Posted by Bob on March 21, 2008, at 15:54:43
In reply to Re: Bipolar III caused by antidepressants?, posted by dbc on March 21, 2008, at 15:21:23
The BP spectrum is vague at best but the treatments are all the same and mood stabilizers are the main drugs of choice for them rather than anti-depressants.
So what happens when someone like me comes along who has a strange BP variant and responds badly to ADs, but then goes into a sedated unipolar type depression on "mood stabilizers"? In my experience, the mood stabilizers I am able to tolerate such as Lithium or Depakote turned me into a Rip Van Winkle zombie with not motivation or energy. Oddly, there are a number of ADs that do this also.Seems that any drug that is moderately activating I cannot tolerate, and the ones I can tolerate end up as strong sleep meds.
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