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Re: bipolar sleep problems

Posted by yesac on June 13, 2005, at 11:14:03

In reply to Re: bipolar sleep problems » yesac, posted by barbaracat on June 12, 2005, at 21:58:39

> Your symptoms sure sound like bipolar to me. I went through 25 years resisting the label because of the standard descriptors of 'manic' we all think we're familiar with. One does not have to to manic in the classic sense. Irritability, agitation and severe anxiety can work just fine as the 'manic' phase, and depression should be in there somewhere as well.


Yeah, in the past 2 or 3 years I've started to wonder about the bipolarity thing, mostly because I wasn't having any success with antidepressants, and because of the extreme agitation that I experience. I resisted even just having a diagnosis of depression... but at this point if I was diagnosed as bipolar I probably wouldn't mind that much. I almost feel as though I'd be more comfortable telling people I'm bipolar just because it feels a little bit more accurate to me than unipolar.

I certainly have never had any kind of full blown manic episode, and I don't expect that I ever will, but I do experience these other more hypomanic types of symptoms. But also I've never ever felt *good*. If anything, it's always been more of a mixed state type of thing, really extreme irritability and agitation without any kind of happiness or euphoria or elated mood. And I'm not sure that it's episodic exactly... it's more like chronic, waxing and waning, but never really going away.

Oh well. I know in the end it's not the diganosis that matters, but more the treatment that happens to work, regardless of what my diagnosis is. And I think that with the lithium, I might be on the right track... but it's going to take more work (and unfortunately more drugs) to feel better, because I still don't feel very good at all. It just seems like lithium has reduced my depression to a more *normal* type of depression, without all the crazy, hyped up, activated feelings.


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