I'm depressive predominant. I've been on lithium for about 10 years, but since my diagnosis changed from bipolar disorder to schizoaffective disorder, I'm also on latuda. I also take quetiapine to help me sleep. It took some time to get my meds right, but now I've been stable since October, which is great. 😀
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Depression predominant. I started SSRI's in High School which woke up the mania. When Prozac didn't work and Zoloft made me disassociate and believe I could communicate directly with nature, my PCP should not have put me on Effexor. Ended up dropping out of college because my mixed episode got so bad that I was making horrendous decisions, getting high instead of doing work, and I was suicidal 24/7. There are totally, 100% signs that a child is going to become bipolar later in life, and an inventory should be taken before they're put on SSRI's in the first place. I was originally Bipolar 2, and I would've never experienced full mania if it weren't for antidepressants.
i was treated for depression with anti-depressants the last couple decades and i never felt good . my doctor kept switching doses and would add other drugs to help with anxiety. it made it worse. Isuicidal at one point. i medicated with whatever substance i could get my hands until i was a full fledge daily addict . i checked myself into rehab after a failed suicide attempt. thankfully my wife pushed me to go for a longer concurrent program and i was able to get a proper bi pilar 2 diagnoses. i am now 4 months clean and being treated for bi polar 2 with a mood stabilizer. i have never felt better , things are now healing with my kids and wife . i realize now this will be a life long battle. my thoughts are with everyone here struggling. i hope you find peace . ❤
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I wish I’ve had a doctor as good as you. I sent my therapist your video on BPD and she was very impressed, and she specializes in BPD at Yale. Your videos are so informative Thank you, you can’t imagine how much you are helping me in my walk with bipolar and BPD and PTSD. ( luckily me, I have it all).
Sinead O'Connor has borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder and complex PTSD. She wrote a really good autobiography a couple of years ago, and although it's not a medical or psychiatric memoir as such, it's still a really good book.
Yes I do know that BPD is borderline. Quite aware. I have been diagnosed with it, and I spent 9 and a half months in Yale out patient hospital doing DBT. So yeah, I’m quite aware
I've been on Lamotrigine for years with great success. Having been on many antipsychotics over the years, I find the disregard for permanent TD symptoms to be way underappreciated when when doctors prescribe Abilify etcetera. It doesn't really matter if you're under control if you can't leave the house because you're drooling. I also have friends with bipolar disorder who are on Seroquel, are experiencing TD side effects and their doctor has them remain on Seroquel I don't understand why doctors doesn't don't understand the importance and the disruption of life when you have tardive dyskinesia. In fact many doctors don't tell don't even tell their patients that Abilify can cause TD. I know a lot of people with bipolar disorder and very few are educated that the medications they are on can cause lifelong dyskinesia. As somebody who's developed TD after being on seroquel and Risperdal, it makes me really angry that there was very little attention paid to the fact that I was beginning symptoms of TD. And least of all that these types of medications are not discontinued when this serious side effect begins. I'd love for you to do a video on tardive dyskinesia and how disruptive towards life it can be. I'd almost rather be depressed then unable to leave the house because I'm drooling constantly. And friends who have started lip smacking or their tongue hanging out of their mouth. It's just awful that these things are disregarded as it seems people with bipolar anf psychotic llnesses, well it seems just not worth it to pay attention to these common life altering side effects. Do you agree that if say blood pressure medication caused someone's tongue to constantly hang out of their mouth, that this medication would be discontinued. If this was a side effect of any other medication for "physical' disorders, people wouldn't be told oh well...keep taking the pills that make you drool. Hard stuff for us. Esp to be disregarded. Thanks.
This was SO helpful!! I recently got diagnosed bipolar after thinking for the last 10 years I had unipolar depression and gone through about 5 different meds not including the very expensive Ketamine treatments. I was prescribed lamotrigine and wow what a difference!
I was diagnosed with depression at age 9. Anxiety was added when I was 20. Then another psych said that it was bipolar and had me on mood stabilisers. But it wasn't working. No medication, no therapy, nothing was making it better. It was only at age 30( 3 years ago) my psych finally said "hey you have adhd let's put you on some ritallin" and suddenly everything made sense. As a woman i know its hard to diagnose so i don't blame those psychs. Depression was a symptom. I became depressed because I was being held back. I couldn't enjoy a movie that I once loved, and i had that added rejection thing that so many of us adhd peeps have. Mental health can sometimes be really tricky. Knowing what's wrong can sometimes be better than the medications. I'm only on the stimulants and antidepressants. I still take them but I also find my own ways of dealing with things and this has been the best 3 years of my life.
I can't thank you enough for this video. I'm type 2 dpp rapid cycling, I'm on quietapine and low dose fluoxetine. I've had people almost abuse me saying I'm wrong, my meds are wrong, there's no such thing as polarity and I shouldn't be on anti depression medication. I have spent a lot of time with my doc to get the right combo for me. This video makes me feel like I'm on the right path and I can better understand what's going on. I was miss diagnosed because of my dpp for so long no one believed me I was bipolar. Your videos are great sources of information. I'll be sharing this in the future when people don't believe me or doubt how bad it can be being manic and depressed at the same time. Again thank you, I feel like I'm on the right path and don't feel like I'm alone in what I'm feeling.
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Yay! My favorite time of the week. My mom is in town visiting and we are enjoying your videos very much. She loves how you explain everything clearly and in an organized fashion. Thank you for everything you do!
Dear Doctor .I truly appreciate how helpful your videos ..they are very informative yet easy to understand .. especially the ones about medications .would love some videos on how family members can deal with and get support if their child or partner suffers from bi polar or bpd..thank you ..
I was diagnosed as bipolar type 2 in 2019. Since I have lived alone for the last 40 years, it's hard for me to know whether I am predominantly one way or another. For that matter, it's hard for me to realize when I am having any kind of episode. It only becomes clear when I look back over the last few months, years, or over my whole life in retrospect. There are periods where my creativity gives me great fulfillment, but creates an insatiable need for more. Then, I'll decide that what I have produced is flat in quality, and not that important. I'll even feel foolish for having thought it would be so valued. Moreover, I'll go from being governed by a belief that I can influence the wider world to being focused on how others don't like me, and that I am not worth much. It's been difficult for me to find that healthy middle, where a person feels valuable for being able to do the essential simple things like relate to others well and enjoy things without overthinking them.
Great video as always. I particularly appreciated the shout out to those of us with newer diagnoses. It can be overwhelming and practical, concrete steps like "track moods/start a mood journal" is super helpful.
Whoa. This is exactly what I've been researching. You just answered all my questions in 10 mins. I've spent days looking This stuff up. Thank you Dr. Tracey
I always tell everyone how you’re the reason I was able to get a proper diagnosis after a 13 year battle of being mis-diagnosed. I’ve learned and continue to learn so much from your videos. Infinite gratitude to you Dr. Tracy Marks. You are literally a savior! ❤ 13 years later I’m finally in control of my bipolar super power. Here is one thing I would love to know. Why are folks with Bipolar disorder known to be artistic and creative??? What’s the science behind being bipolar and being a creative person/artist? When I was finally diagnosed my doctor said to me “you’re bipolar, you must be an artist or very creative” and she is right. I’m a full time performance artist. Turns out Jim Carey, Cher, Mariah Carey and so many other famous artist are also bipolar. What’s the connection?
