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Posted by NikkiT2 on December 1, 2000, at 6:33:50
OK, I tried, but I can't do it :o)
Anyway, all week I've been getting very very manic for a few hours each day. Totally over excited, running around like a headless chicken, talking complete crap to people, shopping off the internet like theres no tomorrow... It's not that I don't like the manic episodes (we know we all love them really!), but theres two things...
1) I'm not getting any work done. My concentration span is about 10 minutes.. then wander off to talk to someone else, search another internet site, stare out the window, have a ciggarette etc... I'm gonna get caught out soon...
2) I'm terrified that, after being really stable on effexor for the last 4 months, this is the beginning of a crash. I've also had quite tearful periods (not depressed, just tearful!!).
It all started on my birthday (10 days ago) when I got *really* drunk on Long Island Iced tea's... I was so so hyper that night, and have been cycling ever since.
Please tell me I'm not facing a crash for christmas (with my -inlaws.. eurgh!)
Nikki xx
Posted by Noa on December 1, 2000, at 17:01:25
In reply to Hypomanic, so can't stay away!!!, posted by NikkiT2 on December 1, 2000, at 6:33:50
Nikki, I don't know, sorry, hon. What has helped in the past to calm and stabilize you?
Posted by Emmanuela on December 1, 2000, at 20:15:50
In reply to Re: Hypomanic, so can't stay away!!!, posted by Noa on December 1, 2000, at 17:01:25
> Nikki - time to call your pdoc, eh? And sooner than later...
Keep posting.
Emmanuela
Posted by S. Howard on December 1, 2000, at 21:22:51
In reply to Hypomanic, so can't stay away!!!, posted by NikkiT2 on December 1, 2000, at 6:33:50
Nikki-
I think you just answered your own question, babe...Christmas. It can send us into a tailspin because we're supposed to do certain things, and we don't want to, and feel a certain way, and sometimes we can't.
My in-laws aren't too bad. What I love best about them is that they live halfway across the country.
My own family makes me crazy (no pun intended);
they're so incredibly high-maintenance, I kind of hate them by the time they leave. I always make gallons of rum-spiked eggnog, although I don't bother too much with the eggnog part by day 2 or 3...
This isn't very sporting, but maybe just for this year you could have a terrible toothache and must skip the in-laws? I have a cousin who always gets a "migraine" at the appropriate time. This doesn't bother me at all, I think she's smart.
Hang in there-
Gracie
Posted by Noa on December 4, 2000, at 6:41:16
In reply to Hypomanic, so can't stay away!!!, posted by NikkiT2 on December 1, 2000, at 6:33:50
Nikki, start setting up support for yourself. Holidays can be hard. And I know you lost your dad not long ago.
Breathe.
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