Need Help and Feedback! Bipolar?!

[TheCrimson]

Hello everyone. Since middleschool I have struggled with depression, but as time went on I would think maybe it was something more. Eventually i thought it was just nothing and just saw myself as depressed. I am now 19 and these past few weeks people have noticed I've been acting different. There are times where I talk really fast and have a flood of thoughts and ideas just pop into my head all at once and i feel extremely energetic, seem jumpy, my movements seem to appear very quick and rushed as well.Also, during times like these i tend not to really eat or sleep. I remember one day i only had about 4 hours of sleep and I felt fine. During times like these i feel amazing and i say i'm fine but i notice that my behavior doesn't seem like the usual me due to people's reactions. Before and after i have moments like these i usually feel depressed and the exact opposite. I feel drained, sluggish, irritable, and just really down. After speaking with my psychiatrist and describing what i have been experiencing lately, she told me i was experiencing episodes of hypomania and because of this i could possibly be bipolar. Could I have a type of bipolar disorder? Lately this seems to happen more than once in the time span of a day.

 

[helpneedednow]

first i am so sorry this is happening to you. you are too young to be suffering from this illness, i hope you dont have it. if you do it is better you treat it now so you can live a normal life. i am over twenty years older than you and it was too late when i found out i had it. if you need to take medication for it as i do then do it. stavzor really helped control my mind racing, calmed me down, and helped me sleep at night. i felt so much better after a month with that and another anti depressant drug that you could not even tell i had this illness any longer. before i had tremendous problems with my speech which are almost gone now and that also is a biproduct of my bipolar. i hope everything works out well for you and you get help because i destroyed my family before i got help and now i have to pick up all the pieces and start over. PLEASE DONT WAIT FOR THAT TO HAPPEN, I DONT WISH THAT ON MY WORST ENEMY!!!!!!!!!!! good luck and ill watch for you to see what course you are taking. i pray for you that you will make the right decision!!!! GOD BLESS

 

[Kristen.NewCreation]

If your psychiatrist told you that bipolar is a possibility I'd listen to your psychiatrist. Only she can diagnose the bipolar disorder.

Did she recommend a medication change or talk to you about what bipolar is?

 

[TheCrimson]

yes she did. I was on prozac before along with abilify. I stopped taking both for a while but went back on the prozac recently. after that appointment which was the most recent, i was put back on both medications since abilify is a mood stabilizer. hopefully it will help.