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Many doctors are hesitant to put people with bipolar disorder on antidepressants because of possibly cycling into the mania. While doctors treat the manic phase of the mood disorder, they are often remiss in treating the depressive side for fear they will trigger the manic side. Lately in the news one is hearing more and more warnings for instance about Paxil and bad side effects on teenagers. Makes one wonder if some of these teenagers are actually bipolar and are suffering bipolar depression and are being given an antidepressant without a mood stabilizer and creating worse symptoms...What a way to get diagnosed! What a way to get misdiagnosed! What a tragic way for more doctors to become more careful about investigating bipolar disorder and not assuming that an antidepressant is all that is needed.
Advances are being made. Less reliance is being placed on the standard and relatively inexpensive lithium and movement is toward the anticonvulsants..the crossover drugs that are primarily used for epilepsy. As they appear to be helping many bipolar suffers, some researchers are beginning to believe there is a connection between the two disorders.
I have asked 10 different people about there views on anti depressants and from what i gathered they feel that its a bad idea for anti depressants. They feel that using anti depressants with bipolar disorder is a very bad idea and say that it just makes there disorder much worse and harder to cope with. I f you have a view about this please pm me on yahoo at steve_highlander alternatively you can write your view in my guest book.