Posted by Owen on February 17, 2003, at 15:09:33
In reply to Re: Reaction to missed doses, posted by linkadge on February 17, 2003, at 12:09:03
> The brain gets used to these meds weather you need them or not. If a non depressed person took
> an ssri for long enough they would expereience some withdrawl from abrupt discontinuation.Thanks, that's good to know. So my depression might actually be gone for real, not just held in check by the SSRI?
> You need to taper as much as possible.
I did say I was going to get off the medication gradually. The abrupt discontinuation was not intentional.
> What I'm concerned about is the reaction that
> you did have. Having grandiose delusions, and thought racing are symptoms of bipolar.During the course of my illness I was never really manic. I did have mood upswings, but they seemed quite appropriate. My therapist decided not to consider it bipolar. I heard that racing thoughts are quite typical when a person with ADD develops a depression-like mood disorder.
Were these really delusions and not in touch with reality? Hard to tell. I know that I am unusually talented in many fields, I just can't bring it to practice most of the time because of chronic procrastination (I now know it's ADD). When I do manage to focus and finish things they can be quite extraordinary.
I have only recently been diagnosed with ADD. I am not taking any stimulants yet. Anyone has any recommendations?
O.
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