u/balsamicvinegarar

Hi there, i’m 20F and have suspected bipolar disorder by my therapist. I recently had what I believe is a hypomanic episode after starting a SSRI.

I was becoming increasingly paranoid and hallucinating and promptly crashed after about a week. I’m now feeling incredibly low and shitty. I spoke to the GP about this and they want me to stop ssris and measure my “ natural baseline” to assess for an underlying mood disorder.

The thing is, i have had episodes like this before of what i’m starting to understand is hypomania and depressive episodes. My depressive episodes typically last a while, and I only have a week to track a mood diary. He said it was to measure my “ natural baseline” with no SSRI but i’m struggling to see how this will give them the full picture ? Any help would be much appreciated !

Hi there, I’m honestly looking for some advice as I suspect I may have bipolar but i’m worried i’m overthinking it ? I’m 20F, and since moving away from home I have experienced periods of social isolation and depression, followed by periods where I am confident, energetic, productive, where my creative ideas are flowing, ect. I didn’t even question this until learning about bipolar disorder at university and realising i saw myself in it.

I usually do sleep in these periods of happiness but it’s very fragmented ( Sleeping at 4AM to 12pm some nights, barely sleeping others ect.) I just came home from university and experienced quite a severe depressive episode due to a hard family situation. I’m already diagnosed with depression. I had been coming off some antidepressants at this time and saw a GP who put me onto 20mg of citalopram. This was 6 days ago.

Since then, I have had incredibly fragmented sleep, i’ve become obsessed with drawing, i’m energetic, which has now turned into this irritability towards the people around me and I just want to sit in my room and draw. I had a weird experience yesterday where I became really paranoid, seeing things in the corner of my eyes and just feeling watched but this passed.

Nobody in my family is diagnosed with bipolar and I know how serious it can be. I don’t want to undermine anyone’s experience as I obviously am not diagnosed with this. I’m struggling to actually go to a GP because I can’t help but feel as if im making it up or something even though im not. Obviously I don’t have a diagnoses so I hope it’s okay to post this here and I will listen to anything people have to say, im just very lost on what to do. Thank you so much.

Hi, i’ve just started citalopram, like i’m literally on day two now, and I am looking to see if anyone has experienced anything similar to me. I’m 20 and have been put on it following a depressive episode. A couple hours after taking my first dose I felt literally wired, like so restless that I couldn’t sleep for the life of me last night. I know this is a fairly common side effect but I didn’t expect it to hit me within the first day of taking it. Nausea too. As well as this, I was incredibly paranoid last night. I kept feeling as if someone was watching me, I even had to close a door in the hallway as the shelf looked to me like someone peeking around the corner. Is this something to be concerned about or has anyone else experienced this when taking it? Thank you !!