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08/05/2008 09:20
Arual001
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 Hello all... I am bipolar and have mixed episodes rather than typical mania. I would love to find others who suffer this as well. Everything you hear about bipolar talks about the typical mood swings, but mixed states are not recognized in general. This is a bummer...anyone know what I mean?
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08/05/2008 09:25
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 Welcome...Arual...glad you joined the group. I am pretty sure there are folks here who have experienced mixed episodes. I tend toward the manic myself.

Hope you make yourself at home. Feel free to join in the discussions, start discussions, or visit with us in the Lounge section...

"In the time of your life, live-so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but, shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it." William Saroyan
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08/05/2008 10:12
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 Hey Aural! I have mixed states myself, and if you take a look under my previous posts you'll note I asked the same question. I found a few others just like us here, but you'll find we all have a surprisingly lot in common...even never having had full blown mania.

Anyway, I'd love to chat. PM me if you want to. Ciao!

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08/05/2008 14:33
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 I've never heard of mixed states bipolar.

Anyone care to elaborate on that for me? As we all know I'm lazy and hate looking things up. (More that I am at work at the moment and don't have time)

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08/05/2008 14:48
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 I experienced a mixed state this last December. It was the scariest thing for me. I ended up in the Hospital, and then stayed at the Phospital for a week. All I wanted to do was to make it stop. I can't imagine having to deal with that on a regular basis.

Arual, do the Pdocs have you on good meds so you don't have to deal with the scariness of it, or doesn't it affect you like that?

Lady, a mixed state is having symptoms of mania and depression both at the same time. That's a simplistic definition, maybe Arual can explain better.

Welcome Arual!!!

J-ROCK, it ain't AM, it ain't FM, she's BP all the way!
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08/05/2008 14:55
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 A mixed state is what finally led my pdoc to my bipolar diagnosis. It sucks. I am sorry you are going through it. A mixed state for me was anxiousness, part paranoria and feeling as if I could die and no one would care. It gave me a lot of energy in a negative and scary way. I was seriously suicidal and thought I was losing my mind. I finally got on a good mood stabilizer (lamictal) and they tapered down my antidepressant. I have been level for a while, but remember that isolation. PM me if you think no one has will understand because I will remind you a lot of folks live there.
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
The leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

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08/06/2008 07:10
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 I take Lamictal as well, along with other things. Here's the full list: Lamictal, Cymbalta, Ativan, Triliphon. The latest addition has been the Triliphon which has been very helpful with disturbing thoughts. Though it seems weird to be taking a typical antipsychotic when there are so many new meds. I tried abilify, though, and it made me feel like ripping my skin off. (Sorry for the grotesque description.)I think this combo is working the best of all to date, but i still wake up with a feeling of dread, 9 out of 10 days. It is too bad because i have two beautiful girls.
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08/06/2008 07:13
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 Mixed states are when depressin and mania occur together. Sometimes I am paralyzed physically but tormented by horrible racing thoughts, other times i rage and feel impulses to self harm. I can't sleep, but i can't get anything done either, I don't feel depressed in the normal way but just terrible, scared.
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08/06/2008 07:16
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 I feel for you sweetie, I know that's an awful feeling. Have you tried a therapist that can help you with the thoughts? I can't remember what the therapy is called (darned meds) but they help you stop the bad thoughts and replace them with better ones. For some people, it's very effective. Oh, cognitive therapy, I think that's it.

I've just started Lithium, yeah, it's an old drug, but it seems to work the best for me. I tend toward manic and rapid cycling, with the occasional mixed thrown in.

Good luck to you and I hope the meds start working better!

J-ROCK, it ain't AM, it ain't FM, she's BP all the way!
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08/06/2008 08:43
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 I think half the time I don't realise the things I'm feeling are symptoms of my Bipolar. Of course, as I interact with others on this site, and I am constantly reading up on whatever I can find, I start to realise things…it's like a light goes on and I'm finally like "oh, okay, THAT'S what that was!"

Like Aural said - there's focussed a lot on manic episodes on this site (and others), and the depressive episodes are usually mentioned in passing (the posts I've read, anyway), but nothing much about mixed states. I've never experienced Bipolar in any other way, and I have to say that I know for a fact I am doing a lot better since being stable on meds, but from time to time I go through a period where nothing feels right, I feel trapped in my own skin. I want to get out and at the same time I just want to crawl into bed and stay there. I don't even know how to put it into words. Now I try to just ride it out, because it never lasts. Nothing lasts forever…and while this may be seen as a negative thing, when what you're experiencing is negative… It's just one more mantra to help you get out alive on the other side.

It's the strangest thing - I'm going through the two worst things of the year…even longer than that: living on my own for the first time, and the knowledge that any day now I could (I repeat COULD, doesn't mean I will) lose my job (through retrenchment)…and I'm surprisingly calm. And I credit a lot of that to the people on this site - there's nothing like holding it together when you know there's someone to catch you when you fall.

Aural, again, welcome - I know you'll come to love the people on this site as much as I do.

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