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878247 tn?1244456194

Help pleaseee!!

I have been diagnosed with Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder II, in my opinion is not to much depression as Anxiety.I can not use antidepresants as they make me very anxious. So, they prescribed anti-anxiety pills also wich make me fill like a zombie, lossing memory and lack of attention, so I lost my job and friends. Then, then decided to prescribe mood stabilizers then my TSH test got affected and they prescribed me thyroids pills. They put me with Quetiepine and I got  a seizure and paralized muscles (and tongue).  Anyway, I stoped funtioning and overmedicated, no energy, pannic, social fobia, and so on... I decided to stop (gradually) everything by myself and after a couple of months I am feeling MUCH better now...even, I came back to work, But, its difficult to deal with my changes of mood and thoughs , can not manage  any emotion (neither bad nor good ones) they are so frecuents. My husband is not able to deal with it, he gets stucked on fights with me and I am really hurt. What to do?? Either or, with or without medications my life is so miserable!!! Sometimes I think about killing myself would stop my pain and the troubles to the rest of the people around me, Note: I have tried aditional treatments as nature pills, counselling, workshops, relaxations CDs, auto hypnosis therapy, positive afirmations, tons of books, religions, prayers, and so on with no results... Someone help me , pleaseeee!!
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574118 tn?1305135284
Hi
I have BP2 like you and depression is the main concern

Although I have no clue better than the above replies, yet I know an antidepressant which is VERY good for anxiety. From the minute I tried it and have no anxiety. It's called coaxil in the americas and tianeptine/stablon in europe. Right now I am on it for the last 5 months and still works. I tried cipralex/lexapro and paxil/seroxat as well as tricyclics but it was hell, never functioned and manic most of the time. You may tell the name to your pdoc
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1039200 tn?1314912008
I can empathise with your feelings. When I first got diagnosed with bipolar and put on meds, I was glad to be stable, then I longed to be 'the old me' and to my horror found that I could not just go back to being the person before the illness just by stopping them, and that was that. BIG SHOCK, it was like grieving. Life since then has been a process of making the most of the choices I do have left and one of them is balancing medications.

However, it seems that for every pill one takes for psychiatric illness there is always a price. The real task is finding the right combination where the benefits outweigh the negative effects, and this can take time as I have found out.
What we are not allowed to do is 'give up'.

The other thing about bipolar is the that the goalposts keep changing due to the natural course of our illness, and this means that medications may have to be adjusted accordingly during the course of our lifetime. This is the nature of the illness and those with rapid mood changes may find that once they get used to a certain med they then have to change, which can be exasperating, and can make one feel as if nothing is working.

I would urge you to use the mood tracker, and take it along to your psychiatrist so he can have a better idea of what's going on. Remember that a psychiatrist is only as good as the information he is given, so write a note of all the points you have made here including the positives and negatives of all the medication you have tried. The sooner you do this, the sooner you can regain some control over your life.
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I agree with the past two posts.  You need different help. Just because they have psychiatrist after their name doesn't mean they are the right one for you. Mood Disorder doc, yep, agree.
I have been at times in the beginning on the rollercoaster of antidepressants and mood coaster rides.
Try not to be scared, we are here and most of us have been through the trenches learning on our own, through books, and all the things you have described.  But the difference is nothing is helping you.
Please seek professional a different doc asap.
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626901 tn?1261872805
i agree....you SERIOUSLY need to find another health professional to help you out with this.  We've all been on what my daughter calls the "bipolar train" (she even bought me a sticker) and we understand the frustration.  remember....YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!
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585414 tn?1288941302
There's a lot going on. You might want to go to a mood disorders specialist who would understand the full options as regards mood stabilizers that are FDA approved medications but used off label experimentally. I don't know if they all would affect a person's thyroid as they are completely different medication groups but a doctor would be able to answer that question.Here is a list:
http://www.psycheducation.org/depression/meds/moodstabilizers.htm
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