Posted by stargazer2 on November 22, 2009, at 7:52:47
In reply to Re: Talked to pdoc. He makes no sense AT ALL. » floatingbridge, posted by Girlnterrupted78 on November 8, 2009, at 19:21:35
GI,
Hi, I used to follow Babble fairly closely but not in awhile as things are back to some sort of normalcy (NOT) right now.
I just happened upon your post and read briefly between the lines and had some thoughts that I wanted to share, if not for anything else, for general comments.
I have had TRD for a long time(30yrs) and I believe we had similar courses of meds, symptoms, etc. I'm on Nardil and have been on stimulants too.
JUst a brief comment and again, I did not have the time to read every post and word in each post.
When I have had shades of being hypomanic, I was unable to discern what was normal, non depressed and what was leaning towards hypermanic. I really believe the person who is hypomanic will be unable to really know for sure and describe all of the symptoms they have at the time to another person. It is almost impossible to know for sure as they are really on a continuum from normal to manic and I think everyone has this from time to time.
Feeling better is great and shades of hypomanic are fine, unless they progress and turn into something else.
I did have a sense that there may be some hypomanic symptoms in some of your posts, but I know from being in this situation myself, it would be very hard to see. Sometimes the only way I can explain it would be, you (one who may be hypomanic) have the ability to describe a situation in so much detail, that it comes across in a hypomanic way. This is only to suggest, others that are not hypomanic could not analyze something to this degree or even care to, as it takes up so much energy, the "normal" person would not use energy in that wasy. I'm not sure I'm explaining this correctly, but it is how I see it, be it right, wrong, or really just my observations.
I know that for myself, when I might be a tad hypomanic, I would get overly focused on the details and the average, perhaps normal person, couldn't care less about my insight, as it is too much, or unimportant, for them to follow. MY husband may say stop talking about something when I don't shutup and am obsessing about something, that I should "let go"
Just remember you are one of probably many persons your psychiatrist will see in a day with all of their stories and symptoms and he probably doesn't have the energy, time, whatever it may be to always be where you want him to be at all times.
I think persons with our conditions can be quite a handful for anymone to manage. Although some of the best docs are empathetic, they are only human and can't be right about every situation all the time. Being human has a lot of frailities and we have to understand this, even when dealings with so-called experts. They are not always right, and are only going by the situation as you describe it to them, so some of this is based on our own anaylysis of a situation, which may perceived incorrectly, when we are depressed, hypomanic, etc.
What I now see on this site is many very intelligent persons in the midst of choas and suffering and the time and effort many spend here is exhausting, to be able to follow when you just jump in every few days or weeks. That is not something that others will ever understand unless you are experiencing it yourself.
Be well and hope my comments are not taken in any other ways than observational, as they certainly are not meant to be critical of anyone that is in the middle of treatment to find answers for their conditions. NO two people here are coming from the exact same place.
Stargazer
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