Posted by Noa on September 10, 1999, at 17:48:49
In reply to Back to Noa's Lithium Question ...., posted by Bob on September 10, 1999, at 14:34:41
Update on me and lithium....Today I saw my pdoc, and he recommended first increasing the effexor (xr)to 375 and seeing what happens, and if that doesn't work, the next step would be lithium He had me do the bloodwork and EKG today, to get that out of the way.
I spent some time at Barnes and Noble, reading sections of Kay Jamison's (I think the other author is Goodwin?)textbook on Manic Depressive Illness. I would like to own it, but it is expensive. It was great reading. The authors advocate conceptualizing BP disorder, and depression, as a spectrum rather than as discrete categories. This makes a lot of sense ot me, even though it is easier to study categories with boundaries than it is with a spectrum of symptom presentations that have more blurred boundaries. I am beginning to understand (and accept?) my depression as cyclical. I think I have what is called "double depression", meaning dysthymia plus a cyclical major depression that is similar to the kind of depression in BP disorder.
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