Depression symptoms bipolar disorder
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t until then that I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder while I was receiving treatment for my depression. Not only that but without treatment kids will most likely try to self medicate with drugs if not taken care of. My cousin is in rehab right now for her addictions and she didn't start treatment until she was 22. So again, with PROPER counseling it's better to catch the problem early on before it's too late.
My new doctor thinks I've been misdiagnosed for depression/anxiety. He says this based on everything I described to him and because general SSRI's just cause me more problems than good (high anxiety and side effects). He says I'm not BiPolar, but that I have a mood disorder, on the BiPolar Spectrum... maybe unipolar. He says he does not know exactly what kind of mood disorder yet, just that I have one. So he's trying me out on Lamictal.
I think that diagnosis is kind of controversial right now, but it does illustrate the way that bipolar illness may fall on a spectrum from straight up unipolar depression at point A to full blown manic depression at point B. Bipolar type 3 would maybe be depression with only "soft signs" of bipolar disorder.
Depression is just being down and sometimes having a normal time between periods of depression. Bipolar disorder has depressive episodes but also hypomanic or manic episodes. I would suggest going to NAMI.org for more information. It is too complex of a disorder and varies from individual to individual in the experience of it (though it does have the same basic features) to describe in one post.
As you might now, there are currently 3 widely accepted forms of bipolar disorder, that is, bipolar type I, bipolar type II, and cyclothymia. However, a spectrum view of bipolar disorder is becoming popular. For example, you can picture a line with unipolar depression (major depression only) at point A, and with full blown bipolar type I at the end of the line, point B. If a person has major depression only, then they will fall close to point A on the line.
There are so many different varities of bipolar as well from cyclothymia (mild bipolar) to bipolar with psychotic features to schizoaffective which is schizophrenia with aspects of bipolar (what I have and have recovered from). Too complex to discuss in a post but I'd answer specific questions. Go to "Depression Central" (for all mood disorders) for more comprehensive information. Its a great resource.
I did not understand mania, except the surface symptoms that we were taught in psychology. I had suffered depression for years, which is why I sought help with a psychiatrist. I was feeling depressed along with being manic. Hence my diagnoses... mixed state Bipolar I. I also rapid cycle due to the mixed state, which is where one experiences both mania and depression at the same time. It is not fun being bipolar, but I am finally getting it under control and finally on the right meds.
Although some of the symptoms of perimenopause can mimic some of the symptoms of bipolar disorder, it is unlikely that perimenopause would precipitate a full blown disorder, such as Bipolar I or Bipolar II.
It is more likely, that any mood changes you are experiencing are the result of your premenopausal state and have nothing to do with your psychological well-being.
Possible Mania:
Extremely irritable
Arrogant/over-confident (at times I honestly believe that I'm better than a lot of the people that I know. I believe I am more intelligent than them and I am going to succeed where they're going to fail. I leave essays till last minute knowing that I'm intelligent enough to get a top grade while doing it last minute. I apply for jobs thinking that there's no way I can't get them because I am so intelligent).
These two ways of looking at anxiety have substantial implications. If the symptoms are coming from bipolar disorder itself, then they should get better when the bipolar disorder gets better. But if they are coming from a separate condition, they could persist even when the bipolar disorder improves.
If your anxiety is really a separate condition, it's going to require a separate treatment.
Bipolar disorder — sometimes called manic-depressive disorder — causes mood swings that range from of the lows of depression to the highs of mania. When you become depressed, you may feel sad or hopeless and lose interest or pleasure in most activities. When your mood shifts in the other direction, you may feel euphoric and full of energy. Mood shifts may only occur only a few times a year, or as often as several times a day.
Basically borderline personality disorder involves no chemical imbalance but bipolar disorder does however. BPD involves rapid changes in emotions, much more rapid than BP, and distortions in self image and whatnot. BP involves switching from depression to hypomania, mania or a mixed state of both every few months or sometimes every day or two or even less and the depression and mania entail many other things.
A small percentage of people will continue to have symptoms, even after getting treatment for their bipolar disorder. Here are the types of bipolar disorder:
Bipolar I disorder involves episodes of severe mood swings, from mania to depression.
Bipolar II disorder is a milder form, involving milder episodes of hypomania that alternate with depression.
Cyclothymic disorder describes even milder mood changes.
With mixed bipolar disorder, there is both mania and depression at the same time.
Sounds like you are having some symptoms of bipolar disorder. I too was diagnosed by a PCP for depression before I started having mania. I was diagnosed by a psychiatrist and that is the best individual to see about bipolar disorder. Anti-depressents can help the depression, but being on the wrong one can throw a bipolar individual into mania. I am on a mood stabilizer (Lithium) and then my anti-depressent is Wellbutrin.
Heres something i was reading and will hopefully rest ur weary minds about going insane and all k..
Common anxiety and clinical depression are types of "neurosis”. Psychosis is the term for a mental disorder that causes a person to lose touch with reality and that may cause them to have hallucinations and delusions. Mental disorders that are in the psychosis category include bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
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