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Re: Bipolar questions » Jimmyboy

Posted by polarbear206 on August 29, 2007, at 16:27:45

In reply to Bipolar questions, posted by Jimmyboy on August 29, 2007, at 15:14:17

> 1. I tend to feel good about 3 months a year, ok for about 3 months and terrible the remaining time.. no mania or hypomania. have anxiety and panic along with it almost all the time, whether I feel bad or not. Would this be classified as Bipolar II or something else?
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> 2. As I get older it seems to get worse and worse, is this a common pattern? Does it tend to continually get worse the older you get?
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> 3. Has anyone gotten considerable periods of remission by taking medication? everytime I start to feel better, I know its just fleeting and the depression and terrible anxiety will come back and wreck all the progress I made while feeling normal..
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> Thanks
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> JB

I bet you feel better in the summer months? You don't have to have full blown hypomania to have a diagnosis of bipolar. There are milder subtypes that just present as anxiety/panic with depression. If left untreated, it will get worse over time, thus harder to treat for some people. Are you taking any medication? My winter slumps have greatly improved since I have been on Lamictal.

Polarbear


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