News of Mood Disorders

Hey everyone! I just joined this site because -I admit it- I am GREATLY in need of friends yet have to pull away from my social life out in the world. It has become far too painful for me. I hope I can find gentler kindred spirits on a site like this.
I'm not one to wear my diagnosis on my sleeve or talk about it incessantly, but I have bipolar disorder. I guess I'm ...

One quote a day keeps the pdoc away ? :D :wink:

I start:

​-The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there
Robert M Pirsig

-The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
Robert ...

I have bipolar disorder I but I also have had for ages several other, more "physical" issues, such as very frequent pain in various parts of my body (not always the same) for no particular reason, and extreme tiredness even when I sleep well over the typical 8 hours (I'm retired already because of the bipolar) - these among other things. I have experienced these often also in the past but not always, so I ...

I am unable to control my crying. I don't think there are medications for this. The depression is just so severe, I am not thinking anything specific when I cry, I just cry, long and hard and often. This is frightening, does anyone have any ideas. Crying wasn't a part of my past depressive episodes, this is new and scary. Thank you.

Hello everybody,

First let me know Im thankful for this and the Psych forums in general; seems to be a lot of info here.

About me:
Im in my end 20s, live in Europe (GE); my mother is bipolar II and my father probably bipolar too, I know he had phases of psychosis and depression which he drowned in alcohol.
My mother has been diagnosed only recently, after 15 years of struggle.

3 years ago ...

Hi!

After many years on different SSRI meditations I haven’t found any medication that has worked real good for my depressions, except lamotrigine, but I had to stop it after a skin reaction. I´ve tried at least 20 different medications over the last 12 years.

My latest doctor have followe me the past 3 years and have now two paths he would believe explain my conditions and why earlier medications hasn´t worked properly. He think ...

I think I'm entering a mixed state...a. slight one. I feel like I can't sleep enough... 12 hours a day/night and yet I still feel fatigued and sleep deprived. But I also feel agitated and revved up and slightly irritable at moments. I can't concentrate and stop myself mid-thought/mid-movement to do something else. I spent this morning rocking out to music and pacing and now I want to move somehow... be physical, go somewhere, journey, ...

I was going through a rough time in college and became infatuated with my middle aged professor. I never told him how I felt but we became fairly close and I was really good student.

One day, I noticed him using, in class, the same phrases I had said to him in office hours, but in a different context. It felt like he was trying to hit on me. This, plus a couple of other ...

I feel hopeless, when I google for help none of it resonates or seems pertinent

when I say hopeless its not because I dont think X or Y will happen, its because there is no X or Y.

I'm 35, and I suppose objectively from there outs I have a decent/good life, but Im just sick of it all, life has nothing to offer that I want.

very few things bring me any joy anymore, ...

Hello I am 19yo male, before the events last winter I was a content,happy, easy going guy, I was rarely worried, but sometimes I enjoyed a bit of melancholy

So last year around November I started to get tired, not much at first, people started to annoy me, I felt like I had less emotions and world seemed to get boring, waking was starting to feel like a chore and sleeping wasn't as recharging as ...