Is it possible to only have a maniac episode while on antidepressants?
Hello! In desperate need of help, I have a doctors appointment coming but they can’t see me for a couple weeks (doctor on vacation) and I’m worried.
In my early teens I was put on antidepressants and had what was suspected by my old psychiatrist to be a maniac episode. I was not officially diagnosed because I was apparently too young at the time but I was hospitalized. I am now 28 and was re-started on antidepressants via my university health centre by a different psychiatrist and I suspect I am having one again. I sleep for only about an hour a night for over a month and am still very wired and energetic, I am spending like crazy money I don’t have in the thousands which is so unusual for me and am having racing thoughts to the point I cannot comprehend anything I listen to.
Between that first episode in my early teens and now I never had another episode despite smoking cannabis frequently in my late teens (I don’t anymore) and taking prescribed stimulant medication as I am also diagnosed with adhd for years. I’m not taking my adhd medication now and last did about four months ago (before suspected episode started).
Is it possible mania can only be triggered by antidepressants? Or if I had bipolar it would have been triggered before this? Do I have reason to be concerned or is this just anxiety? Thanks for any advice!