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Not such good news for our bi-polar difficult children
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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 223780" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>I thought I'd come back and weigh in on this.</p><p></p><p>It has long been known that controlling seizures leads to depression. What isn't known is why. Is it actually the control of the seizure activity that causes depression? Don't forget that electoconvulsive therapy -- shock treatments -- are electrically induced convulsions and an effective, though controversial, treatment for severe depression which doesn't respond to other treatment. Coincidence? </p><p></p><p>All that said, my son's suicidal ideation which was caused by antidepressants continued while he took just Lamictal, though certainly not as bad as when he was taking Celexa. And I am convinced now that the Lamictal made his anxiety worse. I had an episode of acute depressed when I took Dilantin. And the only time I had panic attacks was during those years. The Tegretol caused too much cognitive dulling for me figure out if I was actually depressed or not. We were both pretty much seizure free when we took those drugs but neither of us had a lot of seizure activity.</p><p></p><p>My friend with epilepsy whom I mentioned a number of times has control of his sometimes daily seizures for the first time in 40+ years on a combo of Lamictal and Topamax but he has to take Lexapro because he's severely depressed and, yes, suicidal. </p><p></p><p>Is it the drugs? Is it the control of seizures? Or both?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 223780, member: 1498"] I thought I'd come back and weigh in on this. It has long been known that controlling seizures leads to depression. What isn't known is why. Is it actually the control of the seizure activity that causes depression? Don't forget that electoconvulsive therapy -- shock treatments -- are electrically induced convulsions and an effective, though controversial, treatment for severe depression which doesn't respond to other treatment. Coincidence? All that said, my son's suicidal ideation which was caused by antidepressants continued while he took just Lamictal, though certainly not as bad as when he was taking Celexa. And I am convinced now that the Lamictal made his anxiety worse. I had an episode of acute depressed when I took Dilantin. And the only time I had panic attacks was during those years. The Tegretol caused too much cognitive dulling for me figure out if I was actually depressed or not. We were both pretty much seizure free when we took those drugs but neither of us had a lot of seizure activity. My friend with epilepsy whom I mentioned a number of times has control of his sometimes daily seizures for the first time in 40+ years on a combo of Lamictal and Topamax but he has to take Lexapro because he's severely depressed and, yes, suicidal. Is it the drugs? Is it the control of seizures? Or both? [/QUOTE]
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