I have two questions: What is a mixed

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I have two questions: What is a mixed
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Sat, 04-09-2005 - 2:59pm
episode and why are psychotic episodes? I am just looking for answers because I am curious about the first and have been having really scary dreams/slip from reality/i don't know what that seemed to be related to my evening med. (Geodon at the dose pdoc recommend I take at night because I can't handle it during the day)
 
 
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Sat, 04-09-2005 - 6:18pm

I new to this, just dx about a month and a half ago, but when I started having scary dreams it was not a good thing. I told me pdoc and she added another medication to my mix. I was even scared to go to bed with the lightts off and walk to the back of my house with the lights off. It took about 2 weeks for it work well enough.

I could tell you the definition but I can't seem to tell the differnce between a mixed episode or just ultra fast cycling. I'm sure someone else will have more detailed information.

Vista


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Mon, 04-11-2005 - 11:30pm

I've been in a mixed state since about January. It's frustrating because basicially what you're doing is cycling very, very rapidly and you're stressed out to the point of no return. At the time, my medications were keeping me from performing well at school, I was at school when I could be, I was working five nights a week and my weekends were filled with rehearsals for the play last week and work. Quite often, I had thoughts of SI-ing myself and I was depressed beyond belief. I couldn't get out of bed in the morning if I wanted to or not - my medications would keep me sedated well into the morning - which then screwed over a ton of my classes and it's only been resently I've been able to even start catching up and Please keep in mind my school year ends April 29th.

So, now that the play is over and I got through a lot of the panic attacks that happened as a result (I swear I'm a massisist - the whole excersise of doing that play was to get over my ex and by the end of the week I was smoking like a chimeny...but hey, but Thursday I quit crying), I feel like I got it out and I'm ready to start pushing to the end of school and hopefully passing the best I can. The good news with that is most of my classes have agreed to extentions into May for me to finish the major projects that need to be done in order to pass the classes.

Mixed states are no fun, but with patience, you get through it. I'm pulling for you.

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Mon, 04-11-2005 - 11:44pm
Thanks for the reply. Do you have manic points too or just the depressive side of things? Just still trying to get a handle on everything. If anything, I have only had hypomanic episodes. Now, depression, mood swings and anger I know all about, LOL.
 
 
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Tue, 04-12-2005 - 12:54pm

Basicially, in a mixed state, you have very present symptoms of a manic episode while you're depressed. A good example of this would be when I'd be at work before the play, and they kept putting me in the store where too much had happened to me as of recent (my ex walking by, the scam, my boss insulting me, etc) and almost everytime, I would get extremely frustrated to the point were I was panicing and the SI thoughts would come into play, but at the same time, my work got done.

(Remind me to talk to my boss this week about that. That was unfair.)

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Tue, 04-12-2005 - 1:55pm

Wow, I often feel like what you described but didn't think of it as a mixed episode. I was wondering why my depressions seem so different from each other, though. Lately I've been completely apathetic, unmotivated, not caring about a single thing...didn't even have the energy to act on any self-destructive thoughts.

But more often, I've had depressions where I have a lot of agitated energy, and during those sometimes, I have done impulsive things. I didn't have a pdoc for part of that time...but when I described them to my current pdoc, I think she lumped them together as depression with anxiety. I wonder how to tell the difference between that and a mixed episode...

Sorry, rambling...thanks for your post,

Rose