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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 658626" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Ok, ok.</p><p></p><p>What kind of bipolar did your psychiatrist say you had? Do you get totally psychotic manic? There is a huge difference between what was once called bipolar II and is now usually called mood disorder not otherwise specified, where you get a little high, very low, and can get mixed. The Bipolar I is the rarest kind. A plain mood disorder with anxiety and panic disorder are a common set of diagnosis.</p><p></p><p>The stuff recommended here is very expensive and in my experience never helped me at all. Exercise has, but not by itself. Still, I'm surprised nobody mentioned that because it has been proven to work against depression and anxiety. Nothing else has been studied, as far as more natural remdies and none did anything for me. That doesn't mean they won't work for you, but if you have a more serious mood disorder and anxiety, you will need medication.</p><p>It does not sound like this one is going to work for you since you feel worse. If you have a mood disorder without getting totally manic SSRIs can be very helpful as they are for me. Everyone is different.</p><p></p><p>One thing I did always is stay active in my care, find info and share what I wanted to do with my psychiarist. If a medication was making me feel more anxious than before I was on it, I did not continue it. Once, on Zoloft, the first dose REALLY helped me. I felt normal again. By the se cond week I was in ER with a heartbeat so fast they couldn't get a reading and akathesia just on the day my boys were graduating eighth grade...lol. If you don't know what akathesia is, it is a restlessness where you can not sit down...you feel as if you are jumping out of your skin. In order to go to graduation at all, I was ordered 5 mgs. of Valium once an hour. That's a lot, but it made me able to go while the Zoloft ebbed out of my system.</p><p></p><p>It took me ten years to find a good medication combination and in the meantime I did extensive therapy and self-help, but I still was not close to 100% until a medication, which I call The Magic Pill, seemed to transform my depressioin/anxiety overnight. I've never been too bad since. It takes patience, but if a medicaiton is making you feel worse, why suffer? Tell your psychiarist you can not handle how nervous this medication makes you feel and he will gladly remove it and probably try something else. That is the usual mo. It is all trial and error and hopefully you will respond to something eventually, like I did.</p><p></p><p>If you want to, in the meantime, try vitamins, iron, supplements, anything go for it, but remember that THEY can cause side effects too. I had a Niacin side affect and ended up, yep, in ER. I had a bag full of vitamins that had been recommended me and my doctor chewed me out for taking them without a doctor' overseeing it.</p><p></p><p>Things that have been proven to help depression, at least a little (and often ONLY a little) are exercise and the more the better, meditation (ditto), classical music and, as far as I know, nothing else. medications can be a Godsend. The right medications. Situational depression is more open to natural remedies but, like me, you have the inherited kind that was always there and our sort of mood and anxiety disorder is more serious and harder to treat and does not go away just because our life changes for the better.</p><p></p><p>Don't be hard on yourself. This is NOT your fault. I hope you are not timid to speak up to your psychiatrist. You have to tell him how you are feeling because that is t he only way he will know. Psychiatrists, more than any doctors, need to hear the truth from us or they are in the dark. There are no blood tests for any psychiatric illnesses which is why they are so often misdiagnosed and why the names and symptoms in the DSM change so fast. We ARE making some progress in brain imagery, but we have a long way to go.</p><p></p><p>Since doctors can't diagnose us with certainty, it is impossible for others to either and it is equally impossible for any of us to know what will help you, but I'm sure every one of us hopes something helps you and that it hapens soon. Try maybe going off the medication (with a doctor's guidance) and see if you feel less anxious. Many medication trials I'd been on made me MORE nervous, not less.He can put you on another antidepressant that is maybe more sedating and less apt to make you nervous. </p><p></p><p>It goes without saying that stress is terrible when you are already jumpy so counting the days with you until your new job!!!!! Keep on fighting. You will make it. If I did, anyone can. I had these things pretty seriously and since childhood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 658626, member: 1550"] Ok, ok. What kind of bipolar did your psychiatrist say you had? Do you get totally psychotic manic? There is a huge difference between what was once called bipolar II and is now usually called mood disorder not otherwise specified, where you get a little high, very low, and can get mixed. The Bipolar I is the rarest kind. A plain mood disorder with anxiety and panic disorder are a common set of diagnosis. The stuff recommended here is very expensive and in my experience never helped me at all. Exercise has, but not by itself. Still, I'm surprised nobody mentioned that because it has been proven to work against depression and anxiety. Nothing else has been studied, as far as more natural remdies and none did anything for me. That doesn't mean they won't work for you, but if you have a more serious mood disorder and anxiety, you will need medication. It does not sound like this one is going to work for you since you feel worse. If you have a mood disorder without getting totally manic SSRIs can be very helpful as they are for me. Everyone is different. One thing I did always is stay active in my care, find info and share what I wanted to do with my psychiarist. If a medication was making me feel more anxious than before I was on it, I did not continue it. Once, on Zoloft, the first dose REALLY helped me. I felt normal again. By the se cond week I was in ER with a heartbeat so fast they couldn't get a reading and akathesia just on the day my boys were graduating eighth grade...lol. If you don't know what akathesia is, it is a restlessness where you can not sit down...you feel as if you are jumping out of your skin. In order to go to graduation at all, I was ordered 5 mgs. of Valium once an hour. That's a lot, but it made me able to go while the Zoloft ebbed out of my system. It took me ten years to find a good medication combination and in the meantime I did extensive therapy and self-help, but I still was not close to 100% until a medication, which I call The Magic Pill, seemed to transform my depressioin/anxiety overnight. I've never been too bad since. It takes patience, but if a medicaiton is making you feel worse, why suffer? Tell your psychiarist you can not handle how nervous this medication makes you feel and he will gladly remove it and probably try something else. That is the usual mo. It is all trial and error and hopefully you will respond to something eventually, like I did. If you want to, in the meantime, try vitamins, iron, supplements, anything go for it, but remember that THEY can cause side effects too. I had a Niacin side affect and ended up, yep, in ER. I had a bag full of vitamins that had been recommended me and my doctor chewed me out for taking them without a doctor' overseeing it. Things that have been proven to help depression, at least a little (and often ONLY a little) are exercise and the more the better, meditation (ditto), classical music and, as far as I know, nothing else. medications can be a Godsend. The right medications. Situational depression is more open to natural remedies but, like me, you have the inherited kind that was always there and our sort of mood and anxiety disorder is more serious and harder to treat and does not go away just because our life changes for the better. Don't be hard on yourself. This is NOT your fault. I hope you are not timid to speak up to your psychiatrist. You have to tell him how you are feeling because that is t he only way he will know. Psychiatrists, more than any doctors, need to hear the truth from us or they are in the dark. There are no blood tests for any psychiatric illnesses which is why they are so often misdiagnosed and why the names and symptoms in the DSM change so fast. We ARE making some progress in brain imagery, but we have a long way to go. Since doctors can't diagnose us with certainty, it is impossible for others to either and it is equally impossible for any of us to know what will help you, but I'm sure every one of us hopes something helps you and that it hapens soon. Try maybe going off the medication (with a doctor's guidance) and see if you feel less anxious. Many medication trials I'd been on made me MORE nervous, not less.He can put you on another antidepressant that is maybe more sedating and less apt to make you nervous. It goes without saying that stress is terrible when you are already jumpy so counting the days with you until your new job!!!!! Keep on fighting. You will make it. If I did, anyone can. I had these things pretty seriously and since childhood. [/QUOTE]
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