Hi over there in England! I am here in Atlanta Georgia. I wanted you to know I am 49 and I regularly feel angry and frustrated and have episodes of deep depression. I was diagnosed with bipolar ll and put on lithium because of my regular cycles of being frustrated, irritated, angry. If your symptoms are really bothering you and affecting your life ( I have had these all my life, since atleast beg'g around 15) then seek help. The lithium has taken the edge off. I am on a low dose (600mg) but it feels okay not to be as regularly irritable and angry as I have been. I know how you feel, and no, I don't blame your symptoms all on adolescence. If it makes you miserable, then it may be something other than just growing pains. Hope this helped. I think the whole mood swing thing is all confusing. I am glad there are these posts because I think we learn and get help from eachother more than other resources. Good
thoughts sent your way! Is any one in your family moody? My family has some MOODY people....so, that is always an eye opener.
After reading your blog on hypomania, I would llike to share some more confussion with you. I sound like your description of dysphoric mania, however, I feel like sometimes I am always, more days than not, in a state where something, trivial usually, can put me in a agitated mood where I just go balistic. I became hypomanic in a good way only when I was placed on an antidepressant. I am now on lithium. I never experienced "good" hypomania until I went on the antidepressant (even though I wish I did!). I do feel, somewhat,that the lithium has helped calm my irritable, agitated tendencies which were easily set off. My question then, by having a mood state that flunctuated so quickly between being okay one minute, irritable and agitated the next, sometimes this occurring every day, sometimes not every day...skipping a few, would this be bipolar, or could it just be irritable depression? I am totally confused by all this stuff. I don't want to be medicated for a condition that I may not have. Already, I feel llike my brain is slower than it used to be; is this medication effects, or mood state effects? Any comments on my "confussion" would spread some "enlightenment" around here (:
I have a similar feelings and am at 37 weeks. I've only felt this way for about a week or two though. I've found that the "skin-crawling" and being antsy only occurs at night for me. I get really sleepy and try to lay down only to find that my entire body wants to twitch. It seems like restless leg syndrome but everywhere.
I was just recently identified as hypo-manic. My doc believes it could easily balance back out once the baby comes but if not there are some medications that help with this. Since I'm so close we are attempting to manage it with natural remedies like breathing excersises, counseling, and sleeping aides. Please do you and your baby a favor and get a professional opinion. They may be able to make you more comfortable with some meds. All the best!
so thanx for this:
This is where you want to throw Richard Simmons off the Carnival Cruise ship. Okay, many normal people feel that way, too, but in this state of mind you want to do it in waters frequented by sharks who are slow picky eaters.
Namaste,
Sher
PS. Insightful and clarifying article for me... helps me feel better that I'm not the only one who has no clue what is and ISN'T healthy thought and action anymore when it comes to hypomania. My full-blown Manic episodes have scared me away from "happiness," so much so that even after years of treatment, I still keep my excitement level to a minimum at all times.
In my current treatment program I'm just beginning to accept that maybe, with careful monitoring and counter-balancing tools, habits and resources, I can allow myself to be happier than I have in the past. I can leave the door open to the possibility of NOT living the rest of my life as a quiet, complacent medication taker who has auto-piloted herself and her emotions right in between fear and confinement.
best wishes to all!
I have been a happy go lucky person my whole life. I always could handle what came my way and find the good in people and situations. When I was little I remember being so happy at time,I couldn't stand it, I would want to jump up and down. ( Now a days they probably would of said I had ADD because I could not listen to one person talking to me, I would know what everyone around me was doing too.) As I got into my teens I continued to be happy never irritable or angry but I would have days to a week where I just was done I didn't want to play the game of life anymore. I wanted it to be my time to be with God. I remember once going to bed with a bunch of pill bottles lined up on my dresser but I was afraid it wouldn't work and my secret sadness would be exposed. I didn't want to hurt anyone I just wanted to go away. So I continued to be the happy go lucky person everyone thought I was. As I got older college & mid 20's the episodes of sadness were not as common. Although when I would go out for an evening on the town I would often times be the life of the party. High school I drank my brains out I am grateful now I had a home to come too that kept me somewhat accountable. I would have regular black outs and throw up most the time. One night I did a bong and I did not like beer so they poured a litter of coke with a litter of rum into the bong. I was sleeping over at a friends house and when the parents checked on us they noticed I was not breathing right. They did not know me that well so they let me be. I threw up for two days and stayed in bed for four everyone but my friends just thought I had the flew. By college I no longer drank to that access I became the babysitter. I married and had 4 children. I loved the craziness of the house and the roller coaster of life. My husband on the other handed hated it. He was always squashing me down we would fight all the time. He is Italian and his talking was like a mad fight to me. To me it was his way or the high way- I felt like he had to always be right. So if it was going to work I had to give in and be submissive. It wasn't worth the battle. 3 years ago I got very sick with a form of strep I was in bed for 2 weeks and lost 1/4 of my body weight and it was not just dehydration. 6 months later I hit full force depression. I would hide in my closet and cry a couple times a day. I no longer wanted to live. I often thought about suicide. My husband was very supportive and loving. But it became very hard to manage the home I eventually went to the doctor and was diagnosed with major depression and was put on meds. I now go to a physiologist for meds and both my husband and I go to a councilor once a week. I seem to be on a 6 month cycle where every 6 months I go from depression to Hypo. My husband thinks I am hypo. I am not sure if it is hypo or the old me. Every time I get happy/hypo they ajust my meds and I crash into depression. Could this happy state just be me? What is the problem with me being hypo and just working on living in this state with relaxation tecniques and concintrating on slowing down? I really do not want to crash again. Is it possible to work through this stage. I am currently taking 100mg of cybalta & 20mg of celexa. I would love to hear from anyone o has an oppinion on my situation. Sincerely, Mary Ellen
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