Posted by JahL on April 10, 2002, at 22:47:57
In reply to Re: Social Phobia and sulpride, posted by jonh kimble on April 10, 2002, at 22:18:01
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> > Yeah. I should point out that I'm also Bipolar II (often comorbid w/ s. phobia) and Lamictal is my primary mood stabilizer. The Lamictal doesn't actually help the s. phobia tho'.
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> Hey JahL, didnt know you had bi polar, hope your feeling better on whatever u r taking.Hi Jonh. Not really :-(. Better than I would be tho'. I'm v. treatment resistant.
> If u read my above post i said that i never experience mood swings.
I never have mood swings either. Just unremitting depression characterised by anhedonia especially; apathy, powerful suicidal & homocidal thoughts, chronic insomnia, anxiety, agitation, ADD-like symptoms....the usual stuff. Lots of soft Bipolarity in my family too. Before the BP really kicked in I was considered dysthymic.
>thoughts which makes me somewhat doubtful about the possiblilty of bi polar, although the description of anhedonia was quite accurate. I always lack drive and motivation, and these are sometimes characteristics of dysthymia.
Soft Bipolar can be a hard one to diagnose; it took 4 years to persaude psychiatrists that I was BP. What proved I was on the soft BP spectrum was my dramatic responses to SSRIs. On the first one I woke up one day 'cured' and then started cycling btwn never-before-experienced euthymia & dysphoria. Lamictal made me hypomanic, another possible BP indicator.
I have no idea whether you're Bipolar or not but trying a mood stabilizer wouldn't hurt if you've failed a lot of other meds. I (scan) read a rpt the other day that suggested 'Bipolars' respond more favourably depression-wise than 'Unipolars' to Lamictal. Maybe this is a possible marker. Dunno.
Of course I can't tell you how or where to get Sulpiride but as an online pharmacy veteran I can tell you that it's pretty hard (but not impossible) to find. Not a big seller I suppose.
Best,
J.
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