depression right now. The problem is I can’t get in to see my new psychiatrist until 2-13-08. What can I do until then to stop this from becoming a major episode( I had one over the summer and was in the hospital for it, a depression, and a mania 18 months ago). Thanks.
I do currently take several medications:
Seroquel, Topamax, Valium, and Ambien CR. The Ambien was new prescribed by a reg. doc in exchange for trazadone for sleep but trazadone has antidepressant properties as well as sedative ones. I may just have to go back on the trazadone until I see my new pdoc.

What meds would you recommend for someone who is bipolar, with both the manic and depressive types? Im currently on 300 mg of Wellbutrin and 75 mg of seroquel. It doesn’t seem to be helping much anymore and Im thinking of changing my meds. Thanks.
Im just trying to get an idea of what meds work for others so I know what I should try to see what works for me.

I have been on citalopram for about 2 months, and about 3 days ago i was started on wellbutrin xl. I heard this combo is sometimes used for bipolar II. I feel good today, a little shaky but i have some energy, actually started dancing which i havent done in a few months. usually im in bed or at school. but when i do get this energy it feels so good, i start cleaning, dancing, writing poetry etc. any help is very much appreciated. btw i will be seeing a psychiatrist on thursday
during the first two months of my semester at college i felt good had energy talked to people(which i normally dont do), kept getting a’s and b’s and then during the last month i started feeling like crap i didnt want to do anything but managed to get to school anyway, and i started missing classes(which is why i saw my doctor and was prescribed citalopram). in high school i used to have these crazy mood swings throughtout the day( read somewhere this happens to teens that have bipolar)
the older i got the more spaced out the mood swings got, now that im on citalopram i felt pretty good for a few days and go back to feeling like sh#t, i thought it was just the meds working .

i’ve always wanted to be a cop.i just wanted to know if this disability would be a red flag for a police position.
i just wonder if i have chance at being a cop in my home land the u.s.a.

My boyfriend has a bipolar II. he has been on meds for past 2 years. We know each other only for 5 months.We dont get to spend time together because we live far apart. He wants to marry me. I like him a lot. I told him that i am ready to marry him. My problem is sometimes i find him very insensitive. Although we never had sex, i thinks he is too much interested in it. He always talks abt sex. When ever i tell him that i think he doesnt care about me or he is being insensitive, he says that he knows and he is trying to improve himself. He talks in a very nice and polite way. I dont know what t do..do u think i should marry him?

I’ve been with this 2+ years and taking meds ever since.
I heard rumors from my pharmacist she said it will just stay for a while. is this true? please show me proof.

Please let me know if there will be a cure within 10 years from now

Am I 30% disabled or more?

I am tired of life. I am fed up with all of what this “world” has to offer. I am fairly intelligent and realize that I will never be happy because of my defect. The depression will not let me loose.
I always take my meds and I don’t drink or do anything outside of what is prescribed by my doc.

I already received SSD/SSDI/SSI for almost 3 years and wanted to know if I will re-qualify for it since my mental illness gets worse when I am under stress for example, after working 2-4 hours a day I came home and took my medications, but I couldn’t go to sleep until after 3am and came home very irritated and angry/hostile without being able to sleep until 3am-4am and I think this is because stress reduces the effect of my medications.
I was qualified for SSD/SSDI/SSI 3 years ago because I was irritated/hostile, homicidal, suicidal and couldn’t sleep more than 2 hours a day and had some paranoia and I still do but not as severe as before, and another reason because the Military Army Reserve said that they had to discharge me (unfit to be in the military anymore) due to my mental illness so I wasn’t able to deploy to Kuwait.
I tried going back to the military and was denied because they said I take medications. It seems the medications work well only when I have no stress.
GUYS, this is bologni, the social security already told me they will review my case every 3 years to make sure that I’m still disabled.

What the heck is all this about if they know that my mental illness is permanent. I already tried working part-time 3-4 hours a day and I couldn’t keep up anymore because I came out very irritated and a little bit hostile and extremely angry for no reason. This are the main symptoms of my schizoaffective bipolar type I

Hi. I have recently been diagnosed with Type 2 Bipolar/Mood Disorder. I am pretty unfamiliar with what all of these means, what to expect as I go through treatment, the different types of treatment available, etc. I know what I was feeling, but don’t know much beyond that. This is a pretty new concept to me… Actually, the whole fact that there is 2 types of Bipolar is new to me. I have been put on Abilitfy. This is also a new medicine for me. I am looking for any information, advice, hints/tips/suggestions, and/or personal stories about either Type 2 Bipolar and/or Abilify. Anything and Everything that you may be able to tell me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I’m not sure whether or not this will matter, but when I first saw my psychiatrist I was on Celexa. He has decided to keep me on the celexa, but also put me on the abilify. Not really sure the reason for that? don’t they do the same thing?