Posted by Katia on May 8, 2003, at 15:25:43
In reply to Re: Help! I think I may be manic! » Katia, posted by Squiggles on May 8, 2003, at 8:23:27
> Katia,
>
> Did these same symptoms ever occur before Zoloft,
> or after discontinuing it?
>
> Squiggles
These feelings are familiar, but I hadn't experienced it this full-on in quite awhile. I really cannot remember; only that these feelings feel familiar. The other thing is I started on Serzone almost two weeks ago (9 days). i also still sleep LATE am quite lethargic, but also can be highly energized in a bad way - not bright eyed euphoric way. Even in the midst of depressions in the past (in retrospect) there has been a strong fiery energy that has actually gotten me through w/o help or support or even knowledge that what I was suffering from was depression. Perhaps I have mixed states? I'm 32 and except for a brief period when I was 17/18 (the time of graduation from high school), I've never experienced that euphoric feeling that mania is often described like.
That summer of '88 may have been just about me feeling intensely happy to be alive b/c I was graduating from high school and I instantly moved to a beach for the summer - a string of islands. just after that summer I crashed into a bad depression when I moved back home. It's the first feel depression I remember, apart from the teenage crazies.
anyway, I have gotten such little support around this and this board has given me so much more than any pdoc I've seen so I'm really just trying to stay aware of my emotions instead of ignoring signs and just going with it out of familiarity. A lot of my energy now is pure cynicism and a sneering at the world; an intolerance of people and anger and then, fatigue.
tks.katia
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