News of Mood Disorders

I have recently been dignosed with Bipolar 2 and I'm working with my doctors to find a good medication mix. I was mis-diagnosed with depression and have taken Prozac, Zoloft and Lexapro on and off for the past six years. All work for a little while or take some edge off for a period of time, but eventually quit working. I'm scared to get on harder mood controlling drugs because I don't want to lose ...

Does anyone have an opinion on the effectiveness of psychotherapy for the treatment of depression? I have been getting treatment from a pyschiatrist for depression for the last 2 years, using a cognitive behavioural approach and it's helped a little, but a friend recommended that psychoanalysis may be more helpful. Does anyone know anything about this, or would recommend it, or not?
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I was wondering if anyone has identified triggers that mark the transition from being normal to manic or hypo manic or normal to depressed.

I generally wake up and go to bed depressed but sometimes I get thinking about cars before I go to bed and then cannot sleep for the rest of the night because my mind is bombarded with thoughts about cars and ways to modify or improve the performance, styling, and functions ...

I have four first cousins and two of them are bipolar. My sister has just been diagnosed. I've wondered about myself and my difficulties for a long time. I don't know, just seeing who I can talk to. Have been treated for depression before, just recently stopped taking my medicine because I ran out.

Anyway, just trying this out.

Kathy

ok i am going to try to say this as quickly as i can

as you can see i have been bothered a lot lately with the question of if i really do have a chemical imbalance in my brain which causes depression or am i just a weak person who is stupid and cant deal with stress

i research mental health online everyday for some reason so i know all of the disorders and ...

i hate this feeling man it is getting worse by the second i feel guilty now that i am on this medication and i am getting on this help i do not even know if i have a ######6 mental illness i do not even know even know if i had ocd at all i dont know ###$ man it is hard does anyone have any advice for me

come on man this is bothering me how do you know if i am depressed or just really sad maybe i am just a weak person and cant deal with stress that normal peole do or maybe i really do have a mental illness this is fricken bothering me i used to have OCD and now i am getting it about this i really want to know

yeah can anyone tell me whats going on here is what is happening

i went to a hospital because i told my mom that i wanted to kill myself and it thought that i was a danger to myself

the psychiatrist gave me zoloft and i started taking 25 mg. after a week it was moved up to 50 mg.

a week ago i had three panic attacks, one of which i went to the ...

i feel like i am so useless. i want to just give up... i dont care about anything anymore but thats ok cause "anything" hasnt cared about me for a long time. there is nothing left to do but end it, end everything. i feel so alone, so pahtetic. i dont want to die like this but it feels like the only way out. please dont delete this tread cause i talk about suicide.
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Hello everyone. That one guy who wrote. i know how he feels but to comment on what someone else said about keep trying drugs there is one that will work. Well what do you do when you get such bad withdrawls when you taper down on the medication and then stop.. I have tried about 8 times to get off of the Effexor. I was taking 225mg/day but then I found out I was pregnant. ...