depression symptoms unipolar

It does sound confusing, so ask the doctor that diagnosed you to explain exactly why they think you have bipolar depression instead of unipolar depression. Good luck!

Hi, I noticed that no one had answered you yet, perhaps it is because there may be no clear cut answer to your question. I am sorry that you are suffering from recurrent depression. I do as well. Has your doctor talked to you about any of the various "bipolar" issues? The classic "bipolar" or "manic-depression" illness has alternating moods of depression and high-euphoria.

Depression with onset in the teen years may be a sign of bipolar spectrum disorder rather than unipolar depression. This would also explain why you have not responded well to anti-depressants in the past. For more information, google Phelps + psych education.

Hi. My father and I both suffer from BPD but never experience depression, just mania. Is this more prevalent in men?

many of the epilespy meds are used as mood stabiliers in bipolar but not in unipolar depression .Usually two or three weeks to start to kick in , keep a mood diary to get a more objective than subjective effect .

Its entirely possible to be Bipolar and fit all of the symptoms of unipolar depression and more so if depression is your most common state - major depressive episodes happen to many many bipolar's during their lives - my last one lasted nearly 3 years for example. Now I am not a doctor ok but your medications are interesting to me. You take Lithium which is a mood stabiliser and its effective on both phases; you take Seroquel which is another mood stabiliser - is this for sleep?

I have read that one difference between general depression and bipolar depression is a persons energy level. It's a matter of feeling unable to perform even the simplest daily tasks because of overwhelming fatigue, instead of the general depressive sadness, hopelessness, ambivalence, etc. Does that make sense to anyone? Another difference is the depth of depression. The suicide rate for bipolar disorder is considerably higher than general depression rates.

I take it at night. I don't fall asleep easily and I oversleep. Wierd. It does help but have anxiety, oversleep, late to work, sexual side effects (typical though), and anxiety. One doc said I'm unipolar and should try just Lamictal which I had no anxiety or depression, but cried alot and got angry easily.

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.

this question is stupid because any illness is bad, even a strong headache can make you wish to die. What I meant in terms of therapy. I mean a person having unipolar depression is difficult to treat than a person having unipolar mania. Mania harms the brain and is the cause of the kindling effect, there is no kindling effect I suppose in depression; meaning after every depressive episode the next one is worse. I read often that mania stops itself eventually even if untreated.

Hello, If you are wondering if you're Bipolar purely based on mood swings, I'd say it's probably Unipolar or some other form of depression. However, it really depends on what you mean by "mood swings" that could mean so many different sorts of emotions that you "swing" from, which makes it difficult to pin point Bipolar purely on that. However...

Neurofeedback is proven to help with insomnia, anxiety, depression, ADD, ADHD and more. Many times children who have been abused act out and the abuse isn't discovered until years later. Seeing a good child psychologist would get him/her help sooner and avoid many more years of pain. An interesting fact is that 50% of adults with Bipolar experienced child abuse. What kind of message does a child get when they are given a pill to mask symptoms of child sexual abuse?

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.

And is it also possible that my other sister with unipolar depression might turn into Bipolar, or if she was going to develop Bipolar would it have happened in her 20s, if this is what you think happened to my sister who has now been diagnosed with the ?Bipolar. Her doctor thinks it's just normal depression but she is worried. Sorry this is so long.

t remember what happened. I believe the latest thinking is that bipolar depression is different from unipolar depression and that SSRIs are nor a good idea for people with BP. They can kick you up into mania.

I have been diagnosed with unipolar depression at 17, following post-partum depression at the age of 23 or 24 almost three years after giving birth, then PTSD followed by a quick diagnosis of BP in the same year at the age of 31. I have also been disagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome, migraines and irritable bowel syndrome. In all the medical books and the DSM, the diagnoses look correct. I feel like I have been misdiagnosed my entire life.

There isn't always a clear cut reason as to why one is depressed. Have you spoken to your doctor about this? It sounds like he needs to up your dosage on the Cymbalta or change medications completely. You do have all the symptoms of depression, but your meds aren't doing their job. This is very common, and sometimes it's trial and error as to what will work best for you, and your needs.

celexa generic citalopram and brand name cipram in the the eastern countries is produced by the same Danish company which produces cipralex/lexapro/escitalopram. In different forums one finds many pts using it. it's weaker than lexapro, exactly half its therapeutic dose in maximum and minimum. BP pts take wellbutrin, celexa, lexapro in the majority of the cases. A few take seroxat/paxil to go with lamictal.

I would want some serious guarantees before embarking on surgery as experimental and expensive as this particularly as nothing I can find shows any study on Bipolar itself but rather unipolar depression - can someone post a link to anything about this being used to treat Bipolar?

During the individuals depressed mood period they will suffer from many of the symptoms of Unipolar depression however when their mood switches to mania they will have an extremely elevated mood. During a manic stage the sufferer can feel unjustified high self-esteem as well as a increased level of talkativeness. There have been numerous concordance rates of Bipolar with creativity and intelligence.

This sounds BP to me definitely but i am not a doc to tell. In which case antidepressant WORSEN symptoms and not advisable at all causing rapid cycling and mixed states/episodes; especially if you are not under an MS. You NEED a better pdoc I suppose. You can take AD's for unipolar depression i believe but i had a terrible time when on cipralex even under antipsychotics as i couldn't control my symptoms. So no need to suffer and consult a good pdoc.

It seems like current research is heading in the direction of viewing bipolarity on a spectrum, from point A being pure unipolar depression to point B being "classic manic depression" [and some even extend the spectrum to schizophrenia at point C to account for schizoaffective disorder and the prevalence of psychotic symptoms in BP]. Basically, individuals with mood disorders will fall somewhere between these two points.

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