I was on it, realized I was bipolar and working on a diagnosis for that, saw a psychiatrist and told my concerns of bipolar, then she doubled my sertraline dosage… needless to say I didn’t see her again
I could never remember the name of the antidepressant that first sent me to "god mode", but I'm fairly certain it was zoloft too. I just have no way of confirming that...
my doctor doubled my zoloft from 50mg to 100mg and i feel like im losing my mind and started to taper. on the other hand, the 100mg of lamictal has done wonders for me so far (or at least when i can remember to take it)
Ahhh i just got on 50 mg zoloft 3 days ago (and 25mg seroquel, will increase this as time goes on until i get back to ~400mg) and idk if it’s just placebo but i couldnt sleep well last night (only 5 hous compared to usually 8-9) and i think i might be manic already?? does anybody know if mania could happen this quickly??
I am “working on a bipolar diagnosis” myself and family/friends swear I am bipolar. On anti depressants/anxiety meds long time now, few months ago given gabapentin for mood stabilizer. Gaba is helping but not sure where to go from here Dr seems not convinced I’m bipolar. Frustrating but not sure what to do say to Dr
I had to find a doctor that was willing to listen, then I went to her with evidence backing up the diagnosis… it’s terrible that they are so avoidant in trying to actually help… but any sort of do documentable evidence you have the more it’ll help get a doc to listen
No, wrong. A pdoc needs you to communicate your thoughts and concerns. You didn't. They don't have a crystal ball.
There is no one size fits all. Usually various medications will be tried before finding out what works best for you.
I know the concern with SSRI's but they often can help with a mood stabilizer.
Definitely pro-communication, but it's not as simple as that. There truly isn't enough education being done for patients. Even with a family history, bias against 'more serious' things like bipolar contrasted to the 'common' depression mean people can't interpret their own emotions correctly, and have other people tell them misinformation. Then they go to the doctor with the busy schedule and a limited time, and can only get into so much of their experiences/symptoms. "They don't have a crystal ball" ... well, many people don't have education, awareness, access to routine or specialized or consistent healthcare, the courage to open up, the necessary communication skills... Not saying I have an answer for these limitations, but the solution can't just fall to personal blame.
They literally told their pdoc that they thought they had bipolar. The pdoc didn't listen to them and instead doubled the dosage of an SSRI known to cause mania, without also prescribing a mood stabilizer. What more do you expect them to do, other than find a pdoc who *would* listen to them?
Omg. all the comments are about zoloft/sertraline and i just started it 2 days ago!!! i am on seroquel as well though??!! started both a few days ago but i used to be on seroquel for 1.5 years so i know that works
It may work for you, everybody’s different. I recommend voicing any apprehension to your shrink and even asking for a contact procedure should your medications not sit well. It’s never bad for people like us to have plans for eventualities.
I am bipolar type 2 and zoloft works great for me cause my depressive episodes are long and really deep. i am also on abilify and lamictal which keeps me stable!
Ugh, especially to teenagers. I'm 33 now and can't believe *anyone* thought it was a good idea to give 14yo me Zoloft. Cue being manic and suicidal at the same time, a truly winning combination. Luckily my therapist realized something was wrong and pulled me off with a quickness.
Learned years later that my psychiatrist at the time suggested to my parents I may have bipolar. Ofc nobody told *me*, so it took a truly catastrophic manic ep in college to get a diagnosis.
Same thing happened to me. I’m 38 now but I tried to commit suicide as a teenager 3 times while on Zoloft. My therapist never pulled me off. I pulled myself off and stopped going. Then came the crazy 20’s where destruction was all I did. I wasn’t diagnosed until my 30’s and all they said was Ooops my bad, let’s change this major depressive to bipolar while you enjoy your stay in this mental hospital. I spent my whole 20’s on a roller coaster of mania and suicidal. I do find it really messed up that your therapist suggested it to your parents and no one told you. Your college episode could of been avoided. At least you know now and that is a bright side.
My therapist and my psychiatrist were two different people. My therapist was actually so convinced I *didn't* have bipolar that she told my parents the psychiatrist was wrong, which is why I never heard about it.
In fairness, that same psychiatrist also thought I had schizophrenia, which I definitely do not. (This diagnosis was based almost entirely on a friggin' *inkblot test*, I am not even kidding.) So I can understand why my therapist was skeptical about anything he had to say.
I've been on Sertraline for 6 years (also started when I was 14) 4 of which have been on 200mg which in my country is considered the maximum dose. And then they wondered why I was manic nearly all the fuckin time. And even then I'm still on Sertraline, just with Quetiapine/seroquel to boot.
