Posted by McPac on October 1, 2002, at 23:26:51
In reply to Re: Help!!! What do I do now?, posted by polarbear206 on October 1, 2002, at 12:35:35
Please tell me what you think of this:
I have major depression, ocd and anxiety (& this anger/temper problem).
Zoloft has worked very well for my depression and ocd....Lithium has worked very well for my 'nerves' and temper (everybody knows that lithium is a MOOD stabilizer but I have always known (as Dr. Amen writes in one of his books also) that Lithium can also be a very effective NERVE stabilizer...it has done wonders for me when my nerves feel like they are totally falling apart. As far as bipolar, I'm sure that I could fit that category because the bipolar diagnosis and criteria for meeting bipolar has been 'stretched' out to include so much...and it's being stretched even further and further still...soon you'll have people saying, "I'm Bipolar 7 or Bipolar 19...instead of just Bipolar 1 & 2 (I believe there already is a bipolar 3 & 4;thought I'd read that).....at first bipolar meant the extreme swings from high-low...then, swings from 'kind of high' (hypomanic) to low....now, depression + anger, and more 'combos' are coming....pretty soon it will be something like this---"I have depression and I also like to sleep in on the weekends"---that will be Bipolar 12 or something...I've read a Dr's commentary on just that---that bipolar is being stretched too much...what's next, "I have depression and I go jogging a lot"---that will be Bipolar 43......I was thinking about trying klonopin but I didn't know if it could handle the anger/temper component...I knew it worked well for anxiety...could you please tell me your opinion of the pros and cons of taking klonopin...AND could it work well for bad intermittent anger/temper? Lastly, I read that long-term benzo use could CAUSE depression---what do you think of that? Thank You so much...I will be looking for your reply! P.S. There is a VERY good chance that the Zoloft is actually CAUSING my anger/temper problems...I did NOT have the problem on non-SSRI's anti-dep.'s (I also had TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE temper/agitation on Prozac!!! I may, in fact, be taking the Lithium BECAUSE of the temper caused by the Zoloft!!
poster:McPac
thread:121728
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20020930/msgs/121904.html