Comments on: Bipolar Disorder Q&A: Can Antidepressant Withdrawal Cause Bipolar Symptoms?

By: veronica

veronica — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:35:05 +0000

i am bipolar and i take the antidepressant latuda and prozac both have worked well. but there is a bad thing of taking this medecines that sometimes i have my blood pressure very high,i dont know if is one of the medecines or i create this by panicking too much.

By: Bobbi J

Bobbi J — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:00:39 +0000

My Doctor just told me that I have BiPolar II, yet I still don’t believe that I have ever gone ‘manic’. My good mood usually comes about when I taper off the more sedating medications- I feel like I can be who I have been in the past- not a ‘queen’. My transitions from one to another antidepressants almost always have me in the hospital because I have such withdrawal- is it bipolar? or does my body need a few weeks to adjust?

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By: alan

alan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:50:24 +0000

Some anti depressants actually provide chemicals naturaly produced in the brain. Once the brain realises it doesnt need to produce these chemicals it can remain dormant in their production so when the chemical or anti depressant is removed it may take the brain a long time to adjust so all drug changes should be taken slowly to prevent the drug actualy causing problems on removal.Cold turkey is never a good move. It is possible to cause a temporary illness with mental health drugs.

By: vivianja

vivianja — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:07:06 +0000

My brother and I both suffer from unipolar depression, and both went through a situation where we were MISdiagnosed as bipolar, taken off antidepressants and put on bipolar meds. This med change made us act as if we were bipolar. It was very frustrating for us and our families, and was a major medical ordeal, involving months of treatment and time off work, hospitalization for him, because he even became suicidal. It is so frustrating for us because these alleged physicians took one little aspect of our personalities and decided we were bipolar, then made us sicker.

Thankfully we are both healthy now, and back on good antidepressants. Our families are fully informed and aware of what medications and diagnoses we have and need, and never again will we allow a doctor to push us around.

By: Noel Najem

Noel Najem — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:03:09 +0000

My brother went into a small depression after he broke his relationship with his Girlfriend. The doctor put him on cipralex and within a year he was back to normal. after one year and as per his doctor’s instructions. he stoped taken the cipralex. after 2 monthes from stopping this medication he starts feeling again the insomnia, anxiety, his apetite is reduced he can’t eat and he spent his time in thinking and thinking in i donno what ideas came to his mind.

he went back to his doctor and he put him again under Cipralex for at least 5 monthes.

N.B he is facing some stressfull moment in his life due to work reason.

do u think that the withdrawl of cipralex has caused this effect so he has to go back to it? and until when a person should take this medication couldn’t be stopped one day???