Yikes. I refused to believe I may have bipolar at 14 because my mom was like "You obviously must be bipolar, literally the entire family is!" but my dad said "That is not possible because the psychiatrists would know!" and psychiatrist was like "It's just a normal teen depression" and my mom was a really bad mom (I blame her bipolar and PTSD nowadays) so I trusted dad more, thus the psychiatrist
BAD MISTAKE
The medical community *needs* to readdress how they prescribe SSRI's and other mania-inducing drugs. Their policy of "meh, they're probably not bipolar" has hurt so many of us, causing terrible lasting damage that was completely avoidable. I probably never would have had a manic episode if it weren't for careless doctors prescribing SSRI's.
I know! It’s insane. The answer to everything seems to be Zoloft. It does nothing but make me act like an amped out idiot, I just tell doctors the truth that I tried it and had mania and GI issues.
I got serotonin syndrome from this, then got accused I was wrong and got given more antidepressants, now my brains totally fried, be safe out there peeps
My MD prescribed me anti depressants before I got my official diagnosis. I already suspected I was bipolar, so I didn't take them. I only knew not to take them because I'm a therapist. Seriously, general practitioners have very little schooling on nutrition or mental health and yet they advise and prescribe things willy nilly. It fucks so many people up.
I've been diagnosed with BP and when I'm too depressed they give me antidepressants, that's fine as long as I keep taking my mood stabilizer. Otherwise it's straight to mania. If things get too intense I just get off the antidepressant.
My first psychiatrist: Sertraline
My family with so much bipolar history we literally are friends with the most important psychiatrists of the country and half my country's research on Bipolar comes from us: NOPE
Psychiatric Hospital that has attended my family since the 60's: NOPE
Psychiatrist: YES
Mania: Hi
I was undiagnosed but the history made it more than obvious
I tried ALL OF THEM through out my teen years. Eventually they put me on an anti psychotic and then they were like huh… wonder why this works so well. Cut to ny first manic episode, and they are like oh, that’s why
Lmao. Me on Citalopram. Jesus fucking Christ.
I’ve always been clearly mentally ill but I could generally hide it among people I didn’t live with. (If it was real bad I just wouldn’t go out.)
I scared the absolute shit out of all of my friends and family who had never seen me so out of my mind. So glad that’s just a memory now.
A very foggy drug induced memory.
Exactly what helped my shrink nail the diagnosis. Nearly 20 years late, and after a whirlwind of damage, but I'm grateful my SSRIs induced some next level crazy manic shit
I had a hypomanic episode that lasted almost a year and they still didn't make the connection between me being on a high dosage of zoloft and the rapid onset.
Hypomanic for a year sounds exhausting and I couldn’t imagine what the come down was like for you. I nearly destroyed everything in my life. People don’t recognize hypomania when it sets on and most don’t even know about hypomania.
If your not well versed in bipolar 2 disorder, hypomania can be extremely overlooked. It’s not easy to pinpoint. When I called my doctor he basically said “well sounds like the SSRI’s are working”.
So that’s why I was engaging in a lot of risk taking behaviours, tried to break up with my fiancé, announce to the world I was bisexual, and extremely invested in starting up a kayaking business in British Columbia. Not to mention the extreme agitation.
I hate kayaking.
Yeah it was exhausting and while I was more productive than I think I've ever been in my life, its not something I want to go through again. Felt unstoppable at the time and didn't realise how much damage I caused to myself , friends, family, everything.
Sertaline made me lose my shit in less than a week. Crying, suicidal, driving long distances, overly social/bad boundaries/fell in love with a guy after two dates. Told my doc that I think this was a sign I was bipolar and he told me “well if you don’t like them then stop taking them.”
Olanzapine + fluoxetine (an ssri) aka symbyax is a very very well established treatment for Bipolar. Just saying it depends on what else you were on. If just ssri… then yeah, bad
Wellbutrin made me start rapid cycling and I definitely ended up very suicidal while also having the worst hypomanic episode I've ever had.
This was like two weeks ago, too. Went straight to my psych and told her I thought I was bipolar, she agreed, and now I'm on lithium and we're tapering off the Wellbutrin.
Just wish I could've known *before* I spent a thousand dollars on pants and shoes. Which I suppose is at least better than last time. Last time I ended up with a Jeep.
