mixed bipolar episode
bereavement bipolar question?
My father died on July 11 and am having a very hard time with him. I have bipolar disorder and I'm not on any medication. I had a month stellar few, no mood swings, aggression or depression. However, as in recent times, my depression has returned to its heyday and so has my aggression and mood swings. I've been told by my therapist that this can happen to anyone who is grieving and not necessarily the beginning of my mixed episode of bipolar disorder. I'm not sure if over time this will happen or if my parents death was a massive release is going to send me back into madness. Somebody somewhere Once was a similar problem that may offer some advice?
I went all medications for a couple of years and then the risk of being only an antidepressant. After many tragedies that could not remain stable for what was put on a mood stabilizer. Well, I guess I've become dependent on it as I had a period of mania when not taking the medication for two days. Now I know better. It was about 15 years between my two episodes of mania and it was very successful and productive in the middle. Sorry for your loss. I have been having nightmares of my dying father. My psychiatrist says he was just luck of the years that I was not in a stabilizer mood and I think that might also be the case with you. Maybe you should get something, a low dose, just to be sure because the last thing I want do is have a psychotic episode. The depression that follows is harrowing. I hope you do the right thing for you and may God bless you and your family.
END OF THE ROPE. B-ROCK/bipolar disorder
