Posted by Lisa2712 on March 14, 2009, at 17:52:36
In reply to Re: help-what's wrong w/ me? Is it mania?, posted by polarbear206 on March 14, 2009, at 17:32:42
The psychiatrist I saw a few years ago did diagnose me as having bipolar disorder, the NP I saw recently told me I didn't have it.
If anything I sleep more than I should and feel tired a lot but this could be from the AD. Like I said I'm either full of too much energy or exhausted. Sometimes I feel agitated and frustrated. Yes, I feel like a motor is running fast inside me and it won't stop, and I was told this by my high school teachers. For me it always seems like everyone else is going 50 mph and I'm going like 150 mph. If I wasn't on 20 mg lexapro I'd be a lot worse than I am now, the lexapro has helped to slow me down a little bit but I'm still far from being normal. No, my sleeping habits stay the same.> >
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> > Can anyone tell me what's wrong with me? Is this mania?
> > I go very fast and I've always gone very fast; teachers in high school used to ask me if I was ok because I always seemed to be so hyper; even now it seems I'm either going very fast or I'm exhausted. Like people around me get red faced and nervous, people in cars next to me zoom off, people speed up around me, like this is contagious. Four years ago I went to a psychiatrist who diagnosed me as being bipolar and at the time I didn't fully believe her because I didn't have mood swings and I didn't think I had depression, and I remember her saying it was because of the way I was acting and my fast, incoherent, pressured speech. I now think maybe that psychiatrist was right and I went to a different nurse practitioner a few weeks ago to see if she would allow me to try another med for my hyperness in addition to the lexapro I'm taking but after doing an evaluation she told me I wasn't bipolar. If I had gone to that 1st psychiatrist now and was offered to go on a mood stabilizer I would definetely have tried it to see if it would help. I've been on 20 mg Lexapro for about 6 months for anxiety.
> > Can anyone help me and tell me what could be wrong with me? Is this mania?
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> > Thank you,
> > Lisa
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> First of all, you should only be diagnosed by a trained Psychiatrist and not an NP. I would suggest you do some research on Bipolar. There are different forms of Bipolar. You could very well have an underlying Bipolar disorder. How much sleep do you get? Do you have episodes of anger/agitation? Do you feel like a motor is running inside of you and it won't stop? Do you have periods of sleeping too much followed by periods of needing less sleep? Family history?
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