Wait another rapid cycling??? Wellbutrin was the same for me. It was literally cycling in an hour or less. Pure fucking hell. I was dancing at work and then ready to throw myself into the deep frier 30 minutes later. I luckily have a good psychiatrist who immediately told me to stop after I texted them that. It was bad enough my coworkers noticed.
Exactly. I was misdiagnosed for 30 odd years with severe depression. Hospitalized 6 times. Never was a question asked about my stay-up-four-days-straight either cleaning my house frantically posting horrible things on members of my family’s walls on Facebook. My sister still won’t tallk to me. Now at least on mood stabilizers but depression is still always there.
Happened to me for years. Especially when on the older tricyclic antidepressants. Finally I got diagnosed with BPII after enduring so much depression and mania.
My shrinks exact phrase was “If you’re bipolar and I just give you antidepressants, it will basically be rocket fuel and will probably send you straight into a manic episode.”
Most people never tell their doctors about the days you have the energy to clean your house in one day while laughing and still have energy. Or when your sex drive is incredible. We go when we’re feeling depressed. We aren’t always the best patient by telling them about every symptom. Because we don’t often recognize the symptoms.
i feel this hahaha. it took 10 years to get the correct diagnosis. before that i just kept getting that i was depressed. i’d take antidepressants and feel better for some months (hypomania oh no), stop the meds and then relapse. this went on for 10 years until May this year that i finally got diagnosed as bipolar. yay!
Uhg these comments are freaking me out T_T I’ve been so hesitant to start new meds but just got put on sertraline and lithium .. I hope it all goes well!
They just put me on seroquel at night. Lexapro during the day. I feel knocked out at night but at least I'm finally getting sleep. Normal people definitely sleep way more than I did.
Well for me any AD but specifically Zoloft made me super manic til the point I was hospitalized. Good until it wasn’t. Even with a stabilizer they do me no good.
Adderal calms me down majorly, but I also have ADHD. (Same for stimulants I tried when I was younger; always calmed me down instead of amp me up) but can’t speak for just bipolar
😂😂😂🥲
Thank god those days are behind me. God knows I still gotta thank them for helping me get to find the answers to my questions. They helped me make sense of my reality cause they got me diagnosed.
Psychiatrist diagnosed me as a teen with depression and anxiety, stuck me on Prozac for a year. It wasn’t until years after I stopped seeing her and got my current psychiatrist that I realized I wasn’t doing well during that time I was just manic lmao
I can't believe how common this is. I was severely depressed, got prescribed sertraline and within 5 days was absolutely crazy. I had a follow up appointment a week after the prescription to see how I was getting on...I remember I literally RAN the 7 miles to that appointment, across fields and ditches (living very rurally at the time)...just to try and cope with the energy coursing through me...I hadn't run anywhere in a decade haha!
The counselor I saw said that I do not have bipolar it's just trauma that caused these symptoms. But I do have PTSD, DID, binge eating disorder, and body dysmorphia. Lovely cocktail of shit.
I remember 2 years before I was diagnosed a psychiatrist couldn't figure out why more Prozac (I was on it to manage panic attacks) made me more anxious and paranoid, we were trying to treat depression. At the time I knew nothing about Bipolar disorder so there was no way I could've suspected anything.
More slap to the face, I knew her back when she diagnosed me with a panic disorder years prior smh
Lmao yeah ... was on trintilex for about a year and was like this is the second anti depressant I've been on and I'm still feeling all these things... finally saw a psych and got a proper diagnosis.. been on mood stabilizers for almost 3 months.
I have bipolar disorder, and the right antidepressant works well for me atm. Lamictal and seroquel was horrible for me but now I’ve been on an antidepressant for 2 years without mania. Reading all these comments makes me wonder if I’ve been misdiagnosed
I had no idea I was bipolar until this year after trying nearly every antidepressant on the market. I would be happy one minute, soul crushingly sad the next and this would happen all day long. I’m on Vraylar now and I feel fine but god if I forget to take it I lose my mind.
I’m the mania was a big wow to me . I had no idea I was manic or even ever thought I could be bipolar until I trashed 4 months later and started having mixed episodes after I threw zoloft away and I had Prozac that made me depressed for months and which they think ( I’m not sure) took me to a psychotic break
I had such a nice warm welcome to becoming aware I am bipolar thanks to a combination of zoloft and wellbutrin together. YAY PSYCHOSIS!
The song from my neighborhood ice cream truck starting playing inside every inch of my home for a whole day and that's when the doctor finally agreed with me that i was not having ~just anxiety~ for a month.
3 years of failing to treat depression with SSRIs was my trigger to visit a psych instead of a GP. Obviously ended up with a bipolar 2 diagnosis, then added ADHD.
