Anxiety Depression Symptom, Bipolar Disorders

Mood stabilizers – I am bipolar?

I was having real problems with my moods that I thought was due to drugs was. I was given 10 mg of Citralopram for depression and made me hyper – like two hours of sleep, talking, singing, spending loads, etc. My psychology Quetiapine gave me to help me sleep, which worked, but as soon as it disappeared was hyper again. I was constantly like a roller coaster. My psychology depressents took me off and I went from really low. Suicidal. So now put me on a mood stabilizer, Depakote. That has actually worked or has it? "I just back to normal and would have been without the pills? "I can stop taking the mood stabilizer?. My Psych said it might be bipolar. Could stabilizers of humor have worked if not Bipolar. As if it were only antidepressents that made my mood all over the place in the first place that mood stabilizers have worked? Professional … please help. Thanks

Hmm, well there are arguments in the community about whether psychatric manic episodes caused by medication are sufficient to diagnose bipolar. If you have had manic episodes, then yes, you are bipolar. If that was your only, then the views are divided. Some mood stabilizers are used for clinical depression and bipolar, so that a mood stabilizer is working for you is not necessarily a clear indication that you are bipolar. If I were you, I was just happy to have something that works. You ask if it has returned to the way they were without the drugs – remember, you were taking antidepressants for a reason, and if the Depakote prevents you from being depressed and his mood is not very high, then just be thankful that, rather than getting too caught up in what the name of the disease.

thursday 25.02.10 – no more quetiapine