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Oct 04, 2014, 02:59 PM
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I was diagnosed with clinical depression years ago. I go into depression...deep depressions. Thinking I finally found the "miracle" med...Limictal...I'm ecstatic! Howver, I've started noticing (over a year) manic episodes. I was getting less and less sleep. Felt great during the day...didn't feel tired. Switched the time of day I take lamictal...no longer at night...sleeping better. CRAZY...manic and crashing...hard. I just started a new job and will be starting school in January. I can't function like this. I lost two jobs a year ago because of my "confusion". I'm aware of my mood swings and now do not respond to my crazy perseptions of what people say to me. In my depressive time my voice of reason gets quieter and quieter and the crazy voice takes over and I go to dark places and suicide. Right now I still have the voice of reason. Any suggestions? Meds? Practice at not "reacting"? (I find this very exhausting) I'm desperate. Buster
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Oct 04, 2014, 05:26 PM
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Hi Buster1959, have you considered seeing a psychiatrist? They can decide if you need meds, therapy is always helpful too.
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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” -St. Francis of Assisi Diagnosis: Schizoaffective disorder Bipolar type PTSD Social Anxiety Disorder Anorexia Binge/Purge type |
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Oct 05, 2014, 10:47 AM
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Welcome to PC. It doesn't seem to me the Lamictal would be causing this but you never know. Have you told your psychiatrist about all these symptoms? I have not heard of Lamictal causing hypomania or mania, it supposed to do the opposite but who knows. Is that the only thing you take?
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman Major Depressive Disorder Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun. Recovering Alcoholic and Addict Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide. Male, 50 Fetzima 80mg Lamictal 100mg Remeron 30mg for sleep Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back |
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