Posted by SLS on June 15, 2014, at 10:50:19
In reply to Re: Different types of depression, posted by Beckett on June 15, 2014, at 1:27:34
> I did some reading and come to agreement with the ideas posted about treating symptoms and that most do not fit the into a category of the 'classic case'. About myself, I present mostly atypical symptoms right now, but I do have melancholic features, too, such as terrible mornings, diminished reactivity, and some anhedonia. The melancholic symptoms seem to indicate a worsening of the depression, and at it's most severe, I am completely (I think) melancholic. Atypical usually accompanies BPII, which I have, but I do not have any idea why the two go together, and I imagine few people do.
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> Anyways, that's my story. I really would like to hear someone else's. I'm tired of mine.I think bipolar depression often appears as a hybrid of atypical and melancholic depressions, with atypical symptomatology more often predominating. In my experience, melancholia played a greater role early in my history, while cognitive impairments worsened later on. Unfortunately, cognitive impairments began unusually early for me.
It is an interesting idea that the symptomatology of someone's baseline depression can be influenced by exposure to drugs.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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