Posted by may-b on August 11, 2002, at 16:11:23
In reply to Re: quicksilver mood changes » may-b, posted by Ritch on August 11, 2002, at 10:54:54
Hi Mitch
Thanks for your response.
> That sounds a little spooky.
It sure was that.> 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.
That's a good point. I have found 2.5 mg valium helpful when experiencing intractible anxiety. If I could only remember to take it... :)
>The part that sounds "spooky" that you describe is the "low" and "bewildered" state following. That could be a temporal lobe seizure.
I think it was that spooked feeling that I was trying to describe with the word "bewildered".
> 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.
I have discussed the possibility of bipolar dx with the doc but since I usually appear to be plain old unipolar, she thought this unlikely. I was dx'd with a double depression -- "dysphoria with major depression".
Thanks for your information. I always enjoy your posts.-may-b
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