Your videos make me feel seen as a bipolar person. Especially the video on hypersexuality. How you explain how mania feels and the crash afterward is so damn accurate
This is very insightful because i noticed for years that i have one phase more versus the other. Thank you for explaining this into further detail. i love your videos
Dr. Marks, I'm so happy I came across your videos! I'm three weeks in to a Bipolar II diagnosis, and have been researching to understand how could I miss this over the years, or did it simply come to light due to recent trauma in my life. I've had depression for a good part of my life and in the 20 months, the depression has increased tenfold. I'm about to start a Dr. Tracey Marks binge fest in your Bipolar Disorder playlist! 🙏🏼
The situation you described with the medications is what I’m experiencing, I’ve just been diagnosed with Bipolar Affective Disorder and it feels like I finally have a name for this beast I have to fight and wade off so often and have done for so long. I’ve suffered so long, only until I went private did I get the answers I need. The private psychiatrist listened to me, the nhs discarded me. I can now start treating bipolar rather than just depression, I have become manic due to my tablet changes/upping of doses and that’s what’s triggered it again I think. Bang on!
I am diagnosed with bipolar two. I am on two mood, stabilizers, one anti-depressive and two anti-anxiety meds. I find the video a little confusing, but also very helpful when I look at the overall picture. Thanks again for your excellent presentation to support people like myself.
I think doctors putting me on like ten different antidepressants for years until I was finally diagnosed with Cyclothymia and only recently with Bipolar has had a lot of input into mixed episodes. I’m now put on more meds that I’ve ever been on and I honestly regret all those years of being under diagnosed, but whatcha gonna do. I’d love to be able to get years between the episodes at the very least lol I’m high functioning - that’s good - but some areas of my life are honestly influenced too much by my moods. Thank you, Doc, for not only informative but also entertaining take on serious matters like mental health ❤
This was an awesome video! I've seen where doctors disregard what you report and keep you on what your taking. I know that you almost have to be your own advocate to push for something to change. I love that you're giving so much so that people are better educated.
I am almost 40 have bipolar 1 ..i also had cancer at age 26.....on 3 meds now doing well....i have a family ..kids....ive been married 20 yrs now ...ive had mania... depression..mixed type....i guess all the types...lol...doing well it does take support and lots of understanding from people around you....but most of all having grace and understanding for yourself......just wanted to let people know bipolar life doesn't have to be terrible... sometimes it feels terrible....but those moments i get through and then it's good again.... it's hard but then my life is amazing too... so just wanted to give people hope...its possible to life a good happy life and thank you doctor for these videos i wish my many doctors ive had were as thourogh and gracious as you are
The greatest challenge I have regarding clinical depression is: no matter how much counselling I get or ‘healing’ from trauma I go through.. or antidepressants I try to take.. will I always be depressed?
Doctor, many thanks for this explanation. I have searched for over 30 years for answers to my depression. A number of different psychiatrists prescribed anti depressants only. I would be fine for a little while and then the bottom would drop out. I'd be severely depressed. In hindsight I'm disappointed that none of the doctors diagnosed bipolar disorder given my symptoms. Heavy drinking was the answer for me. (The boogeyman can't get you if you pull the blanket over your head.) Then I stopped drinking and it all started again. I have recently found a doctor who has made the right diagnosis of bipolar 2. I'm doing much better. However, your explanation was much clearer than anything I've been told or read. Thank you for all that you do. If I had only found you long ago I might have lived a much happier and productive life.
Such great info! I watch your videos "religiously." One video I wish you would do is on how perimenopause, and all the wonders of womanhood, affects bipolar. It seems after a certain age, my episodes switched to rare mania/hypomania and longer, heavier depressions. Anything on that as well as improved ways to treat it would be *beyond* appreciated! Thanks for the great work you do :D
Yes please, Dr. Marks. Please do a more detailed video on Bipolar and how it relates to gonadal hormones, pmdd, rage, and Rapid-cycling. I know you've done a video on pmdd, but please please please make a deeper more detailed version.
Yes, perimenopause & bipolarity would be a great topic as I had my first manic (and only) episode at age 47 after being but on an SSRI for depression following a viral illness. WTH 🤨 Lamotrigine for going on 6 years now and been back to “normal”, whatever that means. 😂
I have hypomania and work as ER doctor.That job and dynamics of it are cure for my condition because trough that dynamic and energy consuming work I can release my exces of energy and it works miricals for me since I accept that position.I am always on feet always in motion and trough psychotherapy I learned how to be focused and of course in the moment and I honestly don't remember when I had that "come down" that get me to the bed and blank stare at ceeling moment after week of hypomanic episode.
Thank you so much for explaining this. I've always wondered why some other people with Bipolar 1 seemed to be manic more than me. When I'm manic, I'm really manic, with delusions, past hospitalization for mania, etc. I definitely have Bipolar 1 and was diagnosed with it 23 years ago this August. I've heard a lot people with Bipolar 2 are depressed most of the time and not Bipolar 1, but the majority of the time I'm in an episode, I'm in a depressive episode. My first episode was a manic episode, though. I take an antidepressant, two mood stabilizers, an antipsychotic, and another antipsychotic PRN. I get psychosis, mostly delusions and sometimes visual hallucinations, in both manic and depressed episodes, and I'm prone to mixed episodes as well. I'm usually in an episode, usually a depressed episode. I've had two friends and a relative who have Bipolar 1 as well but they all seemed manic way more than me. Instestingly, they were all men. You might have mentioned something about it and I didn't catch it, but it often seems like men are manic more often than depressed, just by casual observance.
This video made everything so much sense! Thank you so much! I will talk about this with my doctor. I hope she gets me off antidepresants cause my manic episode was bad and now I'm back in even worse depressive state.
I had Latuda prescribed to me for about 8 months back around 2018 and it did not do me well at all. I have Bilopar type 2 with DPP, with just a slight amount of psychosis especially when in the depression phase, and Latuda basically made me psychotic. My thinking patterns were all warped and I became very rigid and very anxious and panicky when things didn't go as planned, I had to be in bed from 10 pm to 10 am whether I was sleepy or not and I was super uncomfortable if it was impossible for me to be in bed at those hours. I know someone else who had a similar experience with Latuda. Just wanted to share my experience. Now I'm on quetiapine and I'm waiting to get a psychiatrist to call me and have regular appointments. Your videos are very helpful and give me words to describe what I've been going through for more than 10 years. Thank you so much!
Dr. Marks, with the loneliness epidemic especially in Senors, I would love to see you do a video on this subject and the psychedelic treatment for depression and other mood disorders. Thank you.
Great video.......... can you talk more about trauma and how it could imitate a mood disorder? I'm breaking down my trauma and my therapist has suggested that my manic episodes could be my trauma response.
Agreed! In my case it was a bit of column A and column B! My symptoms were way worse before my CPTSD was diagnosed/treated, and now it's mostly about riding the natural creative highs and lows associated with having the classical "artistic personality" neurology, and accepting my limitations (talking to you, hypomanic self!)
hi dr tracey! i love your videos. i was diagnosed with bipolar disorder 2 months ago and i got prescribed with lamictal. unfortunately i got stevens-johnson syndrome. i still havent gone to my psychiatrist for an alternative to my meds bc im still too cautious and im still recovering. just wanted to share this and maybe send some awareness about sjs. since i havent gotten any alternative meds for my mental health, your videos help me understand myself a but more. thank you, dr tracey
Thank you so much Dr. Marks! I appreciate you so much! My niece has the disorder (B1) and sometimes I fear for her. I love her so much. I am trying to find out as much as I can an pass some of it on to her sometimes as well.
MPP ftw (the anxiety and irritability suck when they appear, but I'll still take it over soul-crushing depression). I take Vraylar and it saved my life. It does wonders for ALL bipolar symptoms
Originally diagnosed bipolar 1 w rapid cycling /severe w/psychosis. in the comorbidies that come along for the ride..nevermind the severe depression, ptsd,
Before I saw a psych I was given Prozac by my primary. Caused the worst depressive episode I've ever had. Almost lost my job because I was so depressed I couldn't move. I just quit taking it. Saw a psychiatrist and they said that was the most dangerous thing a doctor could do because I have BIPOLAR 1!!! I have equal manic and depressive episodes. It was always one extreme to another. Never had stability. Now I'm 2.5 years into treatment and I feel better.
