News of Mood Disorders

Hey guys, I wanted to hear your thoughts on a particular issue I've had. I suddenly started to feel extremely depressed Monday afternoon... Seriously considering suicide, cutting a lot, anger, horrible self loathing, not sleeping, painfully tired, in horrible mental agony in general. Felt like a full blown depressive episode, and a bad one at that. Then, Wednesday afternoon... It vanished. I feel completely fine now. What was that?? As far as I know, the ...

I have rapid cycling bipolar with many mixed episode and psychosis. Currently, I'm taking 1000mg depakote, 100mg lamcital, 80mg geodon, 50 mg fluoxetine, and 300mg gabapentin 3x a day. there's times when I can sit still and it feels like my head is gonna explode, and I just pace around holding my head. Other times I cant even get off the couch. Lost all interest in things. Anxiety is a huge problem, and I think ...

I’m from the UK and feel that I’m just declining more and more and want to get proper help. But I don’t want to visit an NHS doctor because I’ve done that before and they just do not care for your individual situation and hand out SSRI’s like they’re kids sweets. They’re over worked and are seeing someone different every 10 minutes so can’t give individual cases the right attention.

Also the therapists I’ve seen ...

I read the self help thread and am following the instructions. But I was wondering if someone could recommend some fish oil that actually helped. Thank you.

Hi all,

I can’t believe I haven’t posted in 5 years! Still can’t throw off my depression ☹️
Just wondering if anybody has had experience of combining antidepressants and antipsychotics in the treatment of MDD?
After running through most possible options for antidepressants, I’m now on 45mg of mirtazipine, 50mg of quetipine and 200mg pregabalin (for pain as well as anxiety).
My doctor seems optimistic that the quietiapine will help the mirtazipine to work...I can’t ...

I am new to this and have questions/need help.

My wife has seemed to have issues with depression for a few years now. We have four kids and she was super sexual before having them. After our first, she was less and less interested. There were spurts of interest from her but mostly she claimed she was too tired and stressed. Two of our kids have medical issues with one being special needs. She has ...

I never know how to properly structure these questions because I feel like there's just so much background information and I don't really know what's relevant and what isn't. However, I will try my best.

Back in 2004 my brother suffered a severe panic attack and was placed on 20 mg of Paxil and it helped him immensely but over time he really didn't consistently take the medication and there were times where he would ...

I've always been a prolific writer, but in December, it was like my creativity hit a brick wall and it hasn't gotten better. I'm med compliant and I've just started therapy again. I may have to try a med change, which scares me. I don't want to wind up back on the psych ward again while I get used to new meds in a safe environment. I don't understand what happened and why it hasn't ...

I am broadly a very secluded person. I spent enormous amount of time in my room week after week. All my friends are in a different state and I can't seem to make any friends here in this state since I've been living here. It seems strange that even though my life for so many of these years has been spent in great seclusion I've never felt anything that sounds like what people "loneliness". It ...

Hey everyone. I’m brand new here. I wanna preface this and say that I don’t have bipolar disorder myself, but my best friend does. We haven’t been friends for very long and it wasn’t until recently that they admitted to me that they have it. And shortly after admitting this to me, they’ve undergone a huge shift in behavior. I met them when they were kind of shy, but overall very loving and caring. But ...