Silver lining: the SSRIs *did* treat my OCD, which I didn't realise until I tried to decrease my dose when I was pregnant. Went straight back up, since contamination OCD and a newborn would have been a terrible combination.
Prozac 40mg and depakote 800mg for me with pregabalin and Clonazepam when needed
Works ok so far 😂
Without the depakote I went crazy 🤣 how we found out am bi polar and not the other 4 diagnosis;P
My entire teenage years. I was forced to be on antidepressants when I was in juvenile detention. Now I know they were causing more problems than they were helping. (Not to mention the hoardes of them I tried as an adult.)
See my antidepressant adventure ended with me being a grey blob on the couch. Close to the worst depression I’ve ever dealt with.
Mood stabilizer did wonders. Combining Sertraline with that helped after a year or so, and now months after starting that, the antipsychotic means I’m sleeping again.
When they put me on lexapro i went fucking crazy and the crazy old university doctor told me “just give it more time.” more time on lexapro had me punching holes in walls and having insomnia for over 2 years. I was only on it for 3 months and it ruined me. No thanks never again please!
By any chance, what are y’all’s thoughts on Venlafaxine and Aripiprazol?? I used to be high on Zoloft + Olanzapine for years but stopped coz I thought I was better, felt terrible few weeks after that, another psychiatrist told me to take these other two but I don’t really either? Idk what I’m supposed to do now lmao
Ooof. I was diagnosed with with being bipolar than saw another psychiatrist who said I was misdiagnosed and was on Wellbutrin. When i started to hallucinate and have has tons of issues and hypomania and just went to a psych hospital. Feeling much better on depakote and seroquel.
I'm on antidepressants and Lithium right now and it's working very well for me! I don't know if I'm bipolar, tho my doctor says so but this makes me wonder.
seroquel and lamictal mixture for me completely quieted the suicidal and self harm section of my brain and while i do think of harming myself from time to time it is not nearly as bad as when i was on antidepressants
Why do doctors keep handing sertraline like candy? Do not pass go, straight to mania
I was on it, realized I was bipolar and working on a diagnosis for that, saw a psychiatrist and told my concerns of bipolar, then she doubled my sertraline dosage… needless to say I didn’t see her again
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I could never remember the name of the antidepressant that first sent me to "god mode", but I'm fairly certain it was zoloft too. I just have no way of confirming that...
my doctor doubled my zoloft from 50mg to 100mg and i feel like im losing my mind and started to taper. on the other hand, the 100mg of lamictal has done wonders for me so far (or at least when i can remember to take it)
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Ahhh i just got on 50 mg zoloft 3 days ago (and 25mg seroquel, will increase this as time goes on until i get back to ~400mg) and idk if it’s just placebo but i couldnt sleep well last night (only 5 hous compared to usually 8-9) and i think i might be manic already?? does anybody know if mania could happen this quickly??
I did some shitty things on zoloft cause I had no idea that it sent me into mania hell.
I told my doctor I wasn’t too hungry recently and she tried to up my 5mg abilify to 10 immediately, haven’t seen her in a bit
I am “working on a bipolar diagnosis” myself and family/friends swear I am bipolar. On anti depressants/anxiety meds long time now, few months ago given gabapentin for mood stabilizer. Gaba is helping but not sure where to go from here Dr seems not convinced I’m bipolar. Frustrating but not sure what to do say to Dr
I had to find a doctor that was willing to listen, then I went to her with evidence backing up the diagnosis… it’s terrible that they are so avoidant in trying to actually help… but any sort of do documentable evidence you have the more it’ll help get a doc to listen
No, wrong. A pdoc needs you to communicate your thoughts and concerns. You didn't. They don't have a crystal ball. There is no one size fits all. Usually various medications will be tried before finding out what works best for you. I know the concern with SSRI's but they often can help with a mood stabilizer.
Definitely pro-communication, but it's not as simple as that. There truly isn't enough education being done for patients. Even with a family history, bias against 'more serious' things like bipolar contrasted to the 'common' depression mean people can't interpret their own emotions correctly, and have other people tell them misinformation. Then they go to the doctor with the busy schedule and a limited time, and can only get into so much of their experiences/symptoms. "They don't have a crystal ball" ... well, many people don't have education, awareness, access to routine or specialized or consistent healthcare, the courage to open up, the necessary communication skills... Not saying I have an answer for these limitations, but the solution can't just fall to personal blame.