I grew up in the Jehovah Witness cult. Children growing up in this cult are told they deserve to die because someone ate fruit 6000 years ago. There is a lot of shame and guilt. My parents would always say that «no matter what you do its not good enough, you deserve to die, mamma and daddy also deserve to die». We used to get weekly beatings at the kingdom hall for disipline. Still the organisation say that parents should teach the children not to love themselfes. My experience is that most children that grow up in high controll groups like LDS, JW and other cults are suffering from C PTSD. I often say that most cult children suffer from C PTSD and I think I am correct about this. I know I am not able to diagnose a group in general, but since all cult a variables of the BITE model I feel quite certain that it is the case. What would you recomend us cult children to look out for? Growing up with any religion following the BITE modell is like growing up in a village run by a psykopath were EVERYBODY are his flying monkeys and you will only be loved when you perform for the group. Any advise?
It is only in recent years that I've become aware that I have bipolar 2. Currently, I am in a depressive cycle, and have been for 3 years, and 2 months. With age, the depressive cycles have become longer. I saw a psychiatrist, but she was not convinced that I have bipolar 2, based on my symptoms. However, the suddeness of the onset of depression and anxiety one day (literally) at the age of 21, did make it sound like a possibility to her. She put me on lithium, but I felt absolutely awful on it (physically ill). The experience put me off treatment, and currently I'm just on an anti-depressant. It truly does nothing for me, and I'm currently weaning myself off them 75mg at a time. (I was on 300mg.) When I started on this particular anti-depressant, it caused me to cycle, and I experienced the most blissful, hypo-manic 5 months. That is until a stressful event caused me to cycle back just over 3 years ago, and here I still am. When I'm hypo-manic, I image that's how "normal" people feel every day. I have energy, can go to gym, don't have cravings, so can do without sugar. I lose weight, all of which I regain in the depressive cycle. *Sigh* I'm at a loss as to how to proceed, really, because trying another mood stabiliser doesn't fill me with excitement.
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I got Bipolar 1. Before receiving a proper diagnosis i was prescribed nine or ten different antidepressants. It really felt like hell and they made me worse. Bipolar takes a long while to diagnose. When i finally got diagnosed with Bipolar 1, and medicated with Lithium and Quetipine, i began my road to recovery. After a couple of weeks i felt at least half way to "getting my life back". Few years later (and becoming unwell again) and attending a Bipolar support group, i have learned to recognize the earliest signs of possibility of an episode. Mine starts with excitement and energy (mania), increasing. It is quite evident for those around! Would experience psychosis after that. Would not be sleeping much. My physical health would have declined. Finally deep depression. Its bad, but i have learned to nip an episode in the but by watching for early symptoms. I ask for medical help by way of extra medication. It can be done. We cannot really get Bipolar cured, but it can certainly be managed. I now take just two mental health medications. And i live a healthy, balanced life. The main thing we can do is to take our meds as prescribed. Good health to you!
I once had a drug induced(drink spiked with Benzodiazopines) psychosis and the mania presented as Bipolar disorder even the nude in public and believing I was the anti-christ I was on respidone, quitaipine, Lithium,epilim, methylphenidate (later on when I was being withdrawn of the meds), smaller does of Benzodiasopines (it was decreased each visit as an out patient). Was prohibited (still am today) taking caffeine, alcohol and chocolate. But I don't take the meds anymore it's been 3 yrs with no episodes, I am truly greatful, your profession is very important I am now 2 subjects shy of a law degree.
That makes so much sense I was depressed first then I experienced hypo sexual behaviour and I forgot about it .then went back into depression again and back to hypo sexual behaviour again. I'm stable now I'm scared that I will behave like before it was considered shameful and disgusting by the community
I am depression predominant and was treated with Carbamazepine. It did nothing. I found out anecdotally from fellow patients that Lamotrigine helped with their depressive bipolar and my accommodating psychiatrist agreed to give it a try. I was in remission a month later and it gave me my life back, so it worries me that the FDA have made this decision as I know how well it can work.
I definitely have to watch out more for mania than depression. Depression is fairly common, but it can't get worse or more frequent like Mania can depending on my lifestyle choices.
I relate with this video a lot. For a while I never thought I had bi polar because I would never get manic but if I took adderal or anti depressants without mood stabilizers I would always get manic. Turned out after trying med after med after med lamotrogine has been a god send for treating my depressive bi polar. Best med I’ve taken for bi polar with least amount of side effects.
I spend a lot more time in depression than mania. And getting my meds right took over a year and a lot of trial and error. I also always have worse depression in the winter months. So that complicates things. I also have ADHD and an axiety disorder. So that's fun. It took quite a while to get my med combo to treat everything. I'm finally not depressed. My ADHD is treated, so I can focus on life, and my anxiety is under control. I'm on antipsychotics, stimulant ADHD meds, and 2 different antidepressants that work a bit different to eachother. Latuda has been the best med for my bipolar symptoms so far. And it calmed my anxiety a bunch. I finally feel better without feeling like I want to crawl out of my own skin. I haven't been getting those horrible mixed episodes. I finally feel human again. My depressive episodes are much shorter and much more mild. And I haven't experienced the delusions or auditory hallucinations that come with bad manic episodes. I haven't experienced more than mild hypomania rarely for a good long time. I'd say that I get mild ups and downs now. And I feel like I can actually live my life.
I was diagnosed with treatment resistant depression for 2 decades, then after a psychiatric ward admission I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder. Now considered to be rapid cycling. I was on antidepressants on & off for years. Now psychiatrists say I need to avoid antidepressants.
If possible please make a video on how agitated unipolar mejor depression(where persistent feeling of restlessness and a sence of intense inner tension are the core symptoms) and unipolar mdd with mix features can be diagnosed separately and what similarities they share ??
Thank you for your video! What is your opinion on being on bipolar meds during pregnancy? I've been stable for years. On low dose lamotrigine and valporate. What is your general expert opinion on stopping psych meds during pregnancy and restarting them after breastfeeding? (All in accordance with one's psychiatrist of course.)
For the last two years, I have taken 300-350 mg quetiapine and 20 mg vortioxetine every night, and it is the best combination ever. If I get too "high", I take 25-100 mg extra quetiapine + sleeping and relaxing medicine, and it works every time. I have had bipolar 1 for decades, starting out with a beautiful epiphany as a teenager. Many depressions, much suffering, lots of different kinds of medicine, but I got an education and a family too and was working part time. I guess the danger of trigging hypomania, mania, mixed state or rapid cycling is little, if you take antipsychotics too. I do get high quite often, it feels wonderful, and I know what is happening to me. I know I MUST SLEEP!!! I always stay at home alone, when I am high, dance a couple of hours and do all I can to sleep. It works every time, so I wake up next day quite "normal". I have these overwhelming intense, happy, sensual experiences, which actually enriche my life. I hope the same for all of you. Bipolar depression is hard to treat, but vortioxetine has helped me and two other persons, I know, with bipolar disorder.
Hi Dr Tracy! Thank you for your work - it empowers me truly. My name is Sean. Could you please consider doing a video on how mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder, medication such as epilim or resperidal have a connection to memory and cognitive decline? I am a university student and it seems that ever since I was on my medication my attention skills, intelligence and memory have sunk. I forget things within seconds. I have shortness of attention and it feels as if there are holes in my thinking. Are there any solutions for these in terms of my mental condition and medication? I would really appreciate it, thank you!
