Posted by morgan miller on July 30, 2010, at 1:49:21
In reply to Racing/Anxiety Thoughts, Need Opinion, posted by cycling on July 29, 2010, at 14:49:07
>I've been to three different pdocs that have all agreed I have Bipolar. The catch is, is that I don't really have mood swings, rather I have symptoms that are attributed towards mania - racing thoughts, random thoughts, high confidence, etc.
Those sound like symptoms and behaviors of someone who falls under what I call the "bipolar spectrum disorders". Just curious, can you continue the list beyond etc.?
You don't have to have classic mood swings to be bipolar. And if it goes untreated, and you don't take the right precautions and protect yourself, you could end up have a very ugly episode one day. Hell, if you do well on an SSRI, which many people under the bipolar spectrum can, just staying on the SSRI and not getting off thinking you are better(what I did) could protect you from a bad bad life changing episode. I suggest you do some more research on bipolar, you might be surprised what you find. When I was in the hospital, one of the counselors there said she had seen people diagnosed with bipolar that had only experienced depressive episodes. Now, I will admit, over the past ten years or so, bipolar disorder has become the diagnosis du jor. While I do believe it has been over diagnosed for this reason, I also think there was a reason why bipolar started being diagnosed more in the first place. Are you picking up what I'm putting down?
Morgan
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