Posted by Ritch on June 6, 2003, at 1:14:58
In reply to Bipolars---would you go nuts if your mood , posted by McPac on June 5, 2003, at 16:37:59
> stabilizer was discontinued?
>
> Any bipolars here ever went off their mood stabilizers? If so, did ANGER, TEMPER, IRRITABILITY and AGITATION problems return?
> Do most bipolars have terrible anger/temper/irrit. problems as part of their illness?
> I'm trying to determine whether my anger/temper problems are due to a possible bipolar condition OR if it's caused by taking ssri's! Thanks!
What happens if you back off the SSRI's? You might want to explore that one first-it would be simpler to do. I went off lithium for about two years after being on it for ten years once and the main problem was very bad depressions. No major irritability though-but got very high during the usual part of the year that is a trouble. I would call up people I hadn't talked to for awhile and talk nonstop until they hung up on me! ;)
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