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« on: July 26, 2010, 10:12:25 PM » |
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I am curious because I was under the impression that mixed moods are 50/50. However, I was reading about them and found the terms "dysphoric mania" and "agitated depression". Apparently for some at least, there is a predominant mood I guess like predominantly manic for dysphoric mania and predominantly depressed for agitated depression. Another explanation was depression plus mania and then depression plus hypomania. My shrink never told me which one...I can ask him...but I pretty much know that the latest thing I went through was more manicky than depressed.
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« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2010, 05:25:47 AM » |
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I always thought it was depression/ mania or hypomania. Never heard of those other terms.
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« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2010, 07:23:08 AM » |
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I voted 50/50 but it may be "agitated depression", like Phyllis I have never heard those terms.
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« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2010, 09:09:47 AM » |
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When I was at the Pdoc in March she told me I was having mixed episodes...my previous Doc had said I was a rapid cycler. The mixed episode DX was sort of surprising, but the Doc had me research about dysphoric mania..and it does describe what I was going through at that time.
Wikipedia has an explanation about mixed states that was easy to understand.
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« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2010, 12:54:07 PM » |
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I talked to my therapist today and he put it like this: back in jan/feb I had a manic episode and went up on the lithium and did fine. Then I got a stressful job and the manic episode broke through. Now I'm on lithium and lamictal and doing way better. So what he was saying is I guess my pdoc thinks its the same manic episode. I guess the breaking through stuff happened to be dysphoric mania rather than more euphoric like before.
Before being diagnosed, I thought when my mania turned dysphorc, I was depressed. The manic me was the normal me, I thought. Then when I had a major depressive episode, I thought there was something physically wrong with me.
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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2010, 04:29:56 PM » |
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:shrug: I've always thought 50/50 as I can be manic as hell and want to kill myself at the same time.
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« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2010, 04:50:41 PM » |
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dysphoric mania for me, its one of the most confusing things I experience, I have all the racing thoughts, the creativity and sometimes even the energy but I can't get rid of this nagging depression that eats into it. I do find though for me its a warning sign for rapid cycling which leads to the whole 50/50 thing lol. Its funny though, being depressed and having the urge to burst into hysterical laughter for no obvious reason, I sort of enjoy that little space in my head. Sounds odd I know, but while in that state my depression has no hope of taking me into seriously black areas, instead its just confusing and enlightening.
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« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2010, 02:34:54 PM » |
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I thought it was just me Cadno. I remember this time I was with on of my friends and I was balling my eyes out any talking about everything that sucked. He was scared and didn't know how to help me and then I started laughing hysterically. He was perplexed and extremely concerned...then I started crying again because of some little thing and another friend called his cell and he told her I was crying but before he finished explaining it I was laughing again and couldn't stop to even talk to her on the phone. I just keep going back and forth like that.  |
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« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2010, 02:49:38 PM » |
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It's like hysterical laughter followed by hysterical grief...over & over  |
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« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2010, 06:54:58 PM » |
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I was actually doing that last night to the point that my laughing got maniacal. I was streaming with tears, punching walls and generally ready to tear things apart, yet I was laughing so much. I've not done it today, but part of me thinks that's a bad thing, as odd as it sounds it does release a lot out of you when it happens.
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« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2010, 10:49:00 PM » |
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I do that too, I'll have a bad night laughing and crying and wanting to break stuff (like that night I broke a paint roller stick and later used to to play drums on his weight bench laughing my ass off). Then the next day I won't do any of it, but yet don't feel any better, maybe even worse.
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« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2010, 05:49:07 PM » |
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See, suddenly this song comes to mind 
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