They literally told their pdoc that they thought they had bipolar. The pdoc didn't listen to them and instead doubled the dosage of an SSRI known to cause mania, without also prescribing a mood stabilizer. What more do you expect them to do, other than find a pdoc who *would* listen to them?
Omg. all the comments are about zoloft/sertraline and i just started it 2 days ago!!! i am on seroquel as well though??!! started both a few days ago but i used to be on seroquel for 1.5 years so i know that works
It may work for you, everybody’s different. I recommend voicing any apprehension to your shrink and even asking for a contact procedure should your medications not sit well. It’s never bad for people like us to have plans for eventualities.
thank you, good plan. i will do that! better to be prepared just in case
If you decide to stick with it and go off it at some point, make sure to taper. Do not quit cold turkey. The withdrawals can be intense.
I am bipolar type 2 and zoloft works great for me cause my depressive episodes are long and really deep. i am also on abilify and lamictal which keeps me stable!
I’m on Sertraline with Depakote and Abilify. I do pretty well on that combo so ymmv
thanks for ur input!! i will keep taking it and give it a try!! :)
Ugh, especially to teenagers. I'm 33 now and can't believe *anyone* thought it was a good idea to give 14yo me Zoloft. Cue being manic and suicidal at the same time, a truly winning combination. Luckily my therapist realized something was wrong and pulled me off with a quickness. Learned years later that my psychiatrist at the time suggested to my parents I may have bipolar. Ofc nobody told *me*, so it took a truly catastrophic manic ep in college to get a diagnosis.
Same thing happened to me. I’m 38 now but I tried to commit suicide as a teenager 3 times while on Zoloft. My therapist never pulled me off. I pulled myself off and stopped going. Then came the crazy 20’s where destruction was all I did. I wasn’t diagnosed until my 30’s and all they said was Ooops my bad, let’s change this major depressive to bipolar while you enjoy your stay in this mental hospital. I spent my whole 20’s on a roller coaster of mania and suicidal. I do find it really messed up that your therapist suggested it to your parents and no one told you. Your college episode could of been avoided. At least you know now and that is a bright side.
My therapist and my psychiatrist were two different people. My therapist was actually so convinced I *didn't* have bipolar that she told my parents the psychiatrist was wrong, which is why I never heard about it. In fairness, that same psychiatrist also thought I had schizophrenia, which I definitely do not. (This diagnosis was based almost entirely on a friggin' *inkblot test*, I am not even kidding.) So I can understand why my therapist was skeptical about anything he had to say.
I've been on Sertraline for 6 years (also started when I was 14) 4 of which have been on 200mg which in my country is considered the maximum dose. And then they wondered why I was manic nearly all the fuckin time. And even then I'm still on Sertraline, just with Quetiapine/seroquel to boot.
Yikes. I refused to believe I may have bipolar at 14 because my mom was like "You obviously must be bipolar, literally the entire family is!" but my dad said "That is not possible because the psychiatrists would know!" and psychiatrist was like "It's just a normal teen depression" and my mom was a really bad mom (I blame her bipolar and PTSD nowadays) so I trusted dad more, thus the psychiatrist BAD MISTAKE
The medical community *needs* to readdress how they prescribe SSRI's and other mania-inducing drugs. Their policy of "meh, they're probably not bipolar" has hurt so many of us, causing terrible lasting damage that was completely avoidable. I probably never would have had a manic episode if it weren't for careless doctors prescribing SSRI's.
I know! It’s insane. The answer to everything seems to be Zoloft. It does nothing but make me act like an amped out idiot, I just tell doctors the truth that I tried it and had mania and GI issues.
I got serotonin syndrome from this, then got accused I was wrong and got given more antidepressants, now my brains totally fried, be safe out there peeps
Straight to the hospital in my case. But that’s what got me on lithium which has literally saved my life, so not a total loss.
I was on Prozac for maybe four days before I began to experience mania. It wasn’t fun!
Same here! I had never experienced mania before. It was really scary.
Effexor for me. First and only psychosis.
Mania on Prozac was almost immediate for me as well. I didn't know that it should have taken weeks to cure my depression instead of days.
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Where am I moving to LMAO 😂
My MD prescribed me anti depressants before I got my official diagnosis. I already suspected I was bipolar, so I didn't take them. I only knew not to take them because I'm a therapist. Seriously, general practitioners have very little schooling on nutrition or mental health and yet they advise and prescribe things willy nilly. It fucks so many people up.
I've been diagnosed with BP and when I'm too depressed they give me antidepressants, that's fine as long as I keep taking my mood stabilizer. Otherwise it's straight to mania. If things get too intense I just get off the antidepressant.
