Posted by linkadge on March 18, 2011, at 12:20:13
In reply to Re: Its not just us, posted by Toph on March 18, 2011, at 10:19:21
>Hope? Yes. Results? Definitely. What's next? >Unfortuneately we're back to hope.
What do you mean, the medications stopped working for your daughter? Also, to play the devils advocate...people do get better while on medications, what we'd like to know is how often the medication is responsible.
>Incidently I am bipolar I and find it dubious >that an antidepressant can induce a unipolar >depressant into a permanent bipolar condition as >McMan suggests.
It doesn't need to be perminanat. It just needs to be long enough for the doctor to conlcude you're bipolar and stick you on mood stabilizers to be taken indefinately.
Also, manic episodes can cause perminant damage to the brain. There are many medical cases of where damage to the brain results in affective instability. Alzheimers patients are not necessarily bipolar, but some of the neurological deterioration is associated with inability to proprerly regulate a range of emotions.
Antidepressant use is associated with loss of grey and white matter. Bipolar patients have deficicts in cortical grey matter, and some researchers hypothesize this affects the ability of patients to regular emotion.
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