News of Mood Disorders

I'm on a low dose Zoloft + Lamictal for Bipolar 2/bipolar depression. I have a friend traveling a long distance to celebrate our big birthdays. She wants to spend one day visiting wineries. She's not a partier but enjoys wine very much. My pdoc firmly told me no more than 1 glass for the special occasion.

I've only drank once in the last few years. I had one glass of champagne (I'm guessing 4oz) and ...

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I am 30 years old and was diagnosed with bipolar 1. I have a long history of mental illness and often have thought about suicide. I have even attempted it once before. Added to this are religious thoughts and spiritual crises that have plagued me. I frequently have guilt to the degree that nothing I do anymore will save me from an eternal pubishment. Its a lethal mental cocktail but I have talked it ...

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I am coming out of a 3 month mild depressive phase, I have been hypomanic 6 days straight with little rest or sleep while exercising, cleaning, or just being hyperactive all day. BUT, I’m feeling very emotionally and physically dissociative the whole time. Like my mind is blank, I “feel” emotionally flat except for occasional 1-3 second bursts that manage to break through rarely, my body is far away and physical sensation is vague ...

i am trying to figure out what exact term or explanation one would give for how i would feel about something. i've always let the therapists / mental health professionals know that one of the strongest emotions i have is envy, however, as i go on and off researching the definition, something about the typical definition is not what i agree with or relate to.

for example, from most of the sources i've seen, it ...

Sometimes a sense of odd lucidity washes over me, like I'm in a dreamlike state, kind of like dejavu, but not really. A scenery that's abandoned and washed in a dying orange light. Shadowy figures flee from the edge of my vision everywhere I look, and in front of me, always a rainbowy, translucent ring of light that changes shapes. Does anyone else travel to a special place in their head that changes their surroundings? ...

For several years, I thought I was going to end up unhappy and depressed for the rest of my life. After learning to spend time alone, I learned that I was not the one making me feel unhappy. It was the people around me making me feel miserable.

I learned that only by saying good-bye to all my toxic friends would I achieve happiness. You know what? It worked. ...

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I decided to create an account today as I thought it might be a good idea to chat to other people who experience reality in a similar way to me.

How old were you when you first started being/feeling odd? How many of you have a regular diagnosis and are on medication, and of those--how many agree that being on medication is definitely better?

I'm currently almost 27 years ...

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I am a 38 year old male. My life hasn't gone the way I would have expected it to go by my age. For a number of years I have been trying to heal and understand what's been 'my problem'. I have had therapy for years and tried many different things like years of meditation (which has helped) among other things. But there is still something I can't seem to shake.

I have recently ...

My temper lately has been off the charts. I am in a horrible mood. I could just strike a match to the whole thing and never look back. I could just kill people with my eyes. I don't know what is wrong with me. Could I be on the edge of some sort of episode? The has been going on for over a week now. Any insight?

Sever family members are bipolar; my sister is type 1, I am type 2. My son has been diagnosed and has been in and out of treatment for years. He is 34. Right now he is on lithium and the dose has been raised over many months. It is not 1800 mg. He is also on Haldol 1 to 2 mg. He has klonapin prn. Each medication seemed to work at first. But they all ...