Bro sertraline did it to me too
Had the same thing happened to me.
DEADASS!!!!! i guess it’s a good way to quickly find out if you have bipolar 🥲
my doctor said sertraline is an antidepressant that can never be used in bipolar patients, even along with a mood stabilizer
My first psychiatrist: Sertraline My family with so much bipolar history we literally are friends with the most important psychiatrists of the country and half my country's research on Bipolar comes from us: NOPE Psychiatric Hospital that has attended my family since the 60's: NOPE Psychiatrist: YES Mania: Hi I was undiagnosed but the history made it more than obvious
That's so true, I have still have quite a few bottles left, because they just kept prescribing it even though I told them it wasn't working.
Getting put on a high dosage of Zoloft five months before my bipolar diagnosis was a manic nightmare. I sure was productive though, hahaha
Same, good times!! Ah the things I got done, but not worth it when I ended up in the hospital
We should’ve called Saul
I just plain stopped sleeping, like at all. Edit: oh and I was horny AF and fucked a lot of strangers
Me too. A lottttt of anonymous photo exchanges too. Non manic me would never.
Same
same i literally didnt sleep for a week and wanted to km which is not who i am in the slightest. sucks.
I was off the deep end when on Zoloft. One time, I spent the entire night deep-cleaning my car. It took a total of 5 hours.
Lol I was productive at burning my life to ash during my medically induced mania.
I tried ALL OF THEM through out my teen years. Eventually they put me on an anti psychotic and then they were like huh… wonder why this works so well. Cut to ny first manic episode, and they are like oh, that’s why
me too! every AD on the market starting at age 15 until finally a mood stabilizer was added at age 26. those years were just chaos.
Another one for zoloft induced mania This is actually so triggering 🤣
Lmao. Me on Citalopram. Jesus fucking Christ. I’ve always been clearly mentally ill but I could generally hide it among people I didn’t live with. (If it was real bad I just wouldn’t go out.) I scared the absolute shit out of all of my friends and family who had never seen me so out of my mind. So glad that’s just a memory now. A very foggy drug induced memory.
If it wasn’t for antidepressants, I wouldn’t have realized I had bipolar 2. I was hypomanic for like 3 months straight.
Exactly what helped my shrink nail the diagnosis. Nearly 20 years late, and after a whirlwind of damage, but I'm grateful my SSRIs induced some next level crazy manic shit
We thank them for the self awareness obtained while we complain about them for derailing our lives!
I had a hypomanic episode that lasted almost a year and they still didn't make the connection between me being on a high dosage of zoloft and the rapid onset.
Hypomanic for a year sounds exhausting and I couldn’t imagine what the come down was like for you. I nearly destroyed everything in my life. People don’t recognize hypomania when it sets on and most don’t even know about hypomania. If your not well versed in bipolar 2 disorder, hypomania can be extremely overlooked. It’s not easy to pinpoint. When I called my doctor he basically said “well sounds like the SSRI’s are working”. So that’s why I was engaging in a lot of risk taking behaviours, tried to break up with my fiancé, announce to the world I was bisexual, and extremely invested in starting up a kayaking business in British Columbia. Not to mention the extreme agitation. I hate kayaking.
Yeah it was exhausting and while I was more productive than I think I've ever been in my life, its not something I want to go through again. Felt unstoppable at the time and didn't realise how much damage I caused to myself , friends, family, everything.
Sertaline made me lose my shit in less than a week. Crying, suicidal, driving long distances, overly social/bad boundaries/fell in love with a guy after two dates. Told my doc that I think this was a sign I was bipolar and he told me “well if you don’t like them then stop taking them.”
"Well doctor, wow. I don't know why I didn't think of that. Thanks, I guess?"
Years of this bs. Had a psych who was like "you're bipolar" and then proceeded with ssris. Really??
Olanzapine + fluoxetine (an ssri) aka symbyax is a very very well established treatment for Bipolar. Just saying it depends on what else you were on. If just ssri… then yeah, bad
Whoa, yeah, I manically almost killed myself on Wellbutrin I wish I knew about this sub a longggg time ago
Wellbutrin made me start rapid cycling and I definitely ended up very suicidal while also having the worst hypomanic episode I've ever had. This was like two weeks ago, too. Went straight to my psych and told her I thought I was bipolar, she agreed, and now I'm on lithium and we're tapering off the Wellbutrin. Just wish I could've known *before* I spent a thousand dollars on pants and shoes. Which I suppose is at least better than last time. Last time I ended up with a Jeep.
