21yrsurvivor
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I was diagnosed with bipolar 1 almost a year ago at the age of 30. I started getting help to treat my bipolar around November but found out that the medication was not working, so I finally got placed on Lamictal and Buspar as my everyday medication. I also suffer from terrible anxiety and was place on 2 different medications to help treat the anxiety attacks as they came.
I became pregnant in June and right away my anxiety rescue meds could no longer be taken. I suffer everyday with anxiety. My mood has been all over the place and definitely not like my typical personality or mood. I have been very argumentive, negative, and have had the mouth of sailor lately. I feel very sorry for myself because I feel like I'm causing my family to go nuts with my sudden change in attitude. One minute I'll be content and the next I fly off the handle and get very short tempered (of course there's a long story behind my temper)
I suffer from "rapid cycling" which is when you have many manic to depressive episodes within a certain time. When I'm manic you don't care what others around you think and you go to the beat of your own drum. When I become depressed, your whole world feels like its collapsing around you and that you are to blame for everything.
I know that pregnancy brings sudden changes that effect your hormones, but does anyone on here suffer with bipolar and currently feel the same or have the same struggles?
I became pregnant in June and right away my anxiety rescue meds could no longer be taken. I suffer everyday with anxiety. My mood has been all over the place and definitely not like my typical personality or mood. I have been very argumentive, negative, and have had the mouth of sailor lately. I feel very sorry for myself because I feel like I'm causing my family to go nuts with my sudden change in attitude. One minute I'll be content and the next I fly off the handle and get very short tempered (of course there's a long story behind my temper)
I suffer from "rapid cycling" which is when you have many manic to depressive episodes within a certain time. When I'm manic you don't care what others around you think and you go to the beat of your own drum. When I become depressed, your whole world feels like its collapsing around you and that you are to blame for everything.
I know that pregnancy brings sudden changes that effect your hormones, but does anyone on here suffer with bipolar and currently feel the same or have the same struggles?