Bi Polar on top of Aspergers

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I'm sure a lot of you have seen my posts in the haven the past few months, about how I'm sick of life, want to die, but too afraid to end it myself. Well there probably is a lot of truth to that anyway...I don't have a lot of interests, am sick of douchebags, tv commercials (they all blow), bad modern sitcoms and the like...and part of me just wishes I was never born and put in this world...but the excess bad moods are probably being caused by bi polar.

I tried something new tonight (with my doctor's permission) and didn't take my medication at all (and will take it when I naturally fall asleep whenever I wake up) to try to take it at a different time. The past several hours, I've been "up" almost manically, like if it were daytime and no one was home, I'd be dancing around to music. Don't feel tired one bit.

I'm going to find a new psychatrist (my doctor recommended a few offices) and make sure I'm treated for it instead of just generic depression. My doctor seems to think (just a theory) that the Prozac might be making the manic "lows" even worse.

Hey niles, are you familiar with the "Icarus Project?" It's a mutual aid group, kind of like a wrongplanet for bipolarity.

They have a lot of conversations about meds and psychiatrists, and like wrongplanet they look at the ositive aspects of bipolarity as well as the drawbacks.

Seems like you'll be up for a while tonight anyway:

link to: http://theicarusproject.net/

Thanks, I favorited it. What I find interesting, just from browsing it, is that there are common threads with Aspergers and Bi Polar in general. What I mean is, I'm a visual thinker, and it seems other people on WP are too. For instance, I can go to beautiful places in my head when I'm in the right mood and it says on there bi polars experience it too.

Yeah, for adults a common misdiagnosis for AS is some cocktail of ADHD, OCD, Bipolar and Anxiety. There's a lot of overlapping symptoms.

I learned about Bipolar when I was trying to fit what was "weird" in my head, and learned about Icarus as a result. There was a local group in my area, they have little mutual aid discussion groups scattered here and there.

At first, there was a lot of "I do that," but I don't have manic highs for no reason, and don't hallucinate when I'm excited. I just get excited about making things (special interest), so when I make things sometimes I can hit a high energy state and ride it with intense focus for days.

I think the really cool thing is their approach to meds. They have a lot of experience base built up with natural ways to mediate the mood swings, but aren't totally pro-meds or anti-meds.

nilescrane, out of all the medications I've tried this year (I'm bipolar - Ultradian, and Aspergers too), the only ones that worked for the bipolar and weren't actually detrimental were mood stabilizers, specifically Lithium and Valproate.

Look, if you're trying anti-depressants and are not on a mood stabilizer then GET OFF THEM. They do weird and atypical things to people with bipolar - anti-depressants actually both made my depressions much longer and much worse AND caused me to have psychomotor agitation so extreme it was the equivalent of having some sort of fit.

The smartest thing I did all year was to see a psychiatrist who advertised himself as a bipolar specialist - in fact the only bipolar specialist in my city. He was expensive, sure, but it was worth every cent. Do not see an Aspergers specialist about bipolar symptoms - I made that mistake, and was put on ritalin, Lovan (an anti-depressant), etc because she thought my symptoms may just be untreated ADHD - and these medications were absolutely terrible for me. I don't blame her, as she was looking at things from the Asperger's perspective, and bipolar is a very complex and huge spectrum disorder (with such great variation in presentation), plus there is such common misdiagnosis between the two the first thing an Asperger's specialist will think is that the bipolar is actually just Aspergers symptoms.