This information scares me to death, because 1 out of 10 psychiatrists diagnosed me with bipolar disorder in the past. Later it was debunked, but I feel like I'm always holding my breath thinking ''what if he were right / what if become bipolar?''
i don’t have 2x the amount of depressive episodes but my depressive episodes do last much longer than hypomanic or mixed states. my cycle seems to be hypomania for around 2 weeks then depression for 2 months then hypomanic again. i experienced on and off depressive episodes for about a year and a half before my first hypomanic. i haven’t had a “stable” (nor depressed or manic) episode since my first hypomanic either, the closest i have is periods where my depression becomes mild before hypomania . i do consider myself depression predominant though as my depression is far more debilitating than my hypomania, i always say the problem with hypomania isn’t how i feel it’s what i do. i may not be technically “depression predominant” but it definitely is the part that impacts my life the most. thinking about that would any mixed episodes (i have only had one so far) be categorised as time towards mania and/or depression? or completely separate? plus is it possible to experience true mania only when in a mixed state, with hypomania being my pure “high”? and would this change my diagnosis to bipolar 1? i ask this as my psychiatrist has recently noted my mixed episode as “psychotic mixed mania” not “psychotic mixed hypomania”, she’s professional with labels always describing my episodes as hypomania, so this took me by surprise. is this just standard practise? i always thought people with bipolar 1 were more mania predominant whereas bipolar 2 depression predominant. i’m waiting for her report but this will take a few weeks and i’m just really impatient, i want to know what’s going on with me😂
last year i was diagnosd with bipolar after having what seemed to be a manic episode. well, it was full-blown mania, with psychotic symptoms as well. the thing is that, i'm a post-op trans woman, and i had gone through a period where my estrogen intake wasn't regular. i've read some articles that say estrogen has an antipsychotic effect, and that women in menopause and after giving birth may experience bipolar manic and depressive episodes when the estrogen drops suddenly. i wonder if my manic episode was caused by fluctuations in my estrogen levels, and if my hormone therapy can prevent, or cause, manic psychosis to occur in the future.
The depression I live with , moves between …mostly being flat . My reflective response to how are you ,is poor to average . Sadly that is my hi-point , from there most of the time …I’ll go down to miserable no energy no motivation no interest . Sleeping a-lot .💔 I would love to good sometimes , but that is rare … and doesn’t happen for more than an hour . And it only happens once in a few months .
I need serious help as I'm getting inconsistent talks between multiple psychiatrist throughtout on base(military) clinic, inpatient from ER and 28. Day inpatient. A couple have considered bipolar II and one has actually diagnosed me. But my last inpatient wrote : " depressive disorder unspecified r/o bipolar disorder r/o personality disorder unspecified. I don't understand the whole rule out thing and it's upsetting me very much. Thank you for reading. Was recently taken off effexor 225 and lamictal increase to 400 after a hypomanic episode during inpatient
I was diagnosed with BD but my therapist doesn't seem to agree with the diagnosis because he hasn't seen any symptoms of hypomania so I didn't had it at all or I had it but didn't tell him (says him). Apparently every psychiatrist or therapist I ever had doesn't know a thing, they just expect me to diagnose myself and make a treatment for me alone while paying them. My memory is like crap and I can't figure if I'm hypomanic or just happy or just with anxiety or just anger, like, I know some things are not normal but when I tell people they say "everyone's like this". I'm not normal enough to be considered normal but I'm not "crazy" enough to have a label that I can use to find the best treatment for me. I can't function but I'm alive and not psychotic so I guess there isn't anything wrong with me? Guess it's super normal to treat a depression that goes away for a couple of days or maybe months and then return and then they increase the meds and it gets better but then it returns again and then you get 3 good days, 1 week existing with low energy and 3 days super depressed and it keeps circling back and it's almost previsible. I'm really beginning to hate medical professionals!!!
The last time I took an antidepressant it elevated me too much until I was in quite a surreal state, but this only lasted about ten days and I crashed down really badly (still taking the antidepressant) and got more and more ill until someone who knew what was going on said "it's those pills!" I stopped taking them and the depression evaporated. In other words the antidepressant made things a LOT worse, and it wasn't a mixed state it was just depression. And it wasn't a case of taking pills and getting worse before I got better. I got worse and worse until I stopped the pills. Nasty!!
Hi Tracey, in your ADHD playlist, could you please make a video that addresses problems on managing time WITH your mind being distracted? what can the person do? Thank you so much in advance!
Thank you for the video! I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I have a question for you. I am diagnosed with bipolar type 2 and sometimes I question my diagnosis and feel like going off of my medication. My doctor and therapist have advised me not to do so while being very understanding of my feelings. Based of what they said, if I go off of my meds there is a risk that the episodes I was experiencing could be even worse. I wanted to know why that is. If I try going off my meds at some point, does this mean my episodes will be more severe for some reason? Is it because bipolar disorder gets worse with age or is it just that when you go off of meds it can trigger an episode? Thank you for taking the time to read this and for making all of your amazing content. You've really helped me.
Can bipolar be rapid cycling? I mean can you have mania for example 2 days then suddenly depression for example 3 days, then mania for few days, then depression for few days?
I believe i am manic predominant but was only recently diagnosed with bipolar this year. Looking back on periods of my life its very obvious to me when i was having manic episodes but it doesnt register with me at the time that I'm manic. I can definitely tell when i am having a depressive episode. My doctor put me on Latuda and i have felt so numb ever since. I think my brain registers the lack of mania or hypomania as depression because that's what I'm used to.
Lamotrogine put me in my first physcotic episode and caused tartive dyskenisia. That medicine litterally almost killed me. I got off of it ofcourse with help from my doctor and now on seroquil and doing great! Always pay attention to side effects. My doctor has been through hell with me getting my symptoms straight
thanks for your info on bipolar. do you have any info why we attracts people with narrcist behavior ? I'm so tired to always get in that situasjon. I have bipolar and it is not that is hard but relationships. sorry for writing errors
Hi Dr. Tracey! Three of my sisters have mental disorders. One was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of twelve. In their 30's, the other two sisters were diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Some doctors claim they suffer from bipolar disorder, while others claim they suffer from schizophrenia. Could you please make a video showing the difference between the symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder? Is it possible to have both mental disorders at the same time?
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I'm depressive predominant. I've been on lithium for about 10 years, but since my diagnosis changed from bipolar disorder to schizoaffective disorder, I'm also on latuda. I also take quetiapine to help me sleep. It took some time to get my meds right, but now I've been stable since October, which is great. 😀
im so happy youve been better lately! we deserve peace.
i used to take quetiapine. best sleep of my life. i stopped cuz my tolerance.. tolerated.. 😂
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I envy you.
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Depression predominant. I started SSRI's in High School which woke up the mania. When Prozac didn't work and Zoloft made me disassociate and believe I could communicate directly with nature, my PCP should not have put me on Effexor. Ended up dropping out of college because my mixed episode got so bad that I was making horrendous decisions, getting high instead of doing work, and I was suicidal 24/7. There are totally, 100% signs that a child is going to become bipolar later in life, and an inventory should be taken before they're put on SSRI's in the first place. I was originally Bipolar 2, and I would've never experienced full mania if it weren't for antidepressants.
i was treated for depression with anti-depressants the last couple decades and i never felt good . my doctor kept switching doses and would add other drugs to help with anxiety. it made it worse. Isuicidal at one point. i medicated with whatever substance i could get my hands until i was a full fledge daily addict . i checked myself into rehab after a failed suicide attempt. thankfully my wife pushed me to go for a longer concurrent program and i was able to get a proper bi pilar 2 diagnoses. i am now 4 months clean and being treated for bi polar 2 with a mood stabilizer. i have never felt better , things are now healing with my kids and wife . i realize now this will be a life long battle. my thoughts are with everyone here struggling. i hope you find peace . ❤
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I wish I’ve had a doctor as good as you. I sent my therapist your video on BPD and she was very impressed, and she specializes in BPD at Yale. Your videos are so informative Thank you, you can’t imagine how much you are helping me in my walk with bipolar and BPD and PTSD. ( luckily me, I have it all).
