Posted by holymama on January 27, 2004, at 12:53:34
In reply to Re: I'm probably going against my pdoc's advice..., posted by polarbear206 on January 27, 2004, at 12:37:53
thanks polarbear. I will try to chart my energy levels on a chart and see how/if they corrolate with my period and the lunar cycle. As I said before, I didn't think they corrolated, but it won't hurt to check again.
What is soft cycling? Is it mild cycling between hypomania and mild depression? Because I swear that this is what I do every month, even on an antidepressant and a mood stabilizer.
I wonder if going off the antidepressant would help stabilize me? I am just so sick of managing my moods on a daily basis. I sometimes joke (or maybe it's not a joke) to my husband that I should just go off all of the meds because before I started, at least I was mostly stabilized at depression. I didn't wake up in the morning and wonder where my moods would be!!!
I think that pre meds I had some bipolar tendancys, and they would probably classify as rapid cycling -- my moods were getting to be mainly depressed, with some breaks of hypomania that would last for a few weeks and then crash back into depression. Only when I started an antidepressant did I start to cycle more frequently (once a month) and also reach a mildly psychotic mania. (mildly psychotic??? :) )
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