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After being prescribed Paxil for my depression, I vaulted into my first manic episode. Anti depressants can induce mania through a process called affective switching where a patient’s mood shifts from depression to an abnormally elevated state. Mania is a state of abnormally elevated energy, emotion, or irritability lasting at least a week, characterized by…
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When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize thst you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you’ve just wandering a few feet off the path, that you will find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again,…
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After my first bipolar episode, I was able to maintain a balance with the help of family, friends, doctors and medication. Unfortunately during my manic period, I left a successful radio career and joined a professional sports team as VP of Sales and Marketing. This proved to be an unwise decision and I had to…
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Its a Friday afternoon and all went well in the words of my lawyer. I watched the judge say that I was not criminally responsible for the 3 charges against me based on being in a manic phase. The words seemed to come out of his mouth in slow motion as I relished and truly…
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A rush of emotions came over me tonight. A flashback to everything that has happened in my life. I sit alone in the hospital cafeteria and look around at the people who suffer from some form of mental illness from generalized anxiety disorder to schizophrenia to bipolar disorder. And then I start to think about…
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I just didn’t feel right. My knowledge of bipolar disorder was limited. But it all started with a depression. I visited my family doctor and after having me fill out a Beck Depression Inventory test, he informed me that I was in a clinical depression. I was prescribed Paxil and was told that it should…
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After spending 4 months in the psychiatric ward of the Valleyfield hospital, I was released and was able to rent a room at the home of a friend. After a lengthy manic episode in the summer and fall of 2023, I crashed due to the fact that if you are in a manic phase for…
