Posted by catmint on January 31, 2003, at 2:08:28
In reply to Re: Anyone hear have the bipolar II/depression mixup » jumpy, posted by Ritch on January 31, 2003, at 0:25:36
My understanding is that all depressive symptoms are commonly shared among bipolars and unipolars, but I read somewhere that bipolar depressives sleep and eat a lot! I've also heard that bipolar depression is especially deep and prolonged but I know plenty of unipolar depressed people who have it just as bad.
It is also well documented, as Ritch said in the previous post, that standard antidepressants are not effective as monotherapy for bipolars because of the risk of inducing mania.
So, if you have responded to SSRIs or Wellbutrin without becoming unglued then you probably have unipolar depression.
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