Me too! And ADHD to boot! LOL. The very best of luck on your journey!
Sinead O'Connor has borderline personality disorder, bipolar disorder and complex PTSD. She wrote a really good autobiography a couple of years ago, and although it's not a medical or psychiatric memoir as such, it's still a really good book.
@@ZadenZane thanks for the book recommendation. I’ll have to check that out
You guys do know BPD stands for borderline personality disorder, right?
Yes I do know that BPD is borderline. Quite aware. I have been diagnosed with it, and I spent 9 and a half months in Yale out patient hospital doing DBT. So yeah, I’m quite aware
I've been on Lamotrigine for years with great success. Having been on many antipsychotics over the years, I find the disregard for permanent TD symptoms to be way underappreciated when when doctors prescribe Abilify etcetera. It doesn't really matter if you're under control if you can't leave the house because you're drooling. I also have friends with bipolar disorder who are on Seroquel, are experiencing TD side effects and their doctor has them remain on Seroquel I don't understand why doctors doesn't don't understand the importance and the disruption of life when you have tardive dyskinesia. In fact many doctors don't tell don't even tell their patients that Abilify can cause TD. I know a lot of people with bipolar disorder and very few are educated that the medications they are on can cause lifelong dyskinesia.
As somebody who's developed TD after being on seroquel and Risperdal, it makes me really angry that there was very little attention paid to the fact that I was beginning symptoms of TD. And least of all that these types of medications are not discontinued when this serious side effect begins.
I'd love for you to do a video on tardive dyskinesia and how disruptive towards life it can be. I'd almost rather be depressed then unable to leave the house because I'm drooling constantly. And friends who have started lip smacking or their tongue hanging out of their mouth. It's just awful that these things are disregarded as it seems people with bipolar anf psychotic llnesses, well it seems just not worth it to pay attention to these common life altering side effects.
Do you agree that if say blood pressure medication caused someone's tongue to constantly hang out of their mouth, that this medication would be discontinued. If this was a side effect of any other medication for "physical' disorders, people wouldn't be told oh well...keep taking the pills that make you drool. Hard stuff for us. Esp to be disregarded. Thanks.
Amazing comment 👏🏻 Finally somebody speaks the truth about the horrible hooorrible side effects of the meds bipolar people take.
This was SO helpful!! I recently got diagnosed bipolar after thinking for the last 10 years I had unipolar depression and gone through about 5 different meds not including the very expensive Ketamine treatments. I was prescribed lamotrigine and wow what a difference!
I was diagnosed with depression at age 9. Anxiety was added when I was 20. Then another psych said that it was bipolar and had me on mood stabilisers. But it wasn't working. No medication, no therapy, nothing was making it better. It was only at age 30( 3 years ago) my psych finally said "hey you have adhd let's put you on some ritallin" and suddenly everything made sense. As a woman i know its hard to diagnose so i don't blame those psychs. Depression was a symptom. I became depressed because I was being held back. I couldn't enjoy a movie that I once loved, and i had that added rejection thing that so many of us adhd peeps have. Mental health can sometimes be really tricky. Knowing what's wrong can sometimes be better than the medications. I'm only on the stimulants and antidepressants. I still take them but I also find my own ways of dealing with things and this has been the best 3 years of my life.
I can't thank you enough for this video. I'm type 2 dpp rapid cycling, I'm on quietapine and low dose fluoxetine. I've had people almost abuse me saying I'm wrong, my meds are wrong, there's no such thing as polarity and I shouldn't be on anti depression medication.
I have spent a lot of time with my doc to get the right combo for me. This video makes me feel like I'm on the right path and I can better understand what's going on. I was miss diagnosed because of my dpp for so long no one believed me I was bipolar. Your videos are great sources of information. I'll be sharing this in the future when people don't believe me or doubt how bad it can be being manic and depressed at the same time.
Again thank you, I feel like I'm on the right path and don't feel like I'm alone in what I'm feeling.
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Yay! My favorite time of the week. My mom is in town visiting and we are enjoying your videos very much. She loves how you explain everything clearly and in an organized fashion. Thank you for everything you do!
Favorite time of the week really? Wow. I’m honored. Say hi to mom for me. ❤️
Dear Doctor .I truly appreciate how helpful your videos ..they are very informative yet easy to understand .. especially the ones about medications .would love some videos on how family members can deal with and get support if their child or partner suffers from bi polar or bpd..thank you ..
@@DrTraceyMarks I certainly will!
You’re the only one talking about this in the TH-cam world. Thank you
I was diagnosed as bipolar type 2 in 2019. Since I have lived alone for the last 40 years, it's hard for me to know whether I am predominantly one way or another. For that matter, it's hard for me to realize when I am having any kind of episode. It only becomes clear when I look back over the last few months, years, or over my whole life in retrospect.
There are periods where my creativity gives me great fulfillment, but creates an insatiable need for more. Then, I'll decide that what I have produced is flat in quality, and not that important. I'll even feel foolish for having thought it would be so valued.
Moreover, I'll go from being governed by a belief that I can influence the wider world to being focused on how others don't like me, and that I am not worth much. It's been difficult for me to find that healthy middle, where a person feels valuable for being able to do the essential simple things like relate to others well and enjoy things without overthinking them.
So much of this was relatable I hope it gets better for you & I both stay strong
@@ashakiscott Thank you. And my best wishes. Stay strong as well!
Great video as always. I particularly appreciated the shout out to those of us with newer diagnoses. It can be overwhelming and practical, concrete steps like "track moods/start a mood journal" is super helpful.
Whoa. This is exactly what I've been researching. You just answered all my questions in 10 mins. I've spent days looking This stuff up.
Thank you Dr. Tracey
Wow what a coincidence! I'm glad this answered your questions 😀
I always tell everyone how you’re the reason I was able to get a proper diagnosis after a 13 year battle of being mis-diagnosed. I’ve learned and continue to learn so much from your videos. Infinite gratitude to you Dr. Tracy Marks. You are literally a savior! ❤ 13 years later I’m finally in control of my bipolar super power. Here is one thing I would love to know. Why are folks with Bipolar disorder known to be artistic and creative??? What’s the science behind being bipolar and being a creative person/artist? When I was finally diagnosed my doctor said to me “you’re bipolar, you must be an artist or very creative” and she is right. I’m a full time performance artist. Turns out Jim Carey, Cher, Mariah Carey and so many other famous artist are also bipolar. What’s the connection?
Your videos make me feel seen as a bipolar person. Especially the video on hypersexuality. How you explain how mania feels and the crash afterward is so damn accurate
This is very insightful because i noticed for years that i have one phase more versus the other. Thank you for explaining this into further detail. i love your videos
Dr. Marks, I'm so happy I came across your videos! I'm three weeks in to a Bipolar II diagnosis, and have been researching to understand how could I miss this over the years, or did it simply come to light due to recent trauma in my life. I've had depression for a good part of my life and in the 20 months, the depression has increased tenfold.
I'm about to start a Dr. Tracey Marks binge fest in your Bipolar Disorder playlist! 🙏🏼
The situation you described with the medications is what I’m experiencing, I’ve just been diagnosed with Bipolar Affective Disorder and it feels like I finally have a name for this beast I have to fight and wade off so often and have done for so long. I’ve suffered so long, only until I went private did I get the answers I need. The private psychiatrist listened to me, the nhs discarded me.
I can now start treating bipolar rather than just depression, I have become manic due to my tablet changes/upping of doses and that’s what’s triggered it again I think. Bang on!
I am diagnosed with bipolar two. I am on two mood, stabilizers, one anti-depressive and two anti-anxiety meds.
I find the video a little confusing, but also very helpful when I look at the overall picture.
Thanks again for your excellent presentation to support people like myself.
