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<blockquote data-quote="gcvmom" data-source="post: 184531" data-attributes="member: 3444"><p>See, for me, my anxiety fuels my depression!</p><p> </p><p>I think that there are varying degrees and some overlap with the different disorders. Lots of grey -- very few people who are black and white so to speak. If you think of it in terms of optical prescriptions... there's nearsighted, farsighted and then there's astigmatism. Some people need bifocals! Some need trifocals! </p><p> </p><p>With neurotransmitters, what causes bipolar in one person isn't necessarily the same neurochemical situation for another. </p><p> </p><p>I look at husband and I see someone who has an undx'd mood disorder and maybe a smattering of ADHD (mood swings, rages, impulse control problems, attentional problems, organizational problems). His GP only saw a guy who might have anxiety issues and so he gave him Paxil. And that helped some of his symptoms. Then husband started Lamictal for his seizures: Lo! And Behold! He is a completely different person -- gone are the rages, gone is the emotional reactivity, the impulse control is MUCH improved (not perfect, mind you), he can actually attend to a conversation with me for more than 30 seconds. He is also more productive, more even keeled, and a happier guy. psychiatrist tells me off the record that he always suspected husband to be a depressed person (thus the irritability, the ready-to-fight-with-the-world attitude, the extreme negativity, the lack of motivation, etc.) -- and that would explain why Lamictal has helped, even if it was through the back door. So some people might say husband is some flavor of bipolar.</p><p> </p><p>And then there's difficult child 2, who is another flavor of bipolar, with his own unique response to medications, his own brand of symptoms, some of which are similar to his dad's, and some that are very different. Of course, he's also a child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcvmom, post: 184531, member: 3444"] See, for me, my anxiety fuels my depression! I think that there are varying degrees and some overlap with the different disorders. Lots of grey -- very few people who are black and white so to speak. If you think of it in terms of optical prescriptions... there's nearsighted, farsighted and then there's astigmatism. Some people need bifocals! Some need trifocals! With neurotransmitters, what causes bipolar in one person isn't necessarily the same neurochemical situation for another. I look at husband and I see someone who has an undx'd mood disorder and maybe a smattering of ADHD (mood swings, rages, impulse control problems, attentional problems, organizational problems). His GP only saw a guy who might have anxiety issues and so he gave him Paxil. And that helped some of his symptoms. Then husband started Lamictal for his seizures: Lo! And Behold! He is a completely different person -- gone are the rages, gone is the emotional reactivity, the impulse control is MUCH improved (not perfect, mind you), he can actually attend to a conversation with me for more than 30 seconds. He is also more productive, more even keeled, and a happier guy. psychiatrist tells me off the record that he always suspected husband to be a depressed person (thus the irritability, the ready-to-fight-with-the-world attitude, the extreme negativity, the lack of motivation, etc.) -- and that would explain why Lamictal has helped, even if it was through the back door. So some people might say husband is some flavor of bipolar. And then there's difficult child 2, who is another flavor of bipolar, with his own unique response to medications, his own brand of symptoms, some of which are similar to his dad's, and some that are very different. Of course, he's also a child. [/QUOTE]
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