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you’re nothing but a drug addict. you are not a bipolar get the fuck out of here. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >I had very similar symptoms with bipolar disorder. I am also an ultra >rapid cycling beeper and many times would be irritable while >hypomanic. This would normally happen just before my mood would swing >low. I never had really bad depression until much later. You certainly >could have bipolar disorder from the symptoms you describe, but then >there are other illnesses that would give similar symptoms too. I >would suggest that if you are just seeing a general practitioner, that >you go find a psychiatrist and have him evaluate you. I take Klonopin >on a fairly regular basis and it helps a lot for anxiety and >irritability. >Also keep in mind that it is very common for bipolars to be >misdiagnosed at first. >Good luck and let us know how it turns out. >HoPpeR >informed me of this: ><Ive never posted here before. But I need some damn help. I was first ><diagnosed with depression and panic disorder a little over a year >ago. ><I made progress on zoloft and therapy. over the past month or so Ive ><had returning symptoms, very bad panic attacks, high anxiety, ><depressed mood….but also with all of this extreme irratibility. At ><first I didnt even notice, then people were telling me how I was ><acting that I was lashing out and snapping at them. I had no clue at ><first.  Then I started experiencing mood swings from parts of the day ><feeling great, hyper, talkative very happy…then all of the sudden I ><can just crash into depressed feelings, bad anxiety. I feel no ><normalcy. Could this be a sign of bipolar? I just dont know, Im >really ><really worried.  At times I feel like I dont even know if I can ><control anger and the irritibillity.  Other times I want to fall ><asleep and never wake up again.  I was doing so well and now I feel ><like Im going backwards.  After 2 weeks of the anxiety/depression ><returning my doc started switching over to effexor. last week I ><started klonopin for the anxiety just for a couple weeks till the ><effexor is up to a theraputic dose I guess. It seems to have leveled ><me out a little but I just dont know……anyone have any experiences ><like this? HELP PLEASE!

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Ive never posted here before. But I need some damn help. I was first diagnosed with depression and panic disorder a little over a year ago. I made progress on zoloft and therapy. over the past month or so Ive had returning symptoms, very bad panic attacks, high anxiety, depressed mood….but also with all of this extreme irratibility. At first I didnt even notice, then people were telling me how I was acting that I was lashing out and snapping at them. I had no clue at first.  Then I started experiencing mood swings from parts of the day feeling great, hyper, talkative very happy…then all of the sudden I can just crash into depressed feelings, bad anxiety. I feel no normalcy. Could this be a sign of bipolar? I just dont know, Im really really worried.  At times I feel like I dont even know if I can control anger and the irritibillity.  Other times I want to fall asleep and never wake up again.  I was doing so well and now I feel like Im going backwards.  After 2 weeks of the anxiety/depression returning my doc started switching over to effexor. last week I started klonopin for the anxiety just for a couple weeks till the effexor is up to a theraputic dose I guess. It seems to have leveled me out a little but I just dont know……anyone have any experiences like this? HELP PLEASE!

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