Posted by headachequeen on January 30, 2004, at 23:00:32
In reply to Re: topomax » headachequeen, posted by Karen_kay on January 30, 2004, at 19:26:29
> Bipolar I dx is made when a person has had at least one manic or mixed episode, lasting for one week, unless hospitalization occurs (I think??) and at least one major depressive episode (though you don't have to have a depressive episode to be dx).
> For me personally (Shhh, you won't tell, right???) I had a habit of getting nakie in public and walking around town at four o'clock in the afternoon, I've flashed police cars, random strangers, slept with strangers off the street. Of course my sister suggested I do it (walk around town naked, that is), and she knew I wasn't "feeling well" but she didn't know I had Bipolar Disorder. She just thought I was a riot (it's not quite so funny now). I also spent money I didn't have (to the sum of thousands of dollars while I was a starving college student), shop lifted, and gone on very little sleep for numerous days.
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> Bipolar II Disorder dx is made when a person alternates between major depressive episodes and hypomanias. So, hypomania is a form of mania, only less severe and may not last as long as mania. Hypomania usually doesn't require hospitalization, and some people find it to be enjoyable. Usually I'm very talkative, need only a few hours of sleep, am very productive, have increased energy.
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> Hope that helps explain things with my embarrassing stories :)Thanks for the explanation...
I have been treated for depression for a longer time than I can remember eventually ending up in hospital a year and a-half past... my doctor thought I was bipolar actually; the psychiatrist who admitted me said I was not bipolar and diagnosed me as something else entirely, the which I have forgotten; actually she said she suffered from the same disorder and was really helpful.
The psych in charge of the department decided my mixture of symptoms was so interesting he would take my case; told me that himself eventually and made me feel like a some sort of insect on a pin being examined under a microscope or something... really wonderful feeling believe me! then went on to tell me I was not depressed at all but had a personality disorder and was hypomanic and did not need psychiatric care...
totally confused me by the time he was finished and I am still confused... but struggling to get through it all without him...
find more help here than he could ever provide...
I am thinking though of finding a way to arrange treatment with the first one... except she treats in-patients only and that is not an option I care to consider if possible...
contrary aren't I?
kat
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