does this sound like bipolar?

[susL62]

I have been diagnosed with Major depression for the past 15 years.  Also have PTSD, and anxiety issues.  Recently attempted suicide, did not succeed.  Following a switch from paxil to prozac over the past few weeks.  Have been having really strange symptoms of feeling that I could fly to intense anger back to despondency.  Having strange impulsive thoughts that are out of character for me.  I seem to remember back 15 years ago that I was initially diagnosed with cyclothymia, and then moved back to my original home state and saw someone else that said it was Major depresssion and not cyclothymia.  Currently psychiatrist in a partial hospital program that put me on Prozac said I now need to get off Prozac and we will try something else.  She doesn't know if it is bipolar, but she          thinks it is "activating me", and prescribed Risperadal 0.5 mg at bedtime, and told me to stop the Prozac.  We are supposed to address the issue tommorow, but I was wondering if this could indeed be a form of bipolar.  I have had similar hyped up feelings over the last 15 years, although not to this current severity.  Would appreciate an opinion from the doctor on this forum as well as others familiar with bipolar and major depression.  Thank You!!!

susan

[susL62]

Thanks DLA for responding.  The psych. stated that I was definetly in a manic state in observing the change in me from Friday to today.  She still won't state if it is definetly bipolar.  But she increased my Risperadal and put me on Lithium 300 mg 3x dly.  Took my first dose late this afternoon,  will be taking second dose soon.  Well, I guess it is a waiting game now.  Thanks for your help

Susan

[DLA]

Well, there is no dr on this forum.  This is for patient-to-patient only.

Cyclothymia is bipolar disorder, just a different form the Bipolar I or Bipolar II.  So they already dx you with it before.  

If you are bp and they only put you on an AD then you would have severe mania.  Some of us have very mild mania but really bad depression.  Works different ways for different people.

Let us know what happens with the pdoc tomorrow.