Posted by SLS on May 6, 2003, at 9:35:22
In reply to Re: Does anyone feel worse on Provigil ? » SLS, posted by Geezer on May 5, 2003, at 21:45:27
> May I ask if you have Bipolar Disorder. My major complaint is atypical depression but the "wiz kids" in psycho-pharm. (pdocs) have hinted at Bipolar, due to the lack of emperical scientific testing I will never know.....just have to treat the symptoms.
I was originally diagnosed as having atypical unipolar depression. When I developed severe mania in association with a combination of Parnate + desipramine and also upon discontinuation of Nardil, doctors at the NIMH decided that I was bipolar. Still, there are some doctors who would classify me as atypical unipolar with drug-induced mania. I never had a spontaneous manic episode. I think my condition does involve bipolarity because I was an ultra-rapid cycler for over two years. My cycling was pretty dramatic. I would be severely depressed for 8 days. Then, on day 8, my mood would lift and become normal over the space of an hour. This normal period only lasted 3 days - not 2 and not 4. On day 3, the switch to severe depression occurred, again, over the course of an hour. After recognizing my condition for what was, I was able to keep a social calendar around it.Recently, a doctor described what I have as "deficit syndrome". In the past, this term has been reserved for describing symptomology involved with schizophrenia. However, some doctors are beginning to look at this cluster of negative symptoms in the absence of schizophrenia, melancholia or dysphoria to be a separate diagnostic description.
- Scott
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