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Re: Wellbutrin yuk - old meds... » bleauberry

Posted by SLS on May 18, 2012, at 10:19:55

In reply to Re: Wellbutrin yuk - old meds... » SLS, posted by bleauberry on May 18, 2012, at 8:52:45

> You ask some tough questions Scott that no one on the planet has any answer to.

Don't underestimate neuroscience and experienced clinical psychiatrists. They see far more than you and I, and the sophistication of their expertise would probably blow us both away.

> I'm just saying, I do not buy the premise that someone must descend into deep depression induced by a new med in order to come out well on the other side.

> I just don't buy that. Does it happen? Sure. Not reliably.

Yes. Reliably.

Sorry, but I must disagree with you here. I have seen enough people in real life (50 or more individuals in a patrial hospitalization setting) experience the almost inevitable switch into depression following mania, whether it be due to the natural course of the illness or from a biological intervention. It can be a paroxysmal event. I believe it occurs more often that depression follows mania than mania follows depression.

euthymia > mania > depression > euthymia

> Some of those people we can visit at the gravesite. Suicide is always a real risk in the back of my mind, so when I see someone's depression significantly worsened, I get all kinds of red flags and alarms going off.

I suppose I don't?

Bipolar disorder is what it is.

Anyway, I had indicated that SC should work with her doctor to decide what to do with the Trileptal and lithium. I would guess that depression preceded the application of these two drugs, as Wellbutrin was administered for a reason. If not for depression, then what? I asked SC a few questions, but received no answers.

I just don't know.


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I dream of things that never were and ask why not.

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