News of Mood Disorders

Sometimes you have good reason to be depressed. I don't think depression should always be treated as if it were something to get rid of, like a cold.

This suggestion is not for everyone, but has worked a little bit for me.
I adopted a cat from a shelter, and got lucky. He wants constant attention / petting, and shows great joy when I pet him and feed him. Having even just one living thing ...

Hi, I have psychotic depression and I hate being medicated.

Recently it's gotten worse, where I feel like I'm not experiencing reality as it really is due to my medication. I always feel that actually, but it's just worse now.

Whenever I'm at my most desperate I usually feel the presence of angels but lately I have not felt them at all and I think the medication is numbing me down and blinding me to ...

So before I get into all of this, I'll get some things out of the way. I started this PsychForums and sold it because there were some threats made against me by some of the members and it was getting too stressful. I've stayed away for a long time but I've decided that I deserve support too so screw those that threatened me. I no longer own this website. I sold it in 2015. I ...

Hello everyone,

I'm writing here because I've been struggling to read for a while now. Difficulty concentrating on the stories I read, on the sentences but most of all, it seems that I don't actually feel that much when I read the written words, which makes me sad. I've had depressive episodes since 16-17 years old (now 31) and nowadays I can have periods of time when I'm really anxious and/or depressed (the anxiety being ...

I am so upset by the fascist political realm, I'm afraid of the ultra-right manipulating the Presidential election. I am an activist; I have written thousands of postcards to voters, and am passing out postcards telling about the harms to all of us, if Project 2025 passes.

I am terrified, angry, and extremely depressed. Every third night, I am up all night.

Tomorrow, fortunately, I have a Zoom appointment with my psychiatrist. I will ask ...

I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder but my mood is fine. Why diagnose me with a mood disorder when I don't have a mood disorder? All I have is occasional episodes with hallucinations.

Abilify 5mg
Lamictal 25mg
Doxepin 5mg

I was given a BP 1 diagnosis with BPD and prescribed the following regimen. I already wasn't sleeping, today is 5 days straight. The NP said to take the Abilify at night since it would sedate me. Well, I believe the exact opposite occurred. Even with the Doxepin and .5mg Klonopin I went ape $#%^ and was in and out of my bed all night, no sleep. I felt ...

had a nervous breakdown in 2013. n now i'm far worse that what i was or where i was.

when i look back at how this happened, i can trace back the steps. but i still cant believe all this HAS happened. :(
just waiting for this life to end. the sooner the better.

I have had some weird things happen because I have religious delusions while manic and I think alot about the end times and stuff like that. However once when I was manic I had something really weird happen when they put me in this Catholic hospital. First off people were talking about the end times and ask me what I thought about had it started yet. I told them what I thought and then some ...

Diagnosed 15 years ago with bipolar disorder with psychotic features, our son has climbed to a dangerous place and only returns to the person I recognize when he agrees to take medication. He never stays on the meds and relapses and only gets to a safe place with meds. I realize this is not unusual. What I hope is unusual is the treatment he gets from a psychologist. This "professional" tells him he does not ...