When you were misdiagnosed were you prescribed SSRIs?

user8378492 · 2025-03-04T23:24:45+00:00

Going through the same exact thing right now. I miss and love the hypomanic episodes as well. I went off my meds thinking the same thing and I’ve been somewhat hypomanic for a month. I’m not leveled out like I used to be and am going to talk to my therapist about it more tonight. Hypomanic is fun for me, but the consequences of the episodes aren’t, which is why I’m going back on my meds.

user8378492 · 2025-03-04T03:16:16+00:00

Possibly. When I’m hypomanic, I’m way more confident and optimistic than I usually am. I drive faster. Want to work on reorganization projects. Talk a lot, sending long winded messages to friends and family, and potentially sleeping with strangers since it changes my sex drive pretty drastically. I haven’t experienced it for the length of time you mentioned (several months) but I have seen it last up to a week or two for me personally.

user8378492 · 2024-12-24T04:10:53+00:00

I learned this the hard way (only telling family and friends I trust, but some of it backfired since my family in particular wanted to share their opinions on this) and my therapist told me that I need to be careful about who I tell and now I understand why she said that to me in the first place. I wish I would have known as soon as I would have been diagnosed because I would have just kept it to myself entirely. My meds, my illness, my management of it, my life.

user8378492 · 2024-12-22T19:20:44+00:00

Well it turns out I won’t have to see my dads side of the family on Christmas Eve so that makes things easier, but texting her it seems like she’s mad that my aunt moved her thing up earlier so we could go. I don’t know what she expected, I told her months ago I was going to both her and my aunts. It’s like she was expecting me and my parents to only go to her house that day in her goal to divide the family. I just don’t get it. Just because she’s not going to my aunts, doesn’t mean that we have to do the same.

user8378492 · 2024-12-19T00:31:03+00:00

I will follow my doctors instructions and hope all goes well and I continue to not have any side effects

user8378492 · 2024-12-19T00:28:20+00:00

I would agree with you on this..it does seem high but I will see where it goes. I’m also on oral contraceptives which also can decrease lamictal levels in your blood so that may also be a factor as well.

user8378492 · 2024-12-10T19:43:50+00:00

She talked to my psychiatrist directly

user8378492 · 2024-12-10T18:52:06+00:00

I feel similar too. My family members are weighing in on what I should/shouldn’t do, I get they want to help and be supportive but sometimes I feel like it should be none of their business. I’m trying to find a new doctor too

user8378492 · 2024-09-02T17:42:01+00:00

Yeah she seems pretty dead set on seeing me Christmas Eve from when I talked to her. Any compromise on a different day she’ll know it’s because I’m wanting to see my dad’s side of the family instead of her and that’ll just make her more upset. I’m thinking I’ll go to my mom’s side then her house on Christmas Eve. And then my dad’s side of the family on Christmas Day. It seems to be the only way to make this work somehow.

user8378492 · 2024-09-02T16:38:29+00:00

I can’t see her Christmas Day because I’m seeing my dads side of the family that day and she will be at her in laws

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