Posted by Ritch on August 11, 2002, at 10:54:54
In reply to quicksilver mood changes, posted by may-b on August 10, 2002, at 13:55:09
> Hi all
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> Has anyone had ever had the experience of mood changes that are so rapid that the changes in mood are almost like channel surfing? Without any time even for the mood to "land" and register... These experiences of millisecond mood changes lasted only a minute or two but were extremely disturbing. Usually the mood at the end of the "surfing" would be rather low and bewildered.
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> Thoughts?
> -may-bThat sounds a little spooky. I am sure there are ultra rapid-cyclers (I am "just" a rapid-cycler) out there that have had those experiences. Just before I was dx'ed with bipolar when I was 19 (a week or two before I saw a pdoc), I was flipping drastically within the space of an hour at times (with no meds at all). A friend gave me 10mg of Valium at the time and I remember this strange complete resolution of all of the symptoms within an hour. The part that sounds "spooky" that you describe is the "low" and "bewildered" state following. That could be a temporal lobe seizure. Are you on meds for bipolar, now? If so, you might want to get a referral to a neurologist for an EEG, just to be safe. I get some strange things happen when I am hypomanic too (intrusive music, sense of floating, temper spells), but my standard EEG's came out OK, so who knows? I take Depakote and it definitely "quiets down" all of that stuff.
Mitch
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