I think doctors putting me on like ten different antidepressants for years until I was finally diagnosed with Cyclothymia and only recently with Bipolar has had a lot of input into mixed episodes. I’m now put on more meds that I’ve ever been on and I honestly regret all those years of being under diagnosed, but whatcha gonna do. I’d love to be able to get years between the episodes at the very least lol I’m high functioning - that’s good - but some areas of my life are honestly influenced too much by my moods. Thank you, Doc, for not only informative but also entertaining take on serious matters like mental health ❤
You're a wealth of information and knowledge, Doc! Keep'em coming !
This was an awesome video! I've seen where doctors disregard what you report and keep you on what your taking. I know that you almost have to be your own advocate to push for something to change. I love that you're giving so much so that people are better educated.
I am almost 40 have bipolar 1 ..i also had cancer at age 26.....on 3 meds now doing well....i have a family ..kids....ive been married 20 yrs now ...ive had mania... depression..mixed type....i guess all the types...lol...doing well it does take support and lots of understanding from people around you....but most of all having grace and understanding for yourself......just wanted to let people know bipolar life doesn't have to be terrible... sometimes it feels terrible....but those moments i get through and then it's good again.... it's hard but then my life is amazing too... so just wanted to give people hope...its possible to life a good happy life and thank you doctor for these videos i wish my many doctors ive had were as thourogh and gracious as you are
The greatest challenge I have regarding clinical depression is: no matter how much counselling I get or ‘healing’ from trauma I go through.. or antidepressants I try to take.. will I always be depressed?
Doctor, many thanks for this explanation. I have searched for over 30 years for answers to my depression. A number of different psychiatrists prescribed anti depressants only. I would be fine for a little while and then the bottom would drop out. I'd be severely depressed. In hindsight I'm disappointed that none of the doctors diagnosed bipolar disorder given my symptoms. Heavy drinking was the answer for me. (The boogeyman can't get you if you pull the blanket over your head.) Then I stopped drinking and it all started again. I have recently found a doctor who has made the right diagnosis of bipolar 2. I'm doing much better. However, your explanation was much clearer than anything I've been told or read. Thank you for all that you do. If I had only found you long ago I might have lived a much happier and productive life.
Such great info! I watch your videos "religiously." One video I wish you would do is on how perimenopause, and all the wonders of womanhood, affects bipolar. It seems after a certain age, my episodes switched to rare mania/hypomania and longer, heavier depressions. Anything on that as well as improved ways to treat it would be *beyond* appreciated! Thanks for the great work you do :D
Yes please, Dr. Marks. Please do a more detailed video on Bipolar and how it relates to gonadal hormones, pmdd, rage, and Rapid-cycling. I know you've done a video on pmdd, but please please please make a deeper more detailed version.
Yes, perimenopause & bipolarity would be a great topic as I had my first manic (and only) episode at age 47 after being but on an SSRI for depression following a viral illness. WTH 🤨 Lamotrigine for going on 6 years now and been back to “normal”, whatever that means. 😂
@@libsteerp7692 Whoa, yeah, that is interesting! So many of us have thyroid issues too. Hormone soup
I have hypomania and work as ER doctor.That job and dynamics of it are cure for my condition because trough that dynamic and energy consuming work I can release my exces of energy and it works miricals for me since I accept that position.I am always on feet always in motion and trough psychotherapy I learned how to be focused and of course in the moment and I honestly don't remember when I had that "come down" that get me to the bed and blank stare at ceeling moment after week of hypomanic episode.
Thanks for the brilliant explanation
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Thank you so much for explaining this. I've always wondered why some other people with Bipolar 1 seemed to be manic more than me. When I'm manic, I'm really manic, with delusions, past hospitalization for mania, etc. I definitely have Bipolar 1 and was diagnosed with it 23 years ago this August. I've heard a lot people with Bipolar 2 are depressed most of the time and not Bipolar 1, but the majority of the time I'm in an episode, I'm in a depressive episode. My first episode was a manic episode, though. I take an antidepressant, two mood stabilizers, an antipsychotic, and another antipsychotic PRN. I get psychosis, mostly delusions and sometimes visual hallucinations, in both manic and depressed episodes, and I'm prone to mixed episodes as well. I'm usually in an episode, usually a depressed episode.
I've had two friends and a relative who have Bipolar 1 as well but they all seemed manic way more than me. Instestingly, they were all men. You might have mentioned something about it and I didn't catch it, but it often seems like men are manic more often than depressed, just by casual observance.
Hi, Dr. Tracey. Could you possibly do a video that explains the connection between mental disorders and cognitive decline?
I find your bipolar-based videos so helpful, thank you so much.
Lamotrigin worked well in spacing my depressive episodes but when they came is was severe, Lithium really lifted me out of severe depression.
This video made everything so much sense! Thank you so much! I will talk about this with my doctor. I hope she gets me off antidepresants cause my manic episode was bad and now I'm back in even worse depressive state.
I had Latuda prescribed to me for about 8 months back around 2018 and it did not do me well at all. I have Bilopar type 2 with DPP, with just a slight amount of psychosis especially when in the depression phase, and Latuda basically made me psychotic. My thinking patterns were all warped and I became very rigid and very anxious and panicky when things didn't go as planned, I had to be in bed from 10 pm to 10 am whether I was sleepy or not and I was super uncomfortable if it was impossible for me to be in bed at those hours. I know someone else who had a similar experience with Latuda. Just wanted to share my experience.
Now I'm on quetiapine and I'm waiting to get a psychiatrist to call me and have regular appointments.
Your videos are very helpful and give me words to describe what I've been going through for more than 10 years. Thank you so much!
Dr. Marks, with the loneliness epidemic especially in Senors, I would love to see you do a video on this subject and the psychedelic treatment for depression and other mood disorders. Thank you.
Great video.......... can you talk more about trauma and how it could imitate a mood disorder? I'm breaking down my trauma and my therapist has suggested that my manic episodes could be my trauma response.
Agreed! In my case it was a bit of column A and column B! My symptoms were way worse before my CPTSD was diagnosed/treated, and now it's mostly about riding the natural creative highs and lows associated with having the classical "artistic personality" neurology, and accepting my limitations (talking to you, hypomanic self!)
Excellent question
Thank you Doctor for your valuable information. God bless you 👍🏻👨⚕️
You’re welcome! ❤️
hi dr tracey! i love your videos. i was diagnosed with bipolar disorder 2 months ago and i got prescribed with lamictal. unfortunately i got stevens-johnson syndrome. i still havent gone to my psychiatrist for an alternative to my meds bc im still too cautious and im still recovering. just wanted to share this and maybe send some awareness about sjs. since i havent gotten any alternative meds for my mental health, your videos help me understand myself a but more. thank you, dr tracey
Thank you so much Dr. Marks! I appreciate you so much! My niece has the disorder (B1) and sometimes I fear for her. I love her so much. I am trying to find out as much as I can an pass some of it on to her sometimes as well.
MPP ftw (the anxiety and irritability suck when they appear, but I'll still take it over soul-crushing depression). I take Vraylar and it saved my life. It does wonders for ALL bipolar symptoms
This is incredibly helpful content and I thank you for your videos!
Great advice! Thanks!
Originally diagnosed bipolar 1 w rapid cycling /severe w/psychosis. in the comorbidies that come along for the ride..nevermind the severe depression, ptsd,
Thank you for all your videos!!
Very informative and helpful
This explains my diagnosis so much. I have yet to treat my bipolar 2 because the medications didn’t work.
Before I saw a psych I was given Prozac by my primary. Caused the worst depressive episode I've ever had. Almost lost my job because I was so depressed I couldn't move. I just quit taking it. Saw a psychiatrist and they said that was the most dangerous thing a doctor could do because I have BIPOLAR 1!!! I have equal manic and depressive episodes. It was always one extreme to another. Never had stability. Now I'm 2.5 years into treatment and I feel better.
