Posted by Raisinb on February 6, 2012, at 20:22:40
In reply to Re: lithium » Raisinb, posted by SLS on February 6, 2012, at 14:28:23
Hi Scott,
Yes, it did, although I have seen a significant resurgence of extreme irritability in the last to years, all due to a job I've had during this time. Don't know if it's circumstances or bp2. I described a time in my early twenties to a pdoc in the hospital--a time when I had obsessive eating/weight issues--couldn't go over 90 lb, had to run at least 50 mi per week--and it subsided pretty much completely in a few years. He said true eating disorders don't really go away; that it sounded more like dyshoric hypomania.I guess since Wellbutrin inhibits dopamine reuptake, I felt it could be a different story than ssri induced mania, and I have never had a hypomanic reaction to an ssri.
My depressions are fairly typical. Total anhedonia, feelings of meaninglessness, worthlessness, culminates in an inability to even talk, because I feel it's so futile. I lose a lot of weight and have insomnia if I don't take Xanax to control it. I'll start stockpiling meds for suicide attempts in fairly short order if it happens. My pdoc says the severity of the depressions alone suggest BP.
It is confusing to me, because I always attached my moods to external circumstances, especially relationship and work issue (had a borderline diagnosis at one time, too, which really seemed to fit), but the bp2 dx makes sense when they explain it, and the conventional wisdom says that border lines do not recover, while I have overcome almost all of my "borderline" behaviors in the past few years. I go back and forth. I guess now I'm in a place where i'll be happy with a combo that works and not worry about pinning down a dx so much.
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