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Some Thought I Was Getting Manic. But How Was I Not Supposed To Be Jumping Up And Down?

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Posted 5/9/2020 2:40 PM (GMT 0)
I had always been a nervous and jumpy person.

But in 2001, I was put on several psychiatric medications, as I was dealing with severe depression and other mental health issues at the time.

And while these pills helped me with my depression, at the same time, they made me even more nervous. Real anxious.

But in 2009, I was finally put on new meds. Also, during that time, I was seeing a therapist who was trained in a newer form of psychotherapy called EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.

As a result, my terrible anxieties suddenly went way down. I was finally calm!

I was very, very happy, as you can imagine. So happy that some people in my life were worried that I was getting manic.

However, I had been dealing with awful anxieties for years that suddenly disappeared. I had good reason to be happy. How was I not supposed to be jumping up and down?
Posted 5/10/2020 12:25 AM (GMT 0)
It's good that you seemed to have found something that works.

It seems that they treated the depression in 2001. Were they finally treating the mania in 2009?

Was the jumping up and down mania or were you just happy?

Is there any bipolar in your family. I got mine from my mother's mother, who was bipolar before they knew what it was, and just called it schizophrenia.

But then they didn't have any medicine for either of that in the 1930s and 1940s, so she basically went untreated in a mental hospital.

So we can appreciate the fact that they do have medicine now for bipolar, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and other such conditions. We can be very glad.

My grandmother would go into people's medicine cabinets looking for a pill that would calm her down from the ravages of bipolar. Now we just go to the drug store.

For my bipolar, I take Lithium for the mania and Mirtazapine for the depression. Those were the pills my grandmother was longing for.
Posted 5/10/2020 12:48 AM (GMT 0)
Jump!! HT
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