Is it bi-polar or something else?

[dallasm78]

I have been told by my family doctor that what i have is major depression and panic attacks however i am starting to wonder if it could be something else.
I have all the classic symptoms of bi-polar however I am extremely tired all the time and they tell me that i can't be bi-polar because of that.
I have been treated for depression for over 7 years now and panic attacks for the last year.
I live in a very remote town and I have no access to a professional pcsyhotrist. (Sorry for the Spelling).
It is 600 km over a dirt road to the nearest other town and they don't have anyone either. I have checked.
I would have to buy a plane ticket to go to the nearest health care facility with the proper help and the cost for a plane ticket is around $1400 to $1500 just for me to go.
I have joined this site in hopes that someone can help me down the right path with a good idea of a diganosis before I leave here this summer to go to the town with the proper help. I go out of here every summer and that is my only chance of seeing who I need to see.
For now I just need a friend who can help me thru and maybe shed some light on my condition.


I feel like it is a form of bi-polar I have because I have most of the problems like bi-polar however the last doctor I spoke to about this quickly dismissed it.

[hi_you]

bipolar has extreme highs and extreme lows..............they experience mild hallucinations all the time and sometimes wild hallucinations............they cant able to focus even they wanted to................................................they experience different moods all the time.......you cant really predict abipolar easily because it seems that they have different prsonalities because of their disorder or different thinking one AT A TIME...THEY OFTEN EXPERIECE CONFUSIon/.....I think that is not bipolar..................maybr you are exp[eriencing diferent illness

[azalea82]

What medications are you currently taking?
Do you feel they are helping?

[irishwriter]

ask doc has he/she ever heard of bi polar with dysphoric mania which is what i have, all the wonderful depression and agitation (mania with depression) without any of the highs. why suggest shock therapy for depression? sorry you don't have better care. best of luck in the town/ you could keep a mood diary before you go so that you can show pdoc when you get there. good luck with it.

[BeckyUK2001]

I have had Depression for 16-years and I have been diagnosed with Bipolar for the last 9-years and I am tired all the time or have very low energy most of the time. Those Dr's do not know what they are talking about hon.

[dallasm78]

i have been tested for anemia, diabetes, and high and low blood pressure. I have also had my chloresterol checked and get blood tests ever 6 months to monitor my b12 levels.
I have asked the doctors if anything else can be checked but being here in this small town we just don't have the resources or equipment to check more extensifly
I will be in a city that has all the facilitys i need at this summer coming so i am going to try to work on me till then and go for walks when i get stressed out to much. Then I am very slowly going to start trying to ween myself of the medication with the advice of a professioanl I have spoke to on here. But this will be a slower process because of the high dose of celexa i am on.
The last time I asked a doctor if there was anything else they could do for me besides the meds all he said was the only other options was EST. And I am not getting that done for anyone.

[cowgirlnerd]

Oh My!  How wrong can they be!!!  Bi Polar isn't a constant state of "Up" - we have SEVERE down in which we can barely function.  You might have major depression - tiredness, etc., is a sympton.

What are you saying are your classic symptoms of bipolar?