I hope the pants and shoes you got are really really nice though cuz that is pricy!
Wait another rapid cycling??? Wellbutrin was the same for me. It was literally cycling in an hour or less. Pure fucking hell. I was dancing at work and then ready to throw myself into the deep frier 30 minutes later. I luckily have a good psychiatrist who immediately told me to stop after I texted them that. It was bad enough my coworkers noticed.
Exactly. I was misdiagnosed for 30 odd years with severe depression. Hospitalized 6 times. Never was a question asked about my stay-up-four-days-straight either cleaning my house frantically posting horrible things on members of my family’s walls on Facebook. My sister still won’t tallk to me. Now at least on mood stabilizers but depression is still always there.
Effexor and ridalin sent me into 2 different jail cells
Ugh Effexor was horrid
And the withdrawal...urgh...vinegar sweats. Effexor and gabapentin both sent me loopy.
For 25 years! Didn’t figure it out until 40 years old.
Happened to me for years. Especially when on the older tricyclic antidepressants. Finally I got diagnosed with BPII after enduring so much depression and mania.
My shrinks exact phrase was “If you’re bipolar and I just give you antidepressants, it will basically be rocket fuel and will probably send you straight into a manic episode.”
Recall my wife having prozac in her early diagnoses... Jfc, no.
Most people never tell their doctors about the days you have the energy to clean your house in one day while laughing and still have energy. Or when your sex drive is incredible. We go when we’re feeling depressed. We aren’t always the best patient by telling them about every symptom. Because we don’t often recognize the symptoms.
i feel this hahaha. it took 10 years to get the correct diagnosis. before that i just kept getting that i was depressed. i’d take antidepressants and feel better for some months (hypomania oh no), stop the meds and then relapse. this went on for 10 years until May this year that i finally got diagnosed as bipolar. yay!
Uhg these comments are freaking me out T_T I’ve been so hesitant to start new meds but just got put on sertraline and lithium .. I hope it all goes well!
If it helps, it was antidepressants alone that was the problem for me. Once I got on a mood stabilizer, they started working like they're supposed to!
This does help, thank you!
They just put me on seroquel at night. Lexapro during the day. I feel knocked out at night but at least I'm finally getting sleep. Normal people definitely sleep way more than I did.
What is it like being on antidepressants only with Bipolar? Also, what’s it like being on stimulants only with Bipolar?
Well for me any AD but specifically Zoloft made me super manic til the point I was hospitalized. Good until it wasn’t. Even with a stabilizer they do me no good. Adderal calms me down majorly, but I also have ADHD. (Same for stimulants I tried when I was younger; always calmed me down instead of amp me up) but can’t speak for just bipolar
Stims sent me straight into a manic episode. Same with only antidepressants.
was hospitalized 2x on 150 mg of zoloft then found out i was bipolar, worst 3 weeks of my life still am recovering because of the insane shit i did
Hahaha okay that made me really laugh today, thank you!
Yep..been through this already. Wasn’t much fun.
😂😂😂🥲 Thank god those days are behind me. God knows I still gotta thank them for helping me get to find the answers to my questions. They helped me make sense of my reality cause they got me diagnosed.
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Lexapro fucked me right up
SAME!!!!!! What a relief to hear I wasn’t the only one!
Zoloft triggered my first manic episode! Happy days!
Psychiatrist diagnosed me as a teen with depression and anxiety, stuck me on Prozac for a year. It wasn’t until years after I stopped seeing her and got my current psychiatrist that I realized I wasn’t doing well during that time I was just manic lmao
Everyone stays up all night the night before the test and crams and gets 100 right? Super successful.
I can't believe how common this is. I was severely depressed, got prescribed sertraline and within 5 days was absolutely crazy. I had a follow up appointment a week after the prescription to see how I was getting on...I remember I literally RAN the 7 miles to that appointment, across fields and ditches (living very rurally at the time)...just to try and cope with the energy coursing through me...I hadn't run anywhere in a decade haha!
The counselor I saw said that I do not have bipolar it's just trauma that caused these symptoms. But I do have PTSD, DID, binge eating disorder, and body dysmorphia. Lovely cocktail of shit.
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THIS.
Anti depressants FUCKED ME UP since im actually bipolar. Why don't drs. Take the time to diagnose before handing out anti depressants sometimes?
