if your bipolar , what do you do if you get a hypo/manic attack
i havn't had any since like last year , but i think i've been in one for like 2~3 days , talk way too much , too edgy , irritable ........
i'm not liking it , although for the past year i thought iw ould , it just makes me look soo stupid no one listens to me because i say all kind of i think , idk
the weird thing i have been in a depression phase for a while and followed by this , which is weird , maybe it was caused by antidepressants? idk

what do you dooo?

I been bi polar for as long as I can remember, my youngest girl is too. She takes lithium for it cause it is pretty severe. I love the manic phase mostly. It is the other end that really gets me down. (fittingly) Certain anti depressants can help but it is a hassle. Physical activity can help draw off all the extra energy and work hard to think before you speak. It takes practice tho, lots of it. Count to 10 before you respond to anyone or anything.

I've had conflicting diagnoses (depression and bipolar). I've never found my "up" phases, whether you call them hypomania or just "normal," to be problematic. If it's a problem for you, then you probably want to talk to your doctor about a mood stabilizer to use alongside your antidepressant. There are a bunch of options - lithium, atypical antipsychotics, some seizure meds, possibly more stuff since I last checked - with different side effect profiles. As I understand it, if you're bipolar, it's not usually a good idea to take antidepressants without a mood stabilizer, although your doctor would be the final authority on that.

my doc prescribed me a hell lot of meds and since i'm also epileptic she added other meds depakine olanzpine benztropine risperidone ..and the list goes on so for me it was too much to take, so long while ago i decided to stop meds for some reason and since its not too severe or dangerous
i liked the 'happy' phase , but since my last encounters with it has caused me nothing but trouble i'm trying to contain it and stay home lock myself up anything
but you can imagine the agony of staying in one place while you wanna do ANYTHING and all kind of brilliant and/or fun thaughts rushes into your head and you don't do it . and i havn't slept for 60 hours now and although i on't feel the need to sleep but i know i do . i'm trying to stop it that's the problem , and i don't want to go to the doctor and i won't i don't know why though

i just realized i never said thanks, so honestly thanks for your input . and i apologize for that utter nonsense i said here in that post (i would delete it but it would be dishonest) as i have found out that all i needed to do is to get out and just let myself be , without trying anything , instead of locking myself in which almost drove me crazy regardless what medical issue i was having
and now i feel really awesome that i did get out and had fun

so basically i'm saying thank you ,and  sorry for this post (this is the kind of stupid stuff that i do sometimes)

My dad is really bad, or was. I remember once he was just on antidepressants and it was really bad. Went totally loopy. When he is high he is a creative machine, but spends all his money. When he is low he often got violent. His phases would last a week or more, and he shifted up and down most months. Perhaps 1 week out of 4 he was 'level'. Much better now though.

It is both a blessing and a curse. It can be awesome creative fuel, but you have to learn to live with the changes...

I'm bipolar II.  When I feel myself going into hypomania I try to catch it early and pop a seraquel before I go to bed.  I learnt to pick up on real early signs, like when I can't stop talking, don't want to sleep, feel like socialising hard out.  If don't medicate it, I try to stay away from situations where I'm gonna get way over stimulated.  I know if I'm feeling a bit hypomanic and say, go out to a gig or a party, I end up even worse and it lasts longer. I usually say/do inappropriate stuff too.

I've been mostly good since I started lithium last year.  It's done wonders for me, I used to be constant ups and downs and triggered into hypomania really easily. I get a lot more stuff done too. Having something like an antipsychotic to take the edge off the mania can help. Seraquel can bring me down from being way too high nicely.  One of my main problems is stress, if I get too stressed or busy I end up either manic or depressed.

And yeah, the hypomania has often helped out my art practise.  I think of amazing ideas when I'm high.  Or at least I think they're amazing, often they're just...crazy. 

Oh! Edit to add, I recommend the book "Overcoming Mood Swings".  My pdoc recommended it to me, it's like a workbook to help you recognise how yr own patterns work. Really helped me out.

Hi,
I take Lithium for Type 2 Bipolar, and I'm fine on that. I am concerned that Lithium and Testosterone may interact?

Some friends and family seem to think that me coming out as transgendered is just a manic episode, which makes me really angry  - surely it's possible to be bipolar AND trans?? Oh, and when I finally told my Mum, she responded by sending me two big fat books on depression!

Anyone else in the same boat?

QuoteHi,
I take Lithium for Type 2 Bipolar, and I'm fine on that. I am concerned that Lithium and Testosterone may interact?

Some friends and family seem to think that me coming out as transgendered is just a manic episode, which makes me really angry  - surely it's possible to be bipolar AND trans?? Oh, and when I finally told my Mum, she responded by sending me two big fat books on depression!

Anyone else in the same boat?

yeah i know what your talking about ,though not in ts-related stuff , family often think that i'm just hypomanic when i tell them somethings , although i very rarely actually have a a hypomanic attack . but if you are persistent enough they soon realize that your serious about it and that it's real
it's just denial i guess

Quote from: Turtle on June 14, 2010, 05:53:17 AM
Hi,
I take Lithium for Type 2 Bipolar, and I'm fine on that. I am concerned that Lithium and Testosterone may interact?

Some friends and family seem to think that me coming out as transgendered is just a manic episode, which makes me really angry  - surely it's possible to be bipolar AND trans?? Oh, and when I finally told my Mum, she responded by sending me two big fat books on depression!

Anyone else in the same boat?

Yeah I have problems with that too.  My psychiatrist told me I'd have to work extra hard to prove I'm stable.  It's funny though, I could only start to address my identity once my bipolar stabilized. Before, I was way to crazy to even come to terms with it.

I have Bipolar type 2, and take Prozac for it. For the most part, this eliminates my hypomanic and depressive episodes, but I do have the occasional ones. The strangest thing I've found is that when I'm hypomanic, massive amounts of caffeine will make it go away. It seems counterintuitive, but it works.

SD

Interesting! I take prozac for the depression side of things, before I was diagnosed bp. It made me have a lot more hypomania though, so that's when I started lithium and the two work really well together for me.  Caffeine makes me hypomanic! However, I have a friend who is bipolar and adhd and she drinks tonnes of coffee and energy drinks to keep her calm.  Cos Ritalin works in the same way for ADHD people, most take it and get sped up, but the people who need it get slowed down. It's all about yr brain chemistry I guess.

im a possible canidate cause of my family but ive been taking like antidepressants but i stopped in like 7th grade and some mood stabelizers but the schools dont like the idea of that and thats where i get the most "edgy" but when i get close to a panic attack or freak out on some jerks at school i usualy take the friday off or i start writing songs in a journal