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