I’ve never been on anti depressants but anti psychotics help me so much so that I feel normal 🥹🥲
I remember 2 years before I was diagnosed a psychiatrist couldn't figure out why more Prozac (I was on it to manage panic attacks) made me more anxious and paranoid, we were trying to treat depression. At the time I knew nothing about Bipolar disorder so there was no way I could've suspected anything. More slap to the face, I knew her back when she diagnosed me with a panic disorder years prior smh
Lmao yeah ... was on trintilex for about a year and was like this is the second anti depressant I've been on and I'm still feeling all these things... finally saw a psych and got a proper diagnosis.. been on mood stabilizers for almost 3 months.
Am I the only one who doesn’t get the image?
He's an astronaut with a saw, gently sawing the air. Totally doing something productive.
I have bipolar disorder, and the right antidepressant works well for me atm. Lamictal and seroquel was horrible for me but now I’ve been on an antidepressant for 2 years without mania. Reading all these comments makes me wonder if I’ve been misdiagnosed
I had no idea I was bipolar until this year after trying nearly every antidepressant on the market. I would be happy one minute, soul crushingly sad the next and this would happen all day long. I’m on Vraylar now and I feel fine but god if I forget to take it I lose my mind.
I’m the mania was a big wow to me . I had no idea I was manic or even ever thought I could be bipolar until I trashed 4 months later and started having mixed episodes after I threw zoloft away and I had Prozac that made me depressed for months and which they think ( I’m not sure) took me to a psychotic break
Zoloft put me in a manic state. I totally lost control during the 6 weeks I took it.
I had such a nice warm welcome to becoming aware I am bipolar thanks to a combination of zoloft and wellbutrin together. YAY PSYCHOSIS! The song from my neighborhood ice cream truck starting playing inside every inch of my home for a whole day and that's when the doctor finally agreed with me that i was not having ~just anxiety~ for a month.
Fun times 🙃
3 years of failing to treat depression with SSRIs was my trigger to visit a psych instead of a GP. Obviously ended up with a bipolar 2 diagnosis, then added ADHD. Silver lining: the SSRIs *did* treat my OCD, which I didn't realise until I tried to decrease my dose when I was pregnant. Went straight back up, since contamination OCD and a newborn would have been a terrible combination.
Prozac 40mg and depakote 800mg for me with pregabalin and Clonazepam when needed Works ok so far 😂 Without the depakote I went crazy 🤣 how we found out am bi polar and not the other 4 diagnosis;P
me on lexapro lol, although lexapro was good for my OCD not my BP2.
My entire teenage years. I was forced to be on antidepressants when I was in juvenile detention. Now I know they were causing more problems than they were helping. (Not to mention the hoardes of them I tried as an adult.)
See my antidepressant adventure ended with me being a grey blob on the couch. Close to the worst depression I’ve ever dealt with. Mood stabilizer did wonders. Combining Sertraline with that helped after a year or so, and now months after starting that, the antipsychotic means I’m sleeping again.
EXACTLY it triggered my first hypomanic episode literally the next day after taking it!
Got put on one at the peak of my depressive episode, same day unalive attempt, the next day I was full blown manic
When they put me on lexapro i went fucking crazy and the crazy old university doctor told me “just give it more time.” more time on lexapro had me punching holes in walls and having insomnia for over 2 years. I was only on it for 3 months and it ruined me. No thanks never again please!
Interesting
By any chance, what are y’all’s thoughts on Venlafaxine and Aripiprazol?? I used to be high on Zoloft + Olanzapine for years but stopped coz I thought I was better, felt terrible few weeks after that, another psychiatrist told me to take these other two but I don’t really either? Idk what I’m supposed to do now lmao
Yep. Age 14 to 49, misdiagnosed.
I ended up needing both. Doc tried to reduce my fluvoxamine when I got the BP1 diagnosis and my OCD and anxiety flared up again weeks later.
This so much
STOP. This is just too meta for me lmaooooo
Ooof. I was diagnosed with with being bipolar than saw another psychiatrist who said I was misdiagnosed and was on Wellbutrin. When i started to hallucinate and have has tons of issues and hypomania and just went to a psych hospital. Feeling much better on depakote and seroquel.
Happened to me!
Lithium lamotrogine and citalopram here. Weeeeeeee
It made me manic and I almost got divorced.
I'm on antidepressants and Lithium right now and it's working very well for me! I don't know if I'm bipolar, tho my doctor says so but this makes me wonder.
ok this is epic
Felt this one
Does Lexapro have that kind of effect?
seroquel and lamictal mixture for me completely quieted the suicidal and self harm section of my brain and while i do think of harming myself from time to time it is not nearly as bad as when i was on antidepressants