News of Mood Disorders

Hello,
My husband is bipolar and I wish I would have known some of these things when we first met. I fell in love before I really knew what I was getting into and believe me it has been a trying 2 years since we first met.
The hardest part is that I feel deep down inside that we didn't work out because of his disorder. He is a wonderful man, but because of bipolar ...

I have summer vacation and nothing to do. I don't have friends to travel with or go to rock festivals with (which i'd really like to do.) I'm just stuck at home and time is passing slowly everyday. I'm trying to find a new place to live, but I keep looking trough the ads and nothing seems to be the right apartment for me. I'm too dependent on my family. I'm currently living with an ...

I have recently been put on zoloft after I described to my doctor how I feel and so on. Basically anxiety and mood problems. He didnt think I was BI-POLAR and gave me the zoloft and a appointment to come back in 3 weeks. He seemed like he cared and all , but didnt seem like he wanted to know everything that was going on , just a real quick appointment in general. Anyways, after ...

I have been medicated for severed depression for the past ten years, but only the past three years has the diagnosis changed (in my view probably correctly) to bipolar type II disorder. I have had some excellent doctors and counselors over the years. However I have had a new doctor for the past two months and I feel he has been irresponsible. I felt interrogated after the first meeting, he dozed off several times during ...

do any of you people know how to cover up scars. as i got lots of scars on my wrists from my self harm.

Hello, I've just been dg's as being bipolar, and I am just starting treatment. This whole process is rather scary and intimdating.

I was previously dg'd as being clinicly depressed, and went through the majority of antidepressants, finally settling on Zoloft. It works great for me. Oddly it is very fast acting on me. I can get by with rather low doses (25mg) and feel the effects within 20-30 minutes of ingestion. I know that ...

Can having Bipolar increase you're intellegence/understanding/creativity?

People keep saying "not to worry about labels, subtypes". And I can understand where there coming from.......However diagnosis and specific subtypes are still important no matter how fed up we get with it....I've been fed up since I been first diagnosed schizophrenia, psychosis nos, schiz-affective. Sure it's just like a concoction of sterotyped commonalities which deviate from what most people feel is normal but It shows you weather or not you even want to bother ...

hello,

first, let me say that i am not really looking for advice with a problem, so much as wondering if anyone else out there has had a similar experience or reached a similar point in their lives.

i am 24 yrs old now, and have been dealing with depression for about 12 years. in high school and college i started to develop more serious depressive episodes. for a while i went to see a ...

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