What med do you take now?
wow, thanks dr. Tracey!
I think i was stuck in mania about five years. My body was so exhausted and broke down by the time it was over
I grew up in the Jehovah Witness cult. Children growing up in this cult are told they deserve to die because someone ate fruit 6000 years ago. There is a lot of shame and guilt. My parents would always say that «no matter what you do its not good enough, you deserve to die, mamma and daddy also deserve to die». We used to get weekly beatings at the kingdom hall for disipline. Still the organisation say that parents should teach the children not to love themselfes. My experience is that most children that grow up in high controll groups like LDS, JW and other cults are suffering from C PTSD. I often say that most cult children suffer from C PTSD and I think I am correct about this. I know I am not able to diagnose a group in general, but since all cult a variables of the BITE model I feel quite certain that it is the case. What would you recomend us cult children to look out for? Growing up with any religion following the BITE modell is like growing up in a village run by a psykopath were EVERYBODY are his flying monkeys and you will only be loved when you perform for the group. Any advise?
I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home and I can identify with your story. I am sorry you had to go through that. 😢
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It is only in recent years that I've become aware that I have bipolar 2. Currently, I am in a depressive cycle, and have been for 3 years, and 2 months. With age, the depressive cycles have become longer. I saw a psychiatrist, but she was not convinced that I have bipolar 2, based on my symptoms. However, the suddeness of the onset of depression and anxiety one day (literally) at the age of 21, did make it sound like a possibility to her. She put me on lithium, but I felt absolutely awful on it (physically ill). The experience put me off treatment, and currently I'm just on an anti-depressant. It truly does nothing for me, and I'm currently weaning myself off them 75mg at a time. (I was on 300mg.) When I started on this particular anti-depressant, it caused me to cycle, and I experienced the most blissful, hypo-manic 5 months. That is until a stressful event caused me to cycle back just over 3 years ago, and here I still am. When I'm hypo-manic, I image that's how "normal" people feel every day. I have energy, can go to gym, don't have cravings, so can do without sugar. I lose weight, all of which I regain in the depressive cycle. *Sigh* I'm at a loss as to how to proceed, really, because trying another mood stabiliser doesn't fill me with excitement.
Have you heard about Lamictal? Lot’s of people like and benefit it?
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I appreciate you 🙏
Thanks a lot Connie! 😊
I got Bipolar 1. Before receiving a proper diagnosis i was prescribed nine or ten different antidepressants. It really felt like hell and they made me worse. Bipolar takes a long while to diagnose. When i finally got diagnosed with Bipolar 1, and medicated with Lithium and Quetipine, i began my road to recovery. After a couple of weeks i felt at least half way to "getting my life back". Few years later (and becoming unwell again) and attending a Bipolar support group, i have learned to recognize the earliest signs of possibility of an episode. Mine starts with excitement and energy (mania), increasing. It is quite evident for those around! Would experience psychosis after that. Would not be sleeping much. My physical health would have declined. Finally deep depression. Its bad, but i have learned to nip an episode in the but by watching for early symptoms. I ask for medical help by way of extra medication. It can be done. We cannot really get Bipolar cured, but it can certainly be managed. I now take just two mental health medications. And i live a healthy, balanced life. The main thing we can do is to take our meds as prescribed. Good health to you!
Love your videos, so much great information!
I once had a drug induced(drink spiked with Benzodiazopines) psychosis and the mania presented as Bipolar disorder even the nude in public and believing I was the anti-christ I was on respidone, quitaipine, Lithium,epilim, methylphenidate (later on when I was being withdrawn of the meds), smaller does of Benzodiasopines (it was decreased each visit as an out patient). Was prohibited (still am today) taking caffeine, alcohol and chocolate. But I don't take the meds anymore it's been 3 yrs with no episodes, I am truly greatful, your profession is very important I am now 2 subjects shy of a law degree.
That makes so much sense I was depressed first then I experienced hypo sexual behaviour and I forgot about it .then went back into depression again and back to hypo sexual behaviour again. I'm stable now I'm scared that I will behave like before it was considered shameful and disgusting by the community
I am depression predominant and was treated with Carbamazepine. It did nothing. I found out anecdotally from fellow patients that Lamotrigine helped with their depressive bipolar and my accommodating psychiatrist agreed to give it a try. I was in remission a month later and it gave me my life back, so it worries me that the FDA have made this decision as I know how well it can work.
I definitely have to watch out more for mania than depression. Depression is fairly common, but it can't get worse or more frequent like Mania can depending on my lifestyle choices.
I relate with this video a lot. For a while I never thought I had bi polar because I would never get manic but if I took adderal or anti depressants without mood stabilizers I would always get manic. Turned out after trying med after med after med lamotrogine has been a god send for treating my depressive bi polar. Best med I’ve taken for bi polar with least amount of side effects.
I love her videos
I spend a lot more time in depression than mania. And getting my meds right took over a year and a lot of trial and error. I also always have worse depression in the winter months. So that complicates things. I also have ADHD and an axiety disorder. So that's fun. It took quite a while to get my med combo to treat everything. I'm finally not depressed. My ADHD is treated, so I can focus on life, and my anxiety is under control. I'm on antipsychotics, stimulant ADHD meds, and 2 different antidepressants that work a bit different to eachother. Latuda has been the best med for my bipolar symptoms so far. And it calmed my anxiety a bunch. I finally feel better without feeling like I want to crawl out of my own skin. I haven't been getting those horrible mixed episodes. I finally feel human again. My depressive episodes are much shorter and much more mild. And I haven't experienced the delusions or auditory hallucinations that come with bad manic episodes. I haven't experienced more than mild hypomania rarely for a good long time. I'd say that I get mild ups and downs now. And I feel like I can actually live my life.
I was diagnosed with treatment resistant depression for 2 decades, then after a psychiatric ward admission I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder. Now considered to be rapid cycling.
I was on antidepressants on & off for years. Now psychiatrists say I need to avoid antidepressants.
Thank you beautiful woman, always bombarding us with knowledge as usual, May God Bless you beauty
You are so welcome. 🙏🏽❤️
I learned that my polarity is depression dominant & my psych has had me on lamotragine for 3 years now…🙃
Thank you for the content
I'm in therapy and I'm currently taking several meds (Depakote, Hydroxyzine,Colonidine,Paxil,and Melanine)...
❤great video
If possible please make a video on how agitated unipolar mejor depression(where persistent feeling of restlessness and a sence of intense inner tension are the core symptoms) and unipolar mdd with mix features can be diagnosed separately and what similarities they share ??
I believe the pattern is different for each patient
Thank you for your video! What is your opinion on being on bipolar meds during pregnancy? I've been stable for years. On low dose lamotrigine and valporate. What is your general expert opinion on stopping psych meds during pregnancy and restarting them after breastfeeding? (All in accordance with one's psychiatrist of course.)
I seem to be angry and or frustrated more than half of the time ..
For the last two years, I have taken 300-350 mg quetiapine and 20 mg vortioxetine every night, and it is the best combination ever.
If I get too "high", I take 25-100 mg extra quetiapine + sleeping and relaxing medicine, and it works every time.
I have had bipolar 1 for decades, starting out with a beautiful epiphany as a teenager. Many depressions, much suffering, lots of different kinds of medicine, but I got an education and a family too and was working part time.
I guess the danger of trigging hypomania, mania, mixed state or rapid cycling is little, if you take antipsychotics too.
I do get high quite often, it feels wonderful, and I know what is happening to me.
I know I MUST SLEEP!!!
I always stay at home alone, when I am high, dance a couple of hours and do all I can to sleep.
It works every time, so I wake up next day quite "normal".
I have these overwhelming intense, happy, sensual experiences, which actually enriche my life.
I hope the same for all of you.
Bipolar depression is hard to treat, but vortioxetine has helped me and two other persons, I know, with bipolar disorder.
Does quetiapine cause alot of weight gain?
Love your videos- can you discuss treating GAD in BPAD pts. This is seen in practice commonly. Thanks!
Hi Dr Tracy! Thank you for your work - it empowers me truly. My name is Sean. Could you please consider doing a video on how mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder, medication such as epilim or resperidal have a connection to memory and cognitive decline? I am a university student and it seems that ever since I was on my medication my attention skills, intelligence and memory have sunk. I forget things within seconds. I have shortness of attention and it feels as if there are holes in my thinking. Are there any solutions for these in terms of my mental condition and medication? I would really appreciate it, thank you!
This information scares me to death, because 1 out of 10 psychiatrists diagnosed me with bipolar disorder in the past. Later it was debunked, but I feel like I'm always holding my breath thinking ''what if he were right / what if become bipolar?''
But im suffering from both BIPOLAR 2 and OCD wt do u suggest for me? Till now im on SSRI's pnly which is for OCD as im not diagnosed for Bipolar 2 yet
i don’t have 2x the amount of depressive episodes but my depressive episodes do last much longer than hypomanic or mixed states. my cycle seems to be hypomania for around 2 weeks then depression for 2 months then hypomanic again. i experienced on and off depressive episodes for about a year and a half before my first hypomanic. i haven’t had a “stable” (nor depressed or manic) episode since my first hypomanic either, the closest i have is periods where my depression becomes mild before hypomania . i do consider myself depression predominant though as my depression is far more debilitating than my hypomania, i always say the problem with hypomania isn’t how i feel it’s what i do. i may not be technically “depression predominant” but it definitely is the part that impacts my life the most. thinking about that would any mixed episodes (i have only had one so far) be categorised as time towards mania and/or depression? or completely separate? plus is it possible to experience true mania only when in a mixed state, with hypomania being my pure “high”? and would this change my diagnosis to bipolar 1? i ask this as my psychiatrist has recently noted my mixed episode as “psychotic mixed mania” not “psychotic mixed hypomania”, she’s professional with labels always describing my episodes as hypomania, so this took me by surprise. is this just standard practise? i always thought people with bipolar 1 were more mania predominant whereas bipolar 2 depression predominant. i’m waiting for her report but this will take a few weeks and i’m just really impatient, i want to know what’s going on with me😂
Hello Doc, beautiful necklace!
i'd like a video of psychosis in BPD, there is so much chaos around it
My family member is often in hypomania/mania. He is hardly depressed unless he is coming off an episode or misses doses of lamictical. 😢
Video suggestion: Bipolar and heredity and or pregnancy 🤷🏽♀️
you put out good videos
Thank you
Love the necklace
last year i was diagnosd with bipolar after having what seemed to be a manic episode. well, it was full-blown mania, with psychotic symptoms as well. the thing is that, i'm a post-op trans woman, and i had gone through a period where my estrogen intake wasn't regular. i've read some articles that say estrogen has an antipsychotic effect, and that women in menopause and after giving birth may experience bipolar manic and depressive episodes when the estrogen drops suddenly. i wonder if my manic episode was caused by fluctuations in my estrogen levels, and if my hormone therapy can prevent, or cause, manic psychosis to occur in the future.
Why do I have such a hard time with keeping a full time job ?
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The depression I live with , moves between …mostly being flat . My reflective response to how are you ,is poor to average . Sadly that is my hi-point , from there most of the time …I’ll go down to miserable no energy no motivation no interest . Sleeping a-lot .💔
I would love to good sometimes , but that is rare … and doesn’t happen for more than an hour . And it only happens once in a few months .
I need serious help as I'm getting inconsistent talks between multiple psychiatrist throughtout on base(military) clinic, inpatient from ER and 28. Day inpatient. A couple have considered bipolar II and one has actually diagnosed me. But my last inpatient wrote : " depressive disorder unspecified r/o bipolar disorder r/o personality disorder unspecified. I don't understand the whole rule out thing and it's upsetting me very much. Thank you for reading. Was recently taken off effexor 225 and lamictal increase to 400 after a hypomanic episode during inpatient
Can you make a full video on the polarity in humans so we know more how this works?
I was diagnosed with BD but my therapist doesn't seem to agree with the diagnosis because he hasn't seen any symptoms of hypomania so I didn't had it at all or I had it but didn't tell him (says him). Apparently every psychiatrist or therapist I ever had doesn't know a thing, they just expect me to diagnose myself and make a treatment for me alone while paying them. My memory is like crap and I can't figure if I'm hypomanic or just happy or just with anxiety or just anger, like, I know some things are not normal but when I tell people they say "everyone's like this". I'm not normal enough to be considered normal but I'm not "crazy" enough to have a label that I can use to find the best treatment for me. I can't function but I'm alive and not psychotic so I guess there isn't anything wrong with me? Guess it's super normal to treat a depression that goes away for a couple of days or maybe months and then return and then they increase the meds and it gets better but then it returns again and then you get 3 good days, 1 week existing with low energy and 3 days super depressed and it keeps circling back and it's almost previsible. I'm really beginning to hate medical professionals!!!
The last time I took an antidepressant it elevated me too much until I was in quite a surreal state, but this only lasted about ten days and I crashed down really badly (still taking the antidepressant) and got more and more ill until someone who knew what was going on said "it's those pills!" I stopped taking them and the depression evaporated. In other words the antidepressant made things a LOT worse, and it wasn't a mixed state it was just depression. And it wasn't a case of taking pills and getting worse before I got better. I got worse and worse until I stopped the pills. Nasty!!
Hi Tracey, in your ADHD playlist, could you please make a video that addresses problems on managing time WITH your mind being distracted? what can the person do? Thank you so much in advance!
Thank you for the video! I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I have a question for you. I am diagnosed with bipolar type 2 and sometimes I question my diagnosis and feel like going off of my medication. My doctor and therapist have advised me not to do so while being very understanding of my feelings. Based of what they said, if I go off of my meds there is a risk that the episodes I was experiencing could be even worse. I wanted to know why that is. If I try going off my meds at some point, does this mean my episodes will be more severe for some reason? Is it because bipolar disorder gets worse with age or is it just that when you go off of meds it can trigger an episode? Thank you for taking the time to read this and for making all of your amazing content. You've really helped me.
Can bipolar be rapid cycling? I mean can you have mania for example 2 days then suddenly depression for example 3 days, then mania for few days, then depression for few days?
I believe i am manic predominant but was only recently diagnosed with bipolar this year. Looking back on periods of my life its very obvious to me when i was having manic episodes but it doesnt register with me at the time that I'm manic. I can definitely tell when i am having a depressive episode. My doctor put me on Latuda and i have felt so numb ever since. I think my brain registers the lack of mania or hypomania as depression because that's what I'm used to.
Lamotrogine put me in my first physcotic episode and caused tartive dyskenisia. That medicine litterally almost killed me. I got off of it ofcourse with help from my doctor and now on seroquil and doing great! Always pay attention to side effects. My doctor has been through hell with me getting my symptoms straight
For me it was abilify that put me in a psychotic state I see medications work differently for everyone hope you’re doing better now ❤
thanks for your info on bipolar. do you have any info why we attracts people with narrcist behavior ? I'm so tired to always get in that situasjon. I have bipolar and it is not that is hard but relationships. sorry for writing errors
Hi Dr. Tracey! Three of my sisters have mental disorders. One was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of twelve. In their 30's, the other two sisters were diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Some doctors claim they suffer from bipolar disorder, while others claim they suffer from schizophrenia. Could you please make a video showing the difference between the symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder? Is it possible to have both